What is the ruling on investment certificates issued by banks, and is the gift presented by the wife's sister (who won a large sum of money from one of these certificates) permissible or forbidden?
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Your wife is not permitted to benefit from the money her sister gifted her, because it is illicitly acquired wealth from forbidden investment certificates. This money must be disposed of by spending it on the poor and on general Muslim welfare.
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