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Q: I have a medical website hosted for free by a company called WordPress. Occasionally, they will place an advert on my website at their discretion. The content and image of the advertisement could be for anything, i.e: advertising insurance, a vehicle, a gambling website, a holiday cruise etc. Often an animate object is included. These adverts will often link to the respective website. I have no control over these adverts that appear occasionally nor its sometimes haraam content. – Is it necessary to change to another web-host company that does not do this, or pay a fee for the WordPress ‘No-Ads Upgrade’?

Bismillaah

A: It is best that with all the corruption that is going on in technology that you do not allow any advertisements to come to your site.

And Allah Ta’ala (الله تعالى) knows best.

وَتَعاوَنوا عَلَى البِرِّ وَالتَّقوىٰ وَلا تَعاوَنوا عَلَى الإِثمِ وَالعُدوٰنِ وَاتَّقُوا اللَّهَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ شَديدُ العِقابِ ﴿المائدة: ٢﴾

يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا إِنَّمَا الْخَمْرُ وَالْمَيْسِرُ وَالْأَنصَابُ وَالْأَزْلَامُ رِجْسٌ مِّنْ عَمَلِ الشَّيْطَانِ فَاجْتَنِبُوهُ لَعَلَّكُمْ تُفْلِحُونَ ﴿المائدة: ٩٠﴾

عن أبى هريرة أن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم قال ليأتين على الناس زمان لا يبقى أحد إلا أكل الربا فإن لم يأكله أصابه من بخاره (سنن أبي داود # 3333)

سمعت عائشة رضي الله عنها قدم رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم من سفر وقد سترت بقرام لي على سهوة لي فيها تماثيل فلما رآه رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم هتكه وقال أشد الناس عذابا يوم القيامة الذين يضاهون بخلق الله. (بخاري # 5954)

عن ابن عباس قال : قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه و سلم من صور صورة عذبه الله حتى ينفخ فيها يعني الروح وليس بنافخ فيها. (ترمذي 2/305)

Answered by:

Mufti Ebrahim Salejee (Isipingo Beach)

This answer was collected from MuftiOnline.co.za, where the questions have been answered by Mufti Zakaria Makada (Hafizahullah), who is currently a senior lecturer in the science of Hadith and Fiqh at Madrasah Ta’leemuddeen, Isipingo Beach, South Africa.

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