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Is it permissible for one business partner to bear the loss alone in a grocery store partnership where one partner contributes labor and receives one-third of the profit and one-third of the expenses and rent, while the other partner contributes capital and receives two-thirds of the profit?

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The working partner cannot be made to bear the loss of capital, unless he has been negligent or excessive, because his hand on the money is that of a trustee, and thus he is not liable. The loss is borne solely by the capital, and the worker bears no part of it. The Islamic Fiqh Academy has stipulated the invalidity of any condition that guarantees the worker's responsibility for the capital or for a fixed profit.

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