Question Summary: Selling educational software, brokerage agent Question Detail:
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In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
As-salāmu ‘alaykum wa-rahmatullāhi wa-barakātuh.
1) It is permissible for you to sell the educational software.
2) It is not permissible for one to be an agent of an interest bearing loan. The commission received from such an agency is not halal.[1]
For further information and a detailed research of assisting in sin, refer to the following link; http://www.askimam.org/public/question_detail/23092.
And Allah Ta’āla Knows Best
Saad Haque
Student Darul Iftaa New Jersey, USA
Checked and Approved by, Mufti Ebrahim Desai
[1] وَلَا تَعَاوَنُوا عَلَى الْإِثْمِ وَالْعُدْوَانِ (سورة المائدة ٢)
صحيح مسلم ١٥٩٨
عَنْ جَابِرٍ، قَالَ: «لَعَنَ رَسُولُ اللهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ آكِلَ الرِّبَا، وَمُؤْكِلَهُ، وَكَاتِبَهُ، وَشَاهِدَيْهِ»، وَقَالَ: «هُمْ سَوَاءٌ»
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