Gambling

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Would a raffle be considered gambling if it involved people buying tickets for £1 each that were all then put in a container and one winner picked out at random who wins an expensive prize?

Mohammad Saeed Bahmanpour, Sheikh Mohammad Saeed Bahmanpour is lecturer of Islamic Studies at the Islamic College for Advanced Studies, London, and a visiting lecturer at the University of Cambridge, Faculty of Oriental... Answer updated 1 year ago

Salamun alaykum

Yes this practice is considered as gambling. In general any practice which involves a prize achieved from the property of the participants is gambling.