Is the cash prize earned from answering a street interviewer's question permissible or forbidden?
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If the competition is in a permissible matter, such as religious sciences or beneficial cultural knowledge, then there is no harm in taking the financial prize, as long as the participant did not pay anything to enter the competition.
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