Working in jobs related to non-financial Haram activities : working for google AdSense program displaying Ads

Fatawa Question

I am an individual residing in India and have a job. I also maintain a technology blog from where I get an income from Google AdSense. The Google AdSense program displays ads relevant to your website's content and I get paid per click. Although it does not display any alcohol or gambling sites as per the program's terms, it may or may not display bank, insurance, games or ringtone sites (there is no guarantee that it will not display such sites). And there is no way to control what ads will appear or will not appear. I am mainly earning this money so that I can purchase a house of my own as I am the virtually the sole earner of the family and we don’t have our own house to live in. 1) Is such as income from Google AdSense and or any other pay per click program, where there is no control over what is displayed, allowed ? 2) If not, in my scenario, can I continue to earn such income till can purchase my own house, considering it may be better than paying interest on a loan to bank ? The income from my job is not so much so as to buy a house 3) I have also invested part of such money received into Halal stocks and shares, thinking my blog income was Halal. Would my capital gains be Halal or what can be done to make this Halal ? 4) Is writing informational content about non-Islamic items such as games or promotions also Haram ?

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Publication Date

2007-11-06

Main Subjects

Economics & Business Administration
Islamic Studies

No. of Pages

1

Data Type

Fatawa

Language

English

Record ID

BIM-785381

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