What is the ruling on organizing an online competition where an electronic prize is awarded, and participants are asked to download an application and open it for a specified period in exchange for the organizer receiving a sum of money for each download, knowing that the prize is purchased from the organizer's private funds and not from the money earned from the application? Does the ruling differ if the prize is purchased from the money earned from the competition? And is the participants' consumption of internet data considered a عوض (compensation) even though they pay nothing to enter?
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There is no harm in a competition where participation is free of charge. The requirement to download and open an application for a short period, which does not require effort or expense, does not affect it. Nor does the fact that the competition organizer will earn money from a source other than the participants affect it.
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