Gambling and Speculation
391 questions
How can one serve the religion through financial and banking sciences after graduating with a good GPA?
Is participating in the USA Green Card lottery for $50, which is refunded if the application is rejected, permissible (halal) or forbidden (haram), especially if the participant was not aware of the fee beforehand?
What is the ruling on placing concealed prizes inside merchandise for sale, and what are the conditions for that?
Are national Sukuk, which are based on the principle of Sharia-compliant Mudarabah and allow investors to redeem their value and profits, in addition to the possibility of winning prizes from a periodic draw from the administration's private funds, considered permissible in Sharia, despite Dr. Hussein Hamid Hassan's affirmation of their permissibility?
What is the ruling on money acquired from televised competitions that depend on answering questions or on a lottery for callers, and which are sponsored by mobile phone companies?
Is money earned from a project founded with lottery money forbidden (haram) or permissible (halal)? And is it permissible to return only the lottery money?
Is it permissible for an unemployed sixty-year-old man, who supports five children and is burdened by debts, to play the lottery to sustain himself and his family?
What is the ruling on participating in the "Mawja" telecom company's system, which awards prizes based on accumulating personal points and points from cascaded subscribers (the tree) down to the fourth level?
What is the ruling on my remaining in my job, knowing that the lawyer exaggerates the damages for which compensation is claimed from the insurance company?
Is it permissible for a person to assist in launching an Arabic section for a foreign Formula 1 racing website, knowing that the website includes advertisements for alcohol, cigarettes, gambling, and pictures of models? What is the ruling on accepting money from them when its source is unknown? Is it permissible to use their images without permission? Is designing a website for motorsports in and of itself forbidden?
What is the ruling on subscribing to websites that claim one can earn money merely by receiving emails and browsing the web, for someone in dire need of money?
What is the interpretation of the verse: "And do not consume your properties among yourselves through falsehood, and do not present it to the rulers that you may consume thereby a part of the properties of the people sinfully while you know"?
Is money obtained from winning the lottery halal, and is spending it considered a sin?
Is the prize obtained from a cultural competition via broadcast radio permissible or forbidden?
كيف أتصرف بمال حرام قدمته لأحد أفراد عائلتي، وقد تبت إلى الله وليس لدي المقدرة على رد المبلغ كاملاً، ولا أستطيع مصارحته بخصوص مصدر المال؟
Is it permissible to pay taxes on the transfer of a monetary prize from a British company, given that the amount is already in the bank and the transfer will be completed within 48 hours?
Is money acquired through gambling permissible or forbidden, knowing that I am in dire need of it, and I won this amount after withdrawing from a bank loan? And is it permissible for me to spend it on the needy, considering it a loan?
Did the mother do right in forbidding her son from gambling with corn kernels instead of money, fearing that he would get used to gambling and fall into doubt?
Do the father and mother bear sin for consuming their son's illicit money and living in a house he built with this money?
What is the ruling on marketing the aforementioned product, which relies on pyramid marketing, given the presence of an actual product? And is it permissible for me to take a commission if the purchase is for the product itself, and not for the purpose of marketing?
What is the ruling on exchanging forms in a German company, where a form is sold for a certain amount and sent to the company for them to send three similar forms to be sold to others, with profits and prizes multiplying as the number of buyers increases, and with the possibility of extending the form's validity or changing the line to find buyers in case of no sale?
Is the paid annual online subscription to the US Green Card lottery considered an immigration application or a form of gambling?
Is it permissible to accept a large sum of money ($1,100,000) received via email from a British lottery organization, and is it considered permissible (halal) or forbidden (haram), and is depositing it into a friend's account considered money laundering, bearing in mind the recipient's intention to donate part of it and use it for studies?
Is it permissible to obtain a deed for a large sum of money won from an online lottery game, where one's name was entered unintentionally, knowing that the website belongs to a non-Muslim country, with the aim of personal or public benefit?