Buying a communication card if the buyer is certain of its consumption
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah preserve you, you said that a prepaid phone card is forbidden (haram) due to the harm it causes the subscriber. If the buyer is completely certain that he will exhaust the card's value, does the ruling change in that case?
Answer:
No, there is no harm if he intends to exhaust it. If he intends to buy it and exhaust it before the deadline they mentioned, there is no harm. However, if he intends to buy it and the deadline arrives before it is exhausted or used, and it is lost on him, this is not permissible because it is a waste of money. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah preserve you, you said that a prepaid phone card is forbidden (haram) due to the harm it causes the subscriber. If the buyer is completely certain that he will exhaust the card's value, does the ruling change in that case?
Answer:
No, there is no harm if he intends to exhaust it. If he intends to buy it and exhaust it before the deadline they mentioned, there is no harm. However, if he intends to buy it and the deadline arrives before it is exhausted or used, and it is lost on him, this is not permissible because it is a waste of money. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you
Source
75-اللقاء الأسبوعي مع الشيخ صالح الفوزان - 31 — archive.org (42:01)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.