What is the ruling of Sharia on dealing with a company that allows the purchase of three papers for forty US dollars, and then selling them to others, with each of them obtaining three papers, resulting in a profit of up to eighty-five thousand US dollars when the sales chain reaches two thousand and more individuals?
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"Purchasing these papers is considered forbidden gambling, as the buyer may either win or lose, and this is the very definition of gambling. Allah Almighty says: 'O you who have believed, indeed, intoxicants, gambling, [sacrificing to] stone altars for idols, and divining arrows are but defilement from the work of Satan, so avoid it that you may be successful.' Gambling is any transaction in which a participant is either a winner or a loser, and a Muslim must avoid such practices."
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