Question: Oh my teacher, there is a man who has a friend who is a businessman. So the businessman said: if you bring me customers, I will give you 5% if they buy products worth 100 dinar. Is this allowed for the man who is a friend of the businessman?
Shaikh: That they buy what?
Questioner: If you bring me customers who buy 100 dinars worth of my product, I will give you five dinars, that is five percent.
Shaikh: If you bring customers who buy 100 dinars worth?
Questioner: Yes
Shaikh: He will give you five dinars?
Questioner: Yes
Shaikh: if you bring customers that buy fifty dinars worth?
Questioner: He will give me a portion oh my teacher, a portion oh my teacher [i.e. proportionate to what is sold]
Shaikh: He takes a portion?
Questioner: Yes
Shaikh: Alright, if he finds 5 percent or a percentage that comes out of his pocket and not the pocket of the customers, then it is fine.
Questioner: Yes
Shaikh: If it comes out from the pocket of the customers and he takes five percent and gives it to the man who brought the customers, then that is not allowed.
Questioner: Ah, Jazakallahu Khairan Oh our Teacher
Shaikh: Wa iyyaka
[Silsilatul-Huda wan-Nur no. 9]
Translated by
Faisal Ibn Abdul Qaadir Ibn Hassan
Abu Sulaymaan
