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Q: My partner and I are planning on launching a mobile app for health conscious people. In the app, people will be able to review and rate healthy restaurants, gyms, sports gear, supplements, etc. Our revenue will mainly be through advertising for healthy restaurants, gyms and sports brands, etc. Some of the gyms here use music during workouts and some of them have male and female customers, even if both genders are not training in the same area or at the same time. We are not opening a gym, but we are providing a platform where people can review gyms in terms of quality, trainers, equipment, etc. and our revenue would partly come from gyms through them advertising on our app. Is this permissible?

Q: I have developed an urdu learning app and I will sell its features.

1. If I ask some of my friends or relatives to forward and market my app as much as they can to their known people, do I need to pay them for this?

2. I am a female, can I market my app by collecting a large number of emails from internet and then send my app link on those email addresses, is it permissible for me to do this?

3. I am not on facebook neither do i use it. Can I ask my friend to market my app on facebook? Is it permissible? Is facebook a haram medium to market my app? What if I dont ask my friend but still she markets my app on facebook, do I need to stop her from marketing my app on facebook?

Q: Is it haram to use adblock and such add-ons that prevent ad pop ups? Because it can be preventing money reaching to its rightful owner example if I watch a youtube video without ads on it because of adblock the youtuber is not making money for his effort of making the video

Q: I am thinking of building a mobile application. Can I create apps and whatever I earn by showing ads on this app, will it jaiz?

Q: WordPress.com is a website hosting service provider. The company offers a free website plan (package). A downside of the free plan is that WordPress.com will occasional display an advertisement on one's website. One has no control over the content and images appearing in these advertisements. As long as the advertised content is not (sexually) mature or illegal, it can appear on one's website. All advertisements are either a still image or a playable video. The appearance of haraam advertisements are likely and are often observed. One does not gain any income from these advertisements in the free package. Only logged-in WordPress account holders do not see advertisements.

1. Is it permissible to host an Islamic website using this free WordPress.com website plan?

2. Is it permissible to host a non-Islamic website using this free WordPress.com website plan?

3. Is it permissible to host and design websites for non-Muslims using this free WordPress.com website plan?

Q: I run a supermarket. Can I come up with offers that target Hindu clientele e.g. Diwali 20 percent off or Raksha Bandan offers? As a Muslim, can I use Hindu big days to come up with offers for Hindu clientele?

Q: I have a job advertisement website on which I post job offers, people looking for employment, etc. I now want to apply to have Google Ads on my site as I will earn money through these ads. Is this permissible?

Q: If I make a software and allow Google to display ads on it to earn, what kind of income is it?

Q: Can I allow companies to place advertisements on my website and charge them for it?

Q: Is it permissible for a person to work in an advertisement agency? Will his earnings be permissible or not?