Trading in Stocks: Buying and Selling
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: Is trading in stocks through buying and selling permissible in the Shari'ah?
Answer:
Stocks differ. If they are stocks in fixed assets in agricultural companies or industrial companies, fixed things, that is fine, there is nothing wrong with it. But if they are absolute stocks where you do not know what they are used for or what is in them, then it is not permissible. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: Is trading in stocks through buying and selling permissible in the Shari'ah?
Answer:
Stocks differ. If they are stocks in fixed assets in agricultural companies or industrial companies, fixed things, that is fine, there is nothing wrong with it. But if they are absolute stocks where you do not know what they are used for or what is in them, then it is not permissible. Yes.
Source
شرح إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان لابن القيم، تابع فصل ثم إن في اتخاذ القبور أعيادًا من المفاسد العظيمة ... - 1 — islamhouse.com (1:15:21)
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