Why is network marketing forbidden, even though it provides the consumer with a product and a job opportunity, is free from loss, and its profit depends on effort, training, and the transfer of knowledge, unlike the claims of prohibition based on ignorance and conceptual confusion, and without prohibiting other similar or more harmful things such as products promoted with images of women or carbonated drinks?
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We are not here to discuss, debate, mock, or belittle. Perhaps if the questioner were to research the topic, they would find that non-Islamic countries have prohibited these activities due to their danger to their economies, let alone the scholarly bodies and councils that have forbidden them. We will suffice by referring to previous fatwas.
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