Waleed Basyouni – Am I Allowed To Purchase Raffle Tickets – Ask The
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The speaker discusses the restriction of guests' participation in a lottery event where they will receive a prize for a random number. The restriction is related to the use of tickets and merchandise, and is not allowed for certain events or holidays. The speaker suggests that if a person buys a ticket and is not paying anything, they can receive a gift for their participation, but it is not allowed to be given to them.
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As-salamu alaykum Shaykh.
Wa alaykum as-salam.
How are you today?
Alhamdulillah.
Alhamdulillah.
JazakAllah.
We have a question about raffle.
Raffle, okay.
Yeah, when people go attend an event, they
give them a ticket, they call it raffle
ticket for a prize at the end of
the event, or they buy a ticket and
at the end they have a raffle, you
know, and then they give them a prize.
So what is the Islamic ruling on this?
Bismillah, alhamdulillah, wa salatu wa salam wa rasulillah.
If these tickets, let's say you go to
an event, everybody get a ticket, then they
pick a number and whoever that person's number
is will receive a gift.
He doesn't pay anything for entry or anything
like that to be eligible to receive that
ticket where the raffle will take place.
This allowed, it's a gift, it's a random
given gift from the organizer, so it is
allowed, there's nothing wrong with that.
But if I purchase a dinner ticket, for
example, or I go to a store and
I purchase a merchandise and every person who
purchased something from the store will be given
a number, then there is a random, or
there is a coupon that you fill up
your information and you put it, then they
will pick a name randomly later on.
In this case, if you purchase the ticket,
or this merchandise, for the intention of entering
this lottery, entering this raffle, it became a
form of qimar, gambling, and is not allowed,
and something that is in Islam, not allowed.
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا إِنَّمَا الْخَمْرُ وَالْمَيْسُرُ وَالْأَنصَابُ
وَالْأَزْلَامُ رِجْزُوا مِنْ عَمَلِ الشَّيْطَانِ فَاجْتَنِبُوهُ لَعَلَّكُمْ
تُفْرِحُونَ Allah SWT told us this is from
the shaytan, part of what he said in
this verse is the gambling, any form of
gambling, where you put money, hoping to get
extra money, depends on luck basically.
And that's what it is here, so it
became forbidden and it's not allowed.
But if you're buying the ticket because you
want to attend this event, you purchase this
merchandise because you need it, then the seller
or the organizer of this dinner or whatever
you go is giving you this as an
extra incentive or something to attract more customers
to come, and he will not increase the
price of the merchandise, and he will not
calculate the raffle and the value of it
in the merch.
So for example, this is a dollar from
this store, but he will sell it for
a dollar twenty cents, because he knows there
is a gift or a raffle will be
done afterwards.
In this case it's not allowed for the
seller to do that, but it's a dollar
here, dollar here, but the only thing I
give you extra gift if you are the
lucky number, if this lucky number comes up,
that will be allowed.
So to summarize this, if you're going to
purchase something, it's your intention to purchase it
for the gift, for the raffle, hoping that
to win, that's haram.
If you're not paying anything, completely free, it
is allowed to have this gift that is
given to you, and it is not allowed
if also you purchase something with higher price,
just because you want to, you know, you
might get that gift, because that's also a
form of gambling.