What is the ruling on betting?
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Question:
A man said to another, "If you eat this meal, you owe me forty riyals." He ate it but did not pay the forty riyals. He said, "First, let us ask the Shaykh. What is the ruling?"
Answer:
This is not permissible. The forty riyals are forbidden for you to take, because betting is consuming wealth unjustly. It is saying, "If you do such-and-such, you get such-and-such." This is one of the invalid forms of betting; it is consuming people's wealth unjustly.
A man said to another, "If you eat this meal, you owe me forty riyals." He ate it but did not pay the forty riyals. He said, "First, let us ask the Shaykh. What is the ruling?"
Answer:
This is not permissible. The forty riyals are forbidden for you to take, because betting is consuming wealth unjustly. It is saying, "If you do such-and-such, you get such-and-such." This is one of the invalid forms of betting; it is consuming people's wealth unjustly.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما حكم التراهن؟ #فتاوى الفوزان — youtube.com
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