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What is the Sharia ruling on the marketing system adopted by the "Gait" institution, which relies on the "circular method" for profit, with the claim of avoiding the suspicions raised about network marketing, and is it permissible to work with it?

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1. Discounts and free maintenance as an incentive to purchase goods: their ruling has been clarified in fatwas no. 100450 and no. 60398.

2. There is no objection to a marketing system that does not require purchasing the product to join, nor does the participant pay fees for it. The company pays the broker's commission, and it is not taken from the commission of those in his network. This has been clarified in fatwa no. 122370.

3. There is no objection to the second method, where the broker's commission is higher if he brings a customer according to specific criteria. This falls under the category of ju'ala (payment for a specific task), so the broker is entitled to the stipulated fee when he brings customers, as agreed upon.

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