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What is the wisdom behind the prohibition of gambling?
Answer: Gambling makes a person rely on accidents, luck and wishful thinking for his earnings, instead of hard work, the sweat of his brow and paying respect to the ways prescribed by Allah
how does gambling affect an individual and the society as a whole?
Answer: Problem gambling can have a detrimental effect on personal finances as the attempt to chase loses become unmanageable. As well as spending wages, savings and spare cash, debts can also be a feature of problem gambling as a result of borrowings and loans to cover gambling loses.
-Gambling in other religions
Answer: Gambling in Hinduism

History presumes that Hinduism was formed in India around 2000 B.C., but the founder is unknown. Followers believe that its approach to life has always existed. With more adherents than any other religion except Christianity and Islam, the Hindu faith is most populous in Asian countries. A collection of sacred readings in the Santana Dharma conveys the “never beginning nor ending way ” philosophy of the religion. Other scriptures reflect conflicting guidance about gambling in Hinduism with disapproval as well as tolerance. The Manu Smriti provides a general prohibition against the practice.

“Drinking, gambling, women (not lawfully wedded wives) and hunting, in that order, he should know to be the very worst four in the group of (vices) born of desire.”

Guidance for the Hare Krishna cult explicitly prohibits gambling.

“Truthfulness is destroyed by gambling. This is quite obvious. Gambling turns a person into a liar, a cheat. Gambling invariably puts one into anxiety and fuels greed, envy, and anger.”

Gambling in Buddhism

Gautama Siddhartha, the Buddha, was born to a king in modern day Nepal in 563 B.C. Gambling was an accepted activity in his father’s ancient kingdom and one that was widely practiced. The Tripiṭaka contains the holy scriptures of Buddhism, and the English translations fill 40 volumes to address topics that include gambling in Buddhism. Known as “the enlightened one”, the Buddha expressed disapproval of gambling as an unskilled activity.

“There are these six dangers of being addicted to gambling. In winning, one begets hatred; in losing, one mourns the loss of one’s wealth; one’s word is not accepted in court; one is avoided by both friends and officials; one is not sought after for marriage because people say a gambler cannot support a wife.”

Gambling in Judaism

Authors of the Old Testament composed its 39 books of holy scriptures over centuries that ranged from approximately 1657 B.C. to around 443 B.C. Stories of prophetic oracles, instructions for priests, royal court proceedings, historical records and teachings for the faithful. The Torah, the first five books contain Judaism’s most important writings, and Jews generally believe that Moses wrote the words of God in them. The second book, Exodus, contains the 10 Commandments, and the last one equates gambling in Judaism with coveting.

“Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor’s.”

Gambling in Christianity

The New Testament contains 27 books that describe a new faith after the birth of Jesus. Without specifically prohibiting gambling in Christianity, the faith cautions against practices that violate biblical principles such as greed, materialism and covetousness.

“No one should seek their own good, but the good of others.”

“A greedy man brings trouble to his family.”

“So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.”

“Everything that is not of faith is sin.”

“No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”

“But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.”

Christianity observes the 10 Commandments as essential religious guidance, including the prohibition against coveting.

Gambling in Maoism

The thoughts of Chinese leader Mao Zedong attracted followers to adopt his political theories. Maoism taught that the peasant class possessed the essential qualities necessary for revolution. Mao’s theory purported that their capabilities made them more likely to stage a revolution and to establish socialism in China than the workers in the industrial sectors. He was the founder of the People’s Republic of China and chairman from 1949 until his death in 1976.

Maoism is a utopian concept that offers justice and equality for everyone, but its ideals were difficult for followers to uphold. Mao outlawed gambling in 1949 when he assumed power in the Communist Party. The philosophy rejects gambling in Maoism for these reasons:

wasting time

encouraging corruption

supporting the “Four Olds”: habits, ideas, culture and customs

The Criminal Law of the People’s Republic of China states the consequences of gambling:

“Whoever, for the purpose of profit, gathers people to engage in gambling, runs a gambling house or makes gambling his profession shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance and shall also be fined.”

Hadiths and Ayaat
Answer: Shaytaan wants only to excite enmity and hatred between you with intoxicants (alcoholic drink) and gambling, and hinder you from the remembrance of Allaah and from al-salaat (the prayer). So, will you not then abstain?”[al-Maa’idah 5:90-91]

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Examples of najash
Animal auctions at cattle markets (especially horses)

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Meaning of najash
The prohibited practice of deceiving and inciting a potential buyer during the course of pre-sale negotiations or bidding by egging him on, either through insincere bidding on the part of a spectator (such as bidding with no intention of buying and merely in order to have the would-be buyer raise his bid), or false statements on the part of the seller himself (such as the seller claiming that the commodity is of greater value than its true worth).

