The ruling on some establishments holding a car raffle
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Question:
May Allah reward you. Your Eminence, the father, the questioner says: A man who owns a commercial shop set up a prize, which is a car. Everyone who comes to this shop during a specific period receives a number. When the period ends, a number is drawn from these numbers, and the person whose number comes out gets the car. Is this action prescribed?
Answer:
This is gambling. This is maysir (gambling). These are invalid bets intended to attract customers and compete with them, and to make them pay money to this shop and buy their needs from this shop, so that perhaps, perhaps, they will get this prize and the car. It is not from their own money; they are taking it from the money of the competing people, because they receive a lot of money from the competitors.
So they take some of it and put it in a car, and they divide up the rest. All of this is invalid, and this is invalid gambling, and it is not permissible. Even if many shops do this, bringing a car and putting it on a stage or on something high as a bait for people. This is bait they set for people. This is from what is invalid and from consuming the money of people by means of falsehood. Yes.
May Allah reward you. Your Eminence, the father, the questioner says: A man who owns a commercial shop set up a prize, which is a car. Everyone who comes to this shop during a specific period receives a number. When the period ends, a number is drawn from these numbers, and the person whose number comes out gets the car. Is this action prescribed?
Answer:
This is gambling. This is maysir (gambling). These are invalid bets intended to attract customers and compete with them, and to make them pay money to this shop and buy their needs from this shop, so that perhaps, perhaps, they will get this prize and the car. It is not from their own money; they are taking it from the money of the competing people, because they receive a lot of money from the competitors.
So they take some of it and put it in a car, and they divide up the rest. All of this is invalid, and this is invalid gambling, and it is not permissible. Even if many shops do this, bringing a car and putting it on a stage or on something high as a bait for people. This is bait they set for people. This is from what is invalid and from consuming the money of people by means of falsehood. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [399- 4717] حكم وضع بعض المحلات مسابقة السحب على سيارة - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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