Participating in an investment company with a profit percentage and periodic distribution

The questioner:
An investment company accepts participation and distributes profits every eight months, with the profit determined at seventeen or nineteen percent. Is it permissible to participate in something like this? Yes. It accepts participation and distributes profits every eight months, with the profit determined at seventeen or nineteen percent. Is it permissible to participate in something like this, at seventeen percent?

The Shaykh:
Seventeen percent is a rate that is fine. This is a shared profit, this is a shared profit. Seventeen percent, five percent, twenty percent, and so on, is a shared profit, so there is nothing wrong with that. However, fixing it by months, fixing it so that every so many months you are given a share, this is not correct, because there may be no profit in those months,

The questioner:
and nothing may be obtained in those months. Committing to give you a share every three or four months, committing to this with the profit

The Shaykh:
is difficult.

The questioner:
or it may not be realized. Yes.