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What is the ruling on financial intermediation between two parties to withdraw money from a website, knowing that the source of these funds may be from designing permissible things on a virtual site that contains Sharia violations, and is the gain from this intermediation forbidden or permissible? And in the event of its prohibition, what should be done with the gain and should the other intermediary be informed? And what is the ruling on the fee earned for creating an activated account on the same site?

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What your friend does by assisting in sins is a sin, but his acquired money is not unlawful according to the more preponderant opinion. Therefore, there is no harm upon you in mediating for its transfer if the operations are sharia-compliant. As for opening an account for him, it is not permissible if you predominantly believe he will use it for unlawful purposes, because that falls under cooperating in sin and aggression. And there is no harm in your fee from this mediation.

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