What is the ruling on establishing a website for uploading images and files, knowing that users may upload content that violates Islamic law, and would we bear the sin and burden for every file uploaded that violates Islamic law? Would this be considered spreading obscenity and cooperating in sin and aggression? What is the ruling if the website is exclusively for uploading images?
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It is not permissible to create a website that allows others to publish sins, because it will help spread forbidden acts. This is considered cooperation in sin and aggression, which is prohibited by Islamic law. The owner of the website will bear the sin whenever its evil spreads, even after his death. Instead, the website can be utilized to publish beneficial Islamic materials after reviewing them and ensuring their permissibility, so that this may be an ongoing charity and knowledge from which benefit is derived.
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