Subscribing to Shares and Investments
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The questioner:
Your Excellency the Shaykh, there are many questions asking for your opinion on subscribing to shares?
The Shaykh:
What is subscribing to shares?
The questioner:
Subscribing to shares in existing, current, and future companies.
The Shaykh:
I do not issue rulings on these investments and these shares that people have become obsessed with and flown off with, and some of them have been struck by loss and setbacks. I do not issue rulings on them in the first place. And I say: leave them alone and stick to clear matters. The one who sells and buys and invests his money, praise be to Allah, in clear matters. Indeed, the lawful is distinct and the forbidden is distinct. He invests in real estate, in shops, in fabrics, in retail stores, in the markets. In livestock, he sells and buys in these clear matters that have no ambiguity, yes.
Your Excellency the Shaykh, there are many questions asking for your opinion on subscribing to shares?
The Shaykh:
What is subscribing to shares?
The questioner:
Subscribing to shares in existing, current, and future companies.
The Shaykh:
I do not issue rulings on these investments and these shares that people have become obsessed with and flown off with, and some of them have been struck by loss and setbacks. I do not issue rulings on them in the first place. And I say: leave them alone and stick to clear matters. The one who sells and buys and invests his money, praise be to Allah, in clear matters. Indeed, the lawful is distinct and the forbidden is distinct. He invests in real estate, in shops, in fabrics, in retail stores, in the markets. In livestock, he sells and buys in these clear matters that have no ambiguity, yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، محاضرات في العقيدة والدعوة-035-الفتوى وأحكامها|صالح الفوزان|كبار العلماء — youtube.com (57:20)
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