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What is the ruling on purchasing shares in a telecommunications company (whose core business is permissible) that deposits its money in an interest-based bank or borrows from it, especially since the company encourages employees to buy shares by granting them the same amount they purchase (401k)?

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It is not permissible to buy shares in this company, even if its activity were permissible, because it exploits a portion of the share assets to obtain usurious interest.

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