A question regarding gambling and usury in which some company employees are involved
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The questioner : He says: I am an employee at the Aramco company, and there is a savings and investment fund into which we pay ten percent of the salary, and after ten years the amount is paid out doubled, on the condition that the employee is dismissed from the company,
The Shaykh : that he is dismissed.
The questioner : or that he is dismissed. So what is your Eminence’s opinion on this?
The Shaykh : These types of transactions and schemes that have occurred recently, recently, their origin is the love of money, the love of money, and four. Whether through lawful means or through forbidden means. This is one of the serious matters. And if we apply the scenario mentioned by the questioner, we find that it is of the gambling (maysir) that Allah the Exalted has forbidden in His Book, and He associated it with idols and lots and intoxicants. So He said, the Exalted:[Al-Ma'idah 5:90]. Believe. [Al-Ma'idah 5:90]. Blessed. [Al-Ma'idah 5:90].
The questioner : What is the secret?
The Shaykh : And the idols and the lots. Yes. Provision[Al-Ma'idah 5:90]. And the maysir is every transaction, but, built on risk, such that the person in it is, knowing, in debt, or in the dark. Second refuge. And this savings that is taken from the person, and he is given many times over, large, falls either into gambling or, rather, into usury (riba). Either by gambling if the person is separated before the period, oh, it is lost on him. On you. What he handed over. Or from usury. No. If he remains until the period ends and is given an increase, an increase. And both matters are forbidden. Forbidden.
And know, O my Muslim brother, Muslim, that it is obligatory upon you to make your food pure, your work, and to make your drink pure. Please. And to make your clothing pure. Because these things, these things, if they are forbidden, from whom? You are likely that Allah will not answer your supplication.
For the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) says.Sahih Muslim 1015. Jami` at-Tirmidhi 2989Sahih (Darussalam). Khalil. So He said, the Exalted: [Al-Mu'minun 23:51]. And He said, the Exalted: [Al-Baqarah 2:172]. Then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) mentioned the man, a man, who lengthens his journey. Roof. Disheveled and dusty. We envy. He stretches his hands to the sky, O Lord, O Lord. O Lord. And his food is forbidden. Ha? And his clothing is forbidden. Ah. And he is nourished with the forbidden. Forbidden. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: How will that be answered? That. This is a word of interrogation intended to mean distance. Meaning it is distant that this man’s supplication is answered. Let’s go.
Even though this man, a man, has done the causes for the acceptance of supplication. For he, because he is in travel. In travel. And disheveled and dusty. I err. And he has stretched his hands to the sky. Complete. And he has called upon his Lord for aid, O Lord, O Lord. O Lord. And yet the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) says. Peace be upon you. How will that be answered? Because his food is forbidden. Forbidden. And what he wears is forbidden. Complete. And he is nourished with the forbidden, we ask Allah for safety.
So it is upon you, O my Muslim brother. Yes. To make your food pure. And your clothing. Your drink. And your nourishment. Yes. So that you are likely to be answered. Answered. If you do not do so. We do. Then you are likely to be rejected and not answered. Yes, yes.
The Shaykh : that he is dismissed.
The questioner : or that he is dismissed. So what is your Eminence’s opinion on this?
The Shaykh : These types of transactions and schemes that have occurred recently, recently, their origin is the love of money, the love of money, and four. Whether through lawful means or through forbidden means. This is one of the serious matters. And if we apply the scenario mentioned by the questioner, we find that it is of the gambling (maysir) that Allah the Exalted has forbidden in His Book, and He associated it with idols and lots and intoxicants. So He said, the Exalted:
O you who have believed
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُواindeed, intoxicants
إِنَّمَا الْخَمْرُO you who have believed, indeed, intoxicants, gambling, [sacrificing on] stone alters [to other than Allah], and divining arrows are but defilement from the work of Satan, so avoid it that you may be successful.
وَالْمَيْسِرُThe questioner : What is the secret?
The Shaykh : And the idols and the lots. Yes. Provision
from the work of Satan, so avoid it
مِّنْ عَمَلِ الشَّيْطَانِ فَاجْتَنِبُوهُAnd know, O my Muslim brother, Muslim, that it is obligatory upon you to make your food pure, your work, and to make your drink pure. Please. And to make your clothing pure. Because these things, these things, if they are forbidden, from whom? You are likely that Allah will not answer your supplication.
For the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) says.
Allah is Good and He therefore, accepts only that which is good
إن الله طيب لا يقبل إلا طيباAnd indeed Allah ordered the believers with what He ordered the Messengers
وإن الله أمر المؤمنين بما أمر به المرسلينO messengers, eat from the good foods and work righteousness
يَا أَيُّهَا الرُّسُلُ كُلُوا مِنَ الطَّيِّبَاتِ وَاعْمَلُوا صَالِحًاO you who have believed, eat from the good things which We have provided for you and be grateful to Allah
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا كُلُوا مِن طَيِّبَاتِ مَا رَزَقْنَاكُمْ وَاشْكُرُوا لِلَّهِEven though this man, a man, has done the causes for the acceptance of supplication. For he, because he is in travel. In travel. And disheveled and dusty. I err. And he has stretched his hands to the sky. Complete. And he has called upon his Lord for aid, O Lord, O Lord. O Lord. And yet the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) says. Peace be upon you. How will that be answered? Because his food is forbidden. Forbidden. And what he wears is forbidden. Complete. And he is nourished with the forbidden, we ask Allah for safety.
So it is upon you, O my Muslim brother. Yes. To make your food pure. And your clothing. Your drink. And your nourishment. Yes. So that you are likely to be answered. Answered. If you do not do so. We do. Then you are likely to be rejected and not answered. Yes, yes.
Source
قناة «فضيلة الشيخ محمد بن صالح العثيمين»، لقاء[6 من 20] مسألة في الميسر والربا يقع بها بعض موظفي الشركات -الشيخ ابن عثيمين -مشروع كبار العلماء — youtube.com
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