Is it permissible to work as an IT and networks engineer for a company that collects and sells market information (currency prices and indices) to usurious banks and investors, knowing that it does not buy or sell stocks but rather provides live and accurate data on market movements, and offers other services to usurious banks such as servers for storing market data, while the engineer's work is limited to providing and maintaining the infrastructure for transmitting this information?
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The company's field of work is permissible, but its dealings with usurious banks are forbidden. There is no harm in working for it if it does not deal with usurious banks and provides its services to everyone, with the necessity of advising those in charge to stop dealing with usurious banks, according to the Almighty's saying: "And do not cooperate in sin and aggression." It is not permissible to provide information to a usurious bank that benefits it in its usurious work.
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