Gambling and Speculation
391 questions
Is it permissible for a female employee to take lottery incentives offered by her employer, whose business relies on selling lottery tickets, and is it permissible to take them and donate them as charity if the answer is no?
Is it permissible to participate in a free lottery that requires no capital, and in which winnings are derived from money granted by the website?
What is the ruling on subscribing to the websites of advertising and marketing companies that pay money for opening messages or placing an advertising banner on the screen?
Is the act of a telecommunications company that conducts a competition based on points for using its services, and replaces these (points) through a lottery with gold pieces or mobile phones, considered a forbidden act and usury?
What is the ruling on financial exchange conditioned upon the occurrence or non-occurrence of a specific event, such as one of them saying: "If such-and-such happens, pay me, and if it does not happen, I will pay you," or saying: "If it rains today, I will pay you, and if it does not rain, you do not pay"?
What is the ruling on participating in an electronic lottery to obtain a sum of money without paying or buying anything?
What is the ruling on the prize of a religious competition, which is an investment certificate worth 5 pounds, and from which I won 1000 pounds in its draw?
Is money earned from an intellectual and physical competition, which requires a financial payment to enter, and whose winner receives this sum, permissible or forbidden?
Is it permissible to organize a competition for predicting the results of football matches and offer financial prizes to the winners without imposing subscription fees?
What is the ruling on sports tournaments where each team contributes a sum of money, and the organizing team purchases prizes and a cup for the winners, provided that one of the teams does not pay any financial contribution?
What is the ruling on an online competition whose entry card is purchased for $25, which depends on answering 30 questions, and in which the prize is awarded based on the number of correct answers without a draw or lottery, with the prize calculated for every 10 questions as a "stage"?
Is it permissible to play poker online with virtual points and not real money?
What is the ruling on participating in commercial incentive competitions that depend on purchasing products and then sending their vouchers to enter a draw to win monetary prizes?
Is it permissible to play against the computer in online games where an initial free amount is given for betting, and in case of winning, additional money is obtained, with the possibility of withdrawing the winnings later?
What is the ruling of Islamic law on a "Society" that collects a compulsory monthly sum from a group of individuals, for one of them to take by lottery each month, and which is designated for occasions?
What is the religious ruling on a civil servant working in the lottery department of the post office, knowing that his monthly salary is fixed by the state and he receives nothing from the lottery money?
What is the ruling on speculation in stock markets, buying shares and bonds, and the resulting profit or loss?
What is the ruling on participating in English vocabulary memorization competitions organized by the teacher, knowing that some of them require a fee to participate while others do not, and the prize is from the teacher himself?
What is the ruling on competitions and incentive prizes for purchases in newspapers, commercial stores, petrol stations, laundromats, television channels, and bank deposit certificates?
What is the ruling on collecting a monthly sum of money from friends at work for an annual draw to select two of them to visit the Messenger (peace be upon him)? And is this draw considered unlawful gambling, knowing that the participants donate this money and do not expect its return?
Is an agreement between two people that one of them will pay the other (food or money) if he doesn't memorize two pages of the Holy Quran by the end of the week considered gambling, and what is the ruling on feeding someone else who is not one of the competitors?
Is it permissible to participate in polls via SMS for a sum of money to enter a draw for a large prize?
Is it forbidden to work at a gas station that sells alcohol, provided that one's tasks are unrelated to alcohol, and is the money earned from this work unlawful? What is the ruling on friends working in stores that sell alcohol or deal in lottery tickets, and sometimes being compelled to carry alcohol?
Is there any Sharia violation in the game of "bananeer" or "julul" – where a child pays for its marbles ("bananeer") and plays with them by throwing his marble into a hole and then shooting at his opponent's marbles to take them if he hits them?