Is the ruling on profits generated from an investment system based on purchasing shares and watching advertisements, with restrictions on withdrawing a percentage of the profits and the obligation to reinvest another percentage, permissible or impermissible according to Sharia?
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It appears that the reality of the aforementioned company is merely an advertising company that pays money in exchange for browsing a certain number of advertisements, disguising this with terms such as "shares." We have previously stated that this type [of transaction] is impermissible.
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Reviewed by El Fatwa's sharia committee.
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