Buying and Selling: Ruling on Selling Scientific Knowledge in Modern Agreements

Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei

Buying and Selling: Ruling on Selling Scientific Knowledge in Modern Agreements

English:

Question #1510:

Since the majority of mujtahids make it conditional that the object sold has to have physical reality, is the sale of scientific knowledge, as in bilateral agreements between governments of this day and age, sound?

Answer #1510:

If the knowledge is exchanged under the title of muṣālaḥah, there is no harm in it.

-Imam Khamenei, Practical Laws of Islam, Importance and Conditions of Buying and Selling