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Do the annual cultural competitions held by Arab schools outside their home countries, in which valuable prizes are awarded to the winners, constitute unlawful recompense ( عوض حرام), and what should be done with prizes previously obtained if that was unlawful money?

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There is no objection to benefiting from competition prizes, because their purpose is to educate and encourage students.

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