Is it permissible to work on a social platform project connecting merchants and investors, where the work is limited to facilitating their acquaintance, without guaranteeing the permissibility of the trade conducted by the merchants or the form of the investment contract between the two parties, and profit is derived from a fee paid by the user to access the site, knowing that the service may be used for both permissible and impermissible purposes alike?
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So long as the platform is not used for unlawful purposes, the default ruling concerning it is permissibility. This is unless it is known that it is predominantly used for unlawful purposes, in which case the ruling would then be based on what is predominant. As long as there is no overwhelming presumption regarding something, the default is permissibility, and one can act upon this until something becomes clear that necessitates moving away from it.
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