What is the ruling on betting, and is there any permissible betting? We ask for a detailed explanation of this.
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Question:
What is the ruling on what some people do regarding betting, which they claim is legitimate? And if some of them say that betting is forbidden, they say, "It is because you fear being defeated." What has Allah made permissible regarding betting? We ask for a detailed explanation of this. May Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
Betting with money and what is called racing are not permissible except in what the Lawgiver has specified, which is three things. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said, "There is no racing except with a spear, a hoof, or a horse." So these three are permissible to take compensation for in racing, because they are tools of jihad; they train one for jihad in the cause of Allah (Mighty and Majestic).
Riding horses, riding camels, and archery, all of these are tools of jihad. So taking compensation for whoever wins in these things is taken with right. As for anything other than these, it is not permissible to take compensation, because the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) restricted its permissibility to these three. So taking it in anything other than these three is consuming wealth by falsehood and without right, and it falls under gambling.
Gambling is also one of the forms of betting. Allah has named it and forbidden it, associating it with intoxicants:[Al-Ma'idah 5:90] Indeed, Satan only wants to cause between you enmity and hatred in Sunan al-Bayhaqi 16:4? So gambling is the betting in which wealth is spent without right. Yes.
What is the ruling on what some people do regarding betting, which they claim is legitimate? And if some of them say that betting is forbidden, they say, "It is because you fear being defeated." What has Allah made permissible regarding betting? We ask for a detailed explanation of this. May Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
Betting with money and what is called racing are not permissible except in what the Lawgiver has specified, which is three things. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said, "There is no racing except with a spear, a hoof, or a horse." So these three are permissible to take compensation for in racing, because they are tools of jihad; they train one for jihad in the cause of Allah (Mighty and Majestic).
Riding horses, riding camels, and archery, all of these are tools of jihad. So taking compensation for whoever wins in these things is taken with right. As for anything other than these, it is not permissible to take compensation, because the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) restricted its permissibility to these three. So taking it in anything other than these three is consuming wealth by falsehood and without right, and it falls under gambling.
Gambling is also one of the forms of betting. Allah has named it and forbidden it, associating it with intoxicants:
O 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.
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا إِنَّمَا الْخَمْرُ وَالْمَيْسِرُ وَالْأَنصَابُ وَالْأَزْلَامُ رِجْسٌ مِّنْ عَمَلِ الشَّيْطَانِ فَاجْتَنِبُوهُ لَعَلَّكُمْ تُفْلِحُونَIndeed, Satan only wants to cause between you enmity and hatred in intoxicants and gambling, and to turn you away from the remembrance of Allah and from prayer. So will you not desist?
أن يوقع بينكم العداوة والبغضاء في الخمر والميسر، ويصدكم عن ذكر الله وعن الصلاة، فهل أنتم منتهون
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما حكم المراهنة، وهل هناك مراهنة حلال، نرجو التفصيل في ذلك؟ — youtube.com
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