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What is the Islamic legal ruling on designing a program that displays the prices of metals, currencies, and stocks in global stock exchanges, and provides reports on their rise and fall, in exchange for a monthly subscription?

1 min readAlso available in العربية

Global stock markets, whether for metals, currencies, or stocks, mix the permissible with the impermissible. Therefore, it is not permissible to design a program that helps those dealing in them to conduct prohibited transactions, even by providing them with information, due to Allah's saying: "And do not cooperate in sin and aggression."

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