20 December, 2023
Q
As-salaam `alaykum. Expensive scholar, what are the circumstances of community advertising?
Reply
Wa `alaykum as-Salamu wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh.
Within the Identify of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
All reward and thanks are on account of Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.
On this fatwa:
Community advertising is halal if:
- The commodities bought or traded in are permissible;
- The fee construction have to be disclosed with full transparency;
- Common contract necessities are noticed
In his response to your query, Prof. Dr. Monzer Kahf, Professor of Islamic Finance and Economics at Qatar School of Islamic Research, states:
Any transaction that entails devouring folks’s cash with out proper is totally rejected. Almighty Allah says, {O you who imagine! Squander not your wealth amongst yourselves in vainness, besides it’s a commerce by mutual consent, and kill not each other. Lo! Allah is ever Merciful unto you.} (An-Nisaa’ 4:29)
Islam additionally makes it clear that the topic of transaction should not be one thing haram. And it should steer clear of any type of deception or fraud. This displays Islam’s concern on preserving folks’s rights.
The paramedic community advertising is permissible with the next three circumstances:
- The commodities bought or traded in are themselves permissible equivalent to promoting actual items. Therefore, promoting phony and prohibited items makes the method prohibited.
- The fee construction have to be disclosed with full transparency to all new clients/members when they’re invited. In order that they know after they be part of that the one that invitations them has a stake on this invitation.
- Common contract necessities are noticed, equivalent to aptitude to contract, full description of the products, clear supply and cost course of, and so on. And in the event that they promote items that require particular further circumstances equivalent to gold that requires supply and full cost on the time of contract, such further circumstances should even be happy.
If these three circumstances are happy on this firm you ask about, its transactions are then permissible.
Allah Almighty is aware of greatest.
Editor’s notice: This fatwa is from Ask the Scholar’s archive and was initially revealed at an earlier date.