GeneralJul 9, 2026
If I refer someone to a haram project and donate the fee to the poor, does that make the commission halal?
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Question context
A project offered CoinStudy payment to tweet about their prediction market platform with the suggestion that the fee could be donated to charity, making the promotion permissible.
CoinStudy's answer
Research opinion from the CoinStudy Sharia team. Not a fatwa.
Our Shariah Board Chairman confirmed: do not promote them. Earning money by promoting something Haram does not become Halal by donating the proceeds. The act of promotion itself is the problem not what you do with the money afterward. If you promote a prediction market, perpetual DEX, or interest-based platform, you are using your credibility to bring people into Haram platforms and actively growing the user base of something you know is prohibited. Donating that income does not undo any of these things. Commission on a Haram product is Haram regardless of where it goes afterwards. This principle applies to individuals and platforms equally.
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