Is it permissible to describe an Islamic website that advertises on websites that violate Sharia as an Islamic website, and is it permissible for it to accept advertisements for websites that violate Sharia?
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It is permissible to place an advertisement for an Islamic website on another corrupt website, with the intention of reducing corruption and guiding people towards good. This is analogous to the permissibility of ransoming Muslim captives from disbelievers with money, where paying money is a means to achieve a predominant benefit. However, it is not permissible to place advertisements for deviant websites on an Islamic website, because that would be assisting in sin and aggression and inviting to misguidance, as Allah Almighty says: "And cooperate in righteousness and piety, but do not cooperate in sin and aggression."
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