Q: My partner and I are planning on starting a business. We’re 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 line would be mainly through advertising from healthy restaurants, gyms and sports brands etc. Some of the gyms here use music during workouts and some of them have male/female customers, even if both genders are not training in the same area or at the same time. As i don’t go to the gym, i don’t know exactly how gyms operate and about male/female customers. Please advise if such a business would be halaal. We are not opening a gym, but we are providing a platform where people can review gyms in terms of quality, trainers, equipment etc. also, our revenue would partly come from gyms through them advertising on our app.
A: When the environment of a gym sounds ambiguous then don’t advertise for it.
And Allah Ta’ala (الله تعالى) knows best.
Answered by:
Mufti Ebrahim Salejee (Isipingo Beach)