Working for a network marketing company

18-4-2011 | IslamWeb

Question:

Assalam u alaikum I am working in speakasiaonline.com. This company is network marketing company and it provides surveys for different companies and we get paid for doing surveys, i.e., we are giving service and in return we are getting paid. It is also a chain system in which we create team. We create team by disclosing all the details regarding commission so nothing is hidden. In many companies creating team is mandatory but in this it is optional. If u do extra effort by joining other members then u get commission for that. hence everything i clear. If we do not do surveys then we do not get payment..Therefore i think it is Halal because nothing is hidden in this like the working and commission. Sir , I would like to hear it from you. Thanks

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Answer:

All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah, and that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger. 

What we understood from the question and after visiting the site of the company is that this company is marketing the products of other companies by doing surveys about those products and then it takes a commission for this. We also understood that it does not distinguish between lawful and unlawful products, so it may market a forbidden product as well as a permissible one.

Therefore, if this is the case, then it is permissible to work for the mentioned site in what is lawful, i.e. while abiding by marketing and advertising the lawful products and not the forbidden ones.

Also, it is permissible for a worker to get a commission on his work whether he does it on his own or while sharing other workers, as long as the commission is defined and what he advertises is lawful.

Allaah Knows best.