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Selling tickets and offering prizes to the winners from among the exhibits

26-07-2000

Question 11341

In one of the book fairs, they sold tickets for money to be given to the mujaahideen, and those who answered a question correctly were entered into a draw to be given prizes bought from the dealers who were taking part in the exhibition. 

Answer

Praise be to Allah.

We put this question to Shaykh ‘Abd al-‘Azeez ibn Baaz (may Allaah have mercy on him), who answered:

It is not permissible, because the way in which it is done is haraam.

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