The awareness of uncertainty (Gharar) in online shopping among UMK students

• Main Authors: Ezzatun Hazwani Ahmad Tazri, Farah Farhana Mohamad, Mohamad Amzar Mohd Asra, Nur Amira Azwa Mohd Nori
• Format: Undergraduate Final Project Report
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Online Access: http://discol.umk.edu.my/id/eprint/3630/1/Group%203.pdf; http://discol.umk.edu.my/id/eprint/3630/

This research is conducted for the academic paper project with the title, “The Awareness of Uncertainty (Gharar) in Online Shopping Among University of Malaysia Kelantan’s Students”. This paper will explore about the uses of online shopping platform that contains uncertainty in any transaction and purchases of goods. Online shopping is a process whereby consumers directly buy goods and services from a seller without an intermediary service over the Internet. We will also discuss about the awareness of that uncertainty (Gharar) among University of Malaysia Kelantan’s student. Nowadays, many people got addicted to buy goods from online shopping platform since it is more convenient and quicker. According to Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC), online shopping’s market increased from RM75.0 billion in 2016 to RM85.8 billion in 2017 and increase rapidly once Covid-19 started. The percentage of people who shopping through online keep increasing day by days rather than people who buying goods at a supermarket on their own. Unfortunately, there is some issue about online shopping platform based on Shariah perspective. Using this platform, we ordered our goods without knowing the awareness pertaining to Gharar in online shopping, product uncertainty, seller uncertainty and Gharar in informative Islamic commercial law This lead to uncertainty which is Gharar in Shariah term. Based on Shafi’i scholars, they have described Gharar as “something which in its manner and its consequence is hidden”. Then, according to Al-Sarakshi, Gharar is “anything that the end result is hidden or the risk is equally uncommon, whether it exists or not.”