The ruling on selling prepaid communication cards paid in installments
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Question:
The last question: The questioner says that some young men buy a set of prepaid communication cards and then sell them to a person in installments with a deferred payment. Is this transaction permissible, and what is your Eminence’s guidance on this?
Answer:
Is the prepaid card itself permissible or not? If it is permissible, is it permissible to sell it or not? I do not see the prepaid card as permissible, and I see that it involves ambiguity, loss, deception, and the loss of money, such that when the time period passes, it is gone from you and you have paid for it. Why is it gone from you?
It is obligatory that if you have paid for it, you use it until you exhaust the value you paid for. As for setting a time limit such that when it passes, your money is gone, this is consuming wealth unjustly. Yes, you bought it; if you buy a commodity, you own it and benefit from it until you have benefited from it, if it was a purchase. And they say, "The purchase of a prepaid card is sold to him as a sale." Yes.
The last question: The questioner says that some young men buy a set of prepaid communication cards and then sell them to a person in installments with a deferred payment. Is this transaction permissible, and what is your Eminence’s guidance on this?
Answer:
Is the prepaid card itself permissible or not? If it is permissible, is it permissible to sell it or not? I do not see the prepaid card as permissible, and I see that it involves ambiguity, loss, deception, and the loss of money, such that when the time period passes, it is gone from you and you have paid for it. Why is it gone from you?
It is obligatory that if you have paid for it, you use it until you exhaust the value you paid for. As for setting a time limit such that when it passes, your money is gone, this is consuming wealth unjustly. Yes, you bought it; if you buy a commodity, you own it and benefit from it until you have benefited from it, if it was a purchase. And they say, "The purchase of a prepaid card is sold to him as a sale." Yes.
Source
شرح فضل الإسلام [ صالح الفوزان ]، باب ما جاء في غربة الإسلام وفضل الغرباء — islamhouse.com (1:05:43)
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