Yasir Qadhi – Are Stock Options Halal – Ask Shaykh YQ #234

			Brother Mustafa from Bangladesh emails and says our stock options halaal or stock options halaal.
Once again, this is rapid q&a. So I'm going to quickly go over this maybe one day I'll go into a lot
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			but for those who are not aware, an option is a contract between two parties that gives the buyer
the right to buy or sell the security at a predetermined price on or before a predetermined date. So
it gives you the right, but you don't have to do that. It gives you the option. But it does is it is
not something that is obligatory on you. And in essence, what happens is that two people are
basically gambling against each other one party wants or hopes that the price will go up and the
other party wants or hopes that the price will go down. And so they're kind of betting against each
other. That's the only reason why the two would do this. And because of this, the vast majority of
		

			modern scholars, including the field Academy Counsel of the robot of the OYC, including the European
fatwa Council, including the University respected body of Islamic economics and finance fat was the
AOP a RFI is called the EO fee. And many other scholars. In fact, this is the default position of
pretty much everybody that is respected in the field that they have all ruled that options are
impermissible haram under the shadow. And this is because there are multiple problems involved with
this contract most significantly is the issue of uncertainty or a quarter and also the you basically
you do not know you are not actually there is an element of uncertainty, you do not know what
		

			exactly you are having each one is betting against the other. And this is another problem that
there's an element of MMR or gambling. And the two parties are both expecting the other two to lose,
and one of them will win. So it's a zero sum game, where one basically takes all and the other party
basically goes into a loss. And this is in contrast to the one who purchases stock directly. The one
who purchases stock is a part owner, and he wants the company to flourish, and he's expecting the
stock to go up. He doesn't know the future. But the point is, he's a part owner and if the company
goes up Alhamdulillah pseudocyst profit if it goes down well then that's the collective loss that
		

			they all share. He's not betting against another person and there's no uncertainty that would be
haram over here. And therefore, the majority position the default position is that stock options are
not allowed because there is a level of Islamic uncertainty horror and a level of Kumar or gambling
and ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada knows best. Yeah, man