Ruling on people sharing in a slaughtered animal and dividing it by lottery
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The question: The presenter (N. A. Q.) says: I am informing you that I am from a tribe in Yemen, and we sometimes share in a slaughtered animal with a group of people and divide it according to the number of people who paid for its price. When dividing it, we write the names, and one of us comes forward to place each person's name on a piece of meat, and then we disperse. After their names are placed, whoever finds a piece of meat with his name written on it takes it. This is in effect, and no one is forced to do it, so everyone is satisfied with what he finds his name on. Is this included in the lots (azlam) about which the Qur'an has prohibited? Please give us a ruling, may Allah reward you.
The Shaykh: Repeat.
The presenter: He says that they share in meat and divide it into parts, then they write their names on pieces of paper and give them to a person who distributes these pieces of paper over the meat. Then they come and open these papers, and whoever finds his name on this meat takes it. Is this from the lots (azlam) or not?
Answer: No, there is nothing wrong with this. This is a division, and these papers are like a lottery so that no one says: "This is extra" or "This is less." They agree to divide the meat into equal parts or according to their shares, then they put these papers on them so that each one knows his share. This is not from the category of lots (azlam), and this is not from the category of gambling. Yes.
The Shaykh: Repeat.
The presenter: He says that they share in meat and divide it into parts, then they write their names on pieces of paper and give them to a person who distributes these pieces of paper over the meat. Then they come and open these papers, and whoever finds his name on this meat takes it. Is this from the lots (azlam) or not?
Answer: No, there is nothing wrong with this. This is a division, and these papers are like a lottery so that no one says: "This is extra" or "This is less." They agree to divide the meat into equal parts or according to their shares, then they put these papers on them so that each one knows his share. This is not from the category of lots (azlam), and this is not from the category of gambling. Yes.
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