Is it permissible to trade shares of Hermes company, which operates in financial brokerage, knowing that it deals in shares of companies whose activities combine the permissible and the forbidden, and does the ruling differ based on the intention (speculation or investment), and if dealing with them is forbidden, what is the ruling on the profits realized from them and what should be done with them?

Mediation between a seller and a buyer (brokering) is permissible if it pertains to something Islamically permissible. Companies that mediate between usurious banks, prohibited companies, and clients are engaged in a forbidden act, and it is not permissible to purchase their shares because the shareholder authorizes the company's management in its prohibited work. Whoever was a partner in companies that mix the permissible and the forbidden, then repents and sells his shares, must dispose of the profits resulting from the forbidden transactions by giving them to charitable causes. The rest of the profits become permissible for him.