What are the Sharia rulings for adding links to websites in a web directory, especially foreign websites, considering the following cases: 1. Informational websites that contain useful and permissible pages, but also include information about other religions or cultures, or scientific interpretations that may lean towards certain theories, or pictures of women, or drawings of creatures, or advertisements (such as AdSense advertisements, for which a fatwa has previously been issued prohibiting participation in them)? 2. Commercial websites that display permissible and impermissible goods (such as Amazon), or mixed-gender universities, or stores that display symbols of non-Islamic holidays or discounts under the name "holiday discounts," or stores that contain drawings of creatures or pictures of statues or utensils in the shape of animals? Is it permissible to utilize a program that prevents the appearance of images, videos, and advertisements that violate Sharia on a web browser, and to place a link to this program in the web directory to draw people's attention to it, thereby enabling the addition of websites that contain these violations?
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Cooperating in sin and aggression is forbidden, based on the Almighty's saying: "And do not cooperate in sin and aggression." Accordingly, it is forbidden to advertise and promote websites that propagate distorted religions, or contain images of unveiled women, or forbidden trades such as alcohol and statues. Similarly, advertising for mixed-gender universities is forbidden. It is also forbidden to promote shops that sell forbidden goods. The ruling on publishing images of living beings is a derivative of the ruling on photographing them.
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