Offering discounts for advance payment

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Nasihah (Advice): A fixed price for advance payments

 

Rasulullah Sallallahu Alayhi wa Sallam said: “He who makes an advance payment should not make an advance payment except for a specified measure and weight (and for a specified period)” (Muslim)

 

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Question and Answer:

 

  1. I want to enroll for an on-line course. The on-line course offers a discount on advance payments of fess while it offers a payment of normal monthly fees. Is it permissible to have two different fess for advance payments of fees and normal monthly fees in Shariah?

 

(Question published as received)

 

 

  1. It is permissible to have a discounted fee for advance payments of fees and normal fees for monthly payments on condition that the fees are specified and does not fluctuate. (Badaai-us-Sanaai)

 

 

And Allah Knows Best

 

Mufti Ismaeel Bassa

 

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