Investing does not start with "which". It starts with three other questions.
When will I need this money?
Money you will need next year should not be invested. The reason is simple: over a short period nobody knows what an investment will do, so the moment you withdraw becomes the market's choice rather than yours.
As a rule of thumb: making an investment plan for less than five years is really not making a plan.
Is this money mine?
Investing with borrowed money doubles the risk: when the investment falls, the debt does not. This is not only a financial point — investing with interest-bearing debt compounds the problem the previous lesson described.
What happens if I lose it?
If you cannot answer that question, the amount is too large for you. The return an investment produces is the price of its risk; without risk there is no return. That is the next lesson.
Patience is a strategy
The most repeated mistake in investing is not making a decision — it is changing the decision too often. Selling on every fall and buying on every rise means running a long-term plan on short-term feeling.
Time is the most powerful factor in investing, and it cannot be bought. It is only earned by waiting.
The question of permissibility
"Is this investment halal?" is an important question, and a later phase of this site will be devoted to it. But it is the second question, not the first: make sure first that you have money to invest and that you can afford to lose it.
Barakah currently issues no ruling about any specific share, fund or product. That cannot be done without a Shariah Supervisory Board and a licensed data provider.