The Difference Between Shareholding in Capital and Shareholding in Labor, and the Ruling on Boxing

The questioner:
What is the difference between the intensity and hunger of the two, since neither of them has any money?

The Shaykh:
The difference between them is clear. Shareholding in capital (shirkat al-ujuh) is in debts; it relates to debts, reputation, and the people's trust in the person. As for shareholding in labor (shirkat al-abdan), it relates to the body; whatever the body earns through its trade and the hire of the body. Yes, for example, he gathers firewood from the desert and sells it, or he gathers fodder and sells it. This is shareholding in labor, meaning what he obtains through his body. Yes.

Another questioner:
It falls under wrestling.

The Shaykh:
No, boxing is not permissible. It is not permissible because it poses a danger to the self without any benefit. Boxing is not permissible. All these competitions are forbidden (haram) of this type, and they are among the ways of consuming wealth unjustly. Yes.