Is the financial transaction with the aforementioned company, which involves paying sums of money for enrollment, courses, and support, and marketing their products while receiving financial rewards for bringing in new and continuing subscribers, permissible or forbidden?
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The described scenario is one of the forms of network marketing, or pyramidal marketing, which is forbidden due to the elements of deception, fraud, gharar (uncertainty/risk), and gambling it contains. Many scholars and researchers have explicitly stated the prohibition of this type of marketing, including the Permanent Committee for Scholarly Research and Ifta' and the Islamic Fiqh Academy in Sudan.
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