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Are the profits earned from financial participation in an Algerian institution specializing in building and selling housing units, where the shareholders' profit is predetermined, permissible or forbidden?

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This issue is closer to Mudarabah (profit-sharing partnership), which is permissible if it fulfills its conditions. The most important of these conditions are: that the capital is not guaranteed, and that the percentage of profit is from the actual profit. However, if the company pre-determines the profit by a fixed amount, then whether a profit is made or not, this transaction is forbidden and falls under the category of a loan with interest, because it involves returning to the contributor what they paid along with an increase, and this is precisely usury (riba).

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