The ruling on incentivizing shopping by making purchases free
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: One of the major stores has a method of encouraging people to buy from them. It is that when you buy your needs from this store, whether few or many, and when you want to pay the amount, the cashier enters your purchases into the machine. Sometimes some customers win, and all their purchases become free.
The Shaykh:
This is gambling, which is consuming wealth unjustly, and this is not permissible. It is enticing people to buy, and they may not want the goods; they want the prize. So this is not permissible. This is deceiving people and consuming their wealth unjustly.
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.
The Shaykh:
You should encourage people. I advise you to be truthful in your selling and buying, and do not deceive people or lie to them. Then people will flock to you because they want to trust your selling and buying. Use truthfulness, do not use deception and consuming their wealth and tricking them. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: One of the major stores has a method of encouraging people to buy from them. It is that when you buy your needs from this store, whether few or many, and when you want to pay the amount, the cashier enters your purchases into the machine. Sometimes some customers win, and all their purchases become free.
The Shaykh:
This is gambling, which is consuming wealth unjustly, and this is not permissible. It is enticing people to buy, and they may not want the goods; they want the prize. So this is not permissible. This is deceiving people and consuming their wealth unjustly.
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.
The Shaykh:
You should encourage people. I advise you to be truthful in your selling and buying, and do not deceive people or lie to them. Then people will flock to you because they want to trust your selling and buying. Use truthfulness, do not use deception and consuming their wealth and tricking them. Yes.
Source
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