What is the ruling on leasing land to a farmer without specifying a price, where payment is based on the sale and profit?
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The questioner : A farmer... there are many of them, but the thing that happens is that he does not specify a price for it. And when this merchandise comes down to the markets, it is according to its availability in the markets, meaning that sometimes the farmer...?
The Shaykh : Okay, and what does the farmer do when he brings the merchandise?
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Give me an answer, what does the farmer do when he brings the merchandise?
The questioner : ...he sells it to the merchant.
The Shaykh : Okay, why does this merchant make a lot of profit and that one lose a lot, why?
The questioner : Because the farmer needs the merchant.
The Shaykh : I do not understand.
The questioner : Yes, so what does the merchant mean, what does he do?
The Shaykh : Okay, and why does the farmer sometimes make a profit?
The questioner : He makes a profit sometimes when the merchandise is scarce in the markets, so this merchant comes and sets the prices he wants, regarding the high prices, for example, he bought a kilo of oranges from this farmer for ten notes and sold it for twenty, why? Because there are no oranges in the markets? So he might give the farmer five or six notes. But the second scenario is the opposite: all the farmers brought their merchandise and it happened that this farmer, just as this farmer planted, and this one, so the markets were flooded and the price dropped... you remember in the question that they do not agree on a price. When he gave him, for example, a million notes, I do not say to him, "I will sell the kilo of oranges for ten notes," brother, it is according to what it sells for in the market. So when the merchandise became abundant, the kilo became five notes.
The Shaykh: Go ahead.
The Shaykh : Okay, and what does the farmer do when he brings the merchandise?
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Give me an answer, what does the farmer do when he brings the merchandise?
The questioner : ...he sells it to the merchant.
The Shaykh : Okay, why does this merchant make a lot of profit and that one lose a lot, why?
The questioner : Because the farmer needs the merchant.
The Shaykh : I do not understand.
The questioner : Yes, so what does the merchant mean, what does he do?
The Shaykh : Okay, and why does the farmer sometimes make a profit?
The questioner : He makes a profit sometimes when the merchandise is scarce in the markets, so this merchant comes and sets the prices he wants, regarding the high prices, for example, he bought a kilo of oranges from this farmer for ten notes and sold it for twenty, why? Because there are no oranges in the markets? So he might give the farmer five or six notes. But the second scenario is the opposite: all the farmers brought their merchandise and it happened that this farmer, just as this farmer planted, and this one, so the markets were flooded and the price dropped... you remember in the question that they do not agree on a price. When he gave him, for example, a million notes, I do not say to him, "I will sell the kilo of oranges for ten notes," brother, it is according to what it sells for in the market. So when the merchandise became abundant, the kilo became five notes.
The Shaykh: Go ahead.
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