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ribaa (interest, usury) is haraam wherever it exists and whatever form it takes. It is haraam for both the owner of the capital and whoever borrows it from him with interest, whether the borrower is rich or poor.
Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):

“Those who eat Ribaa will not stand (on the Day of Resurrection) except like the standing of a person beaten by Shaytaan (Satan) leading him to insanity.

Riba in the pre-Islamic period consisted of the doubling and redoubling [of money or commodities], and in the age [of the cattle]. At maturity, the creditor would say to the debtor, ‘Will you pay me, or increase [the debt]’? If the debtor had anything, he would pay. Otherwise, the age of the cattle [to be repaid] would be increased ... If the debt was money or a commodity, the debt would be doubled to be paid in one year, and even then, if the debtor could not pay, it would be doubled again; one hundred in one year would become two hundred. If that was not paid, the debt would increase to four hundred. Each year the debt would be doubled. This existed in pre-Islamic times and also persisted while the message of Islam was then new.

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Wajahat’s example of the skinny cow being sold for 1M pkr is an example of overbidding (najash)

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Group 3- adil raiyan, tareque, arf and mash also zeeshan

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Group 3- adil raiyan, tareque, arf and mash also zeeshan

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Lottery tickets are haram beacuse they are considered as gambling, according to quran and sunnah: gambling is as bad as taking in intoxicants(alcohol), it hinders the believer away from doing the right thing and disturbs the ability to work and earn forcing the person to rely on gambling to earn their daily bread

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1)loan riba is conditional increament in the orignal loan. the increament is stipulated as of the commencement of the loan
2)debt riba is an increment in the debt at the time when its due .asking for increment when debtor defaults repaying
3)the diffrence between debt and loan riba is that debt riba has to be paid within a time limit and loan riba has to be paid whenever possible but increment will keep increasing
4)oh ye who beileve! Devour not usurt doubled or mutiplied but fear Allah that ye may prosper (130:Baqarah)
oh yeh who beileve! fear Allah and give up what remains of your demand for usury if ye are indeed believer (278:Baqarah

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-What is loan riba?
-what is debt riba?
-what are the difference between the two?
-provide evidence from Quran/Hadith

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-What is the wisdom behind the prohibition of gambling?
-how does gambling affect an individual and the society as a whole?
-Gambling in other religions
-Provide evidence from Quran/Hadith

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Do lottery tickets fall into the category of gambling
-what made you come to your conclusion
-Law of UAE regarding gambling
--Provide evidence from Quran/Hadith

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Explain Sales Riba make sure to talk about Riba al Fadl and Riba an Nasee'a
-Explain Mubadalah
-Are there any alternatives to sales riba
--Provide evidence from Quran/Hadith

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what is the ruling on taking interest based loans from the bank for an urgent need, such as business, medical treatment, marriage etc?
-If riba is haram, dealing with it is haram aswell. then how did it manage to develop in the muslim world? what are the causes?

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Group 4 answers; fattah, anas, areeb, rehman, muzzamil and oan.

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Group 4 answers; fattah, anas, areeb, rehman, muzzamil and oan.

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(1)The word riba means excess, increase, or addition. From a Shariah point of view, it can be interpreted as: an excess compensation or unjustified return in a lending, borrowing, or sale transaction. The most common example is taking a loan from a conventional bank: the bank gives a loan, and the borrower repays the money at a later date with a percentage increase over the original amount. There are 2 types of sales riba; (1) Riba al-fadl (Riba in sales contract): This riba can only happen in a sale or exchange transaction of a commodity; this type of riba only applies to commodities like: dates, barley, rice, wheat, oil, sugar, cotton, etc. A sale is qualified as Riba al-fadl if the commodity has a:

Delay in time or deferment of the exchange of commodities

Difference in quality in exchange of similar commodities

(2) Riba al-Nasiyah (Riba in loan contract): This is the commonly understood type of riba. It's an increase in payment from a borrower to a lender over the original loan amount charged by the lender due to delay in time of payment. This type of riba only applies to a loan, not a credit sale.It does not matter whether the increase over the loan amount is fixed at the beginning of the contract, or at the end of the contract if the borrower didn't pay. Any pre-determined or pre-agreed increase, or any extra amount over the original loan amount charged by the lender is considered as riba.

(2) Mubadala is an Arabic term that translates into "swap" or "swapping". It is an exchange of two counter-values such as price for commodity, currency for currency, price for usufruct, or commodity for commodity. Mubadala also involves also the exchange of commodity for price.

(3 & 4) Yes, there are alternatives to riba such as trading;
Allah says in the Qur’an: “Allah has permitted trade and forbidden riba”. In trading there is the cure to Riba. Seen as a system trade is Muamalaat.

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Explain Najash and give examples, with evidence