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Is it permissible to lease a chat program for cultural, sports, and Islamic websites, given that the website owner has control over the public chat but is unable to monitor private messages?

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It is permissible to lease software to websites if they do not promote falsehood or call to the forbidden. The inability of websites to monitor private messages does not preclude permissibility, as long as it is highly probable that the messages are permissible.

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