Is it permissible to buy a booklet containing discount coupons (pay for one product or service and get the second free) in order to save travel expenses?
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This booklet is part of paid discount cards, which are impermissible according to the majority of scholars due to their inclusion of ignorance (jahalah), ambiguity (), and gambling (muqamara). A resolution was issued by the Islamic Fiqh Academy of the Muslim World League stating the impermissibility of issuing or purchasing these cards.
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