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| [MADRASA] Questions on lottery and interest |
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| Anonymous |
| 07/10/01 at 00:54:15 |
| To whom it may concern; As-Salaam-Alykum. I was told that you would be able to answer some of the questions I have about Islam. My first question is, that when Muslims purchase a lottery ticket, but plan that if they win they will use the money for the good of Islam. Is buying a lottery ticket against the rules and conducts of Islam. My second question is that when Muslims put their money in money markets or CD account in the banks in America or other non-Islamic countries and decide to give the interest their money accrues to the poor and other people who need the money, or in the way of Islam. Does Islam allow this or not? Thank you very much, Shees |
| Re: Questions on lottery and interest |
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| jannah |
| 12/02/00 at 01:52:22 |
| Lottery is haram and taking interest is haram. If you are asking "What if a person has a good intention in committing these haram acts?", it comes down to this principle in Islam: For any deed to be accepted in Islam you must have two things: 1. Ikhlas 2. Ittiba' 1. Ikhlas is sincerity of your intention. That is you are committing this act only for Allah with good niyyah. 2. Ittiba' is following the Quran and Sunnah in the _way_ you are committing this act. Classic examples: Robbing a bank to feed the poor. You are sincere perhaps but you are committing an act agains the Shariah of Islam, so it does not make this a good deed. Another is giving charity so everyone can see you give charity without the intention of doing it for Allah. So you may have #2 - giving sadaqah is an encouraged, sunnah thing, but you don't have #1 and therefore your charity isn't accepted. Let's use these two criteria on those examples you mentioned. They seem to have #1 but they do not have #2 rendering them empty useless acts that will not be accepted. For your second example if it is IMPOSSIBLE to put your money in anything but interest bearing (which really isn't true in the US) accounts, there are some scholars who say you can take the money and give it away to help the general infrastructure of a muslim country, ie the government, roads, social welfare system, hospitals, but this money is not considered charity or fee sabeelillah... you shouldn't destroy "haram" money in islam so this is the best option after that. So if this is true, why would anyone commit something haram when it won't even be counted as a good deed for them eh... By the way this is not a fatwa, please consult some knowledgable people in your area inshallah. and Allah knows best. |
| Answers on lottery and interest |
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| SuperHiMY |
| 12/04/00 at 01:02:09 |
WalaykumSalam... My first question is, that when Muslims purchase a lottery ticket, but plan that if they win they will use the money for the good of Islam. Is buying a lottery ticket against the rules and conducts of Islam. If I purchased a PIG, and decided to sell it when the price of PIGS at the market rises, and I do this with the intention to donate the proceeds of the sale of the PIG to my local neighbourhood musalah... ...What would YOU say about MY PIG money? --- Interest. Interest is a 17th century word invented by the mercantilists. These Mercs were the capitalists of their day. They had tried unsuccessfully to LEGALISE USURY for 400 years. USURY is the original and correct word to use. After 400 years, they INVENTED the word 'interest' to mean 'LOW rates of USURY.' Who could argue with LOW usury rate? eh? The MUSLIMS and the CATHOLICS did. The Catholic Church waged a 400 year JIHAD, yes in the Correct sense of the word as we muslims use it, they waged a 400 year Jihad against the USURY people. With the new category of 'LOW USURY' and marketing of the term 'INTEREST', Europe got suckered into the current Interest system. (for more on this, see 'Religion and the Rise of Capitalism', a rather lenghty book.) After taking 400 years to make the christians accept RIBA/USURY in Europe, with colonialism, it took less than a century for the Muslim Ummah to even forget how to understand how serious Even Witnessing a RIBA Contract is. Remember, RIBA, the arabic word does NOT mean INTEREST. It Means in classical arabic: "...To add [a Burden] to [something]." It this BURDEN adding that is HARAM. Making YOU do MY work and then having YOU PAY ME for having tricked you into doing my work in the first place. Authentic Hadith confirms that their are 70 or 73 types of RIBA[Burden Adding], of which getting fixed rates of return on deposited money, is just one of the 70 or 73 Ribas. The evil genius of the DisBelievers is that they have Reduced RIBA to mean ONLY INTEREST as far as most educated, well meaning, sincere muslims are concerned. Plus, when you put your money into a big money center Riba Bank, even at a zero Riba return rate, they are still using YOUR deposited money to make riba loans to zina businesses, beer companies, rubber bullet makers who export their weapons to Al-Quds...you get the idea. What do you do with the INTEREST MONEY due to you? Earmark it and give it to some muslim who is sincere about getting OUT of a RIBA loan. Use the interest money to pay interest money. Himy. |
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