What is the ruling on selling a house for one million dollars through a lottery of one million tickets, each costing one dollar; is this gambling or permissible?
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The buyer of this card pays one dollar to win a lottery, and their situation oscillates between the loss of a dollar and the gain of a house. This oscillation between gain and loss is the very essence of gambling. Gambling is taking a person's money with the risk of whether or not they will receive compensation for it.
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