Lottery

As lottery is haram for one of the reason that people are required to work hard and employ their thoughts for something good to earn, than how good is it if someone is not making any effort and waiting for parents' inheritance to be granted to him/her?For the reason that inherited money is allowed in islam, does not it make people lazy for making any effort on their own to earn money which is quite similar to the lottery. In lottery you put your money in and wait till you hit the jackpot which obviously doesn?t involve much of their efforts and time.

Dear Scholars:as-salamu ?Alaikum! Recently, my cousin won the lottery draw worth five millions pesos. It is called lotto. It is a part of games and amusement of Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office, one of the agencies of the government. She bothered a lot because most her neighbors considered the money as Haram while others claimed that it is not Haram because the proceeds are being paid by Lotto players will go to charity works and services particularly among indigents. Now, which is which, Haram or not? Jazakum Allah khayran. 

 Salamu Alikum, I 'm a disabled man and I 'm not able to work. I need some complicated surgeries that goverment medical insurance doesn't pay for it. I also want to go back to school and get some degree that may help me  get a job in the future.I have never played the lottery before. I 'm wondering if I tried it for few times for small amount of money, Would that be Haram? I 'm hoping to be able to pay for my medical and educational needs if I won.

As-salamu `alaykum. I have a question about the Green Card Lottery. The US government gives permanent residence visas to many people every year through this lottery system. Is it allowed for Muslims, according to the Shari`ah, to participate in this lottery?

I want to ask if the lottery is Halal according to Islam, and can we get money in this way?

Dear prominent scholaras-Salamu `alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh My question is about the reasons behind the prohibition of gambling and lottery in islam and in the case of these reasons not present.allah Almighty says in the Qur'an:'O you who believe, truly intoxicants and gambling and divination by arrows are an abomination of Satan's doing; avoid them in order that you may be successful. Assuredly Satan desires to sow enmity and hatred among you by means of intoxicants and gambling, and to hinder you from the remembrance of Allah and from prayer. Will you not then desist?First of all, shoul we consider avoid at the same level as haram ? and why ?? From this verse we can understand the reasons from Allah asking us to ovoid gambling. The reason is the Satan wants us to lose our time on playing gambling games and then not think of Allah and the prayers and also to create enmity between players through the game. This is usually the case for card- like games (e.g. pocker, ?) where the game may stands for hours (during that time the players are of course not prying and not thinking of Allah) and the players are plying against each other so problems and thus enmity may arise between them. But my concern is about the lottery example where you don?t really lose time (it is once a week and it takes you really 2 minutes to play so we can?t consider that this may prevent you from thinking of Allah or the prayers) and you don?t play against others so no enmity my arise. Ok, enmity may arise if you win and they lose, but this more ?Hassad? than other think and this can also be the case if you win through commerce. In this case the reasons behind the p rohibition are absent. Can we in this case consider that the lottery is premised?also the amount of money you play is low, and if the person knows that he is not going to be addicted to this. Some other persons told me that the reason behind prohibition of lottery is that Muslims are not allowed to earn money without work, but in the other hand I did read some topics in the internet where Internet lottery games where you don?t pay to play are premised. In this case also the Muslim is earning money without really work for it. And in my opinion you can loose more time for these games than the one you are paying for. Since it is free and there are many of them in the internet and thus you play much much more. Can you please give me your detailed point of view on this. I think you very much for the time you will devote to answer this question and pray Allah to guide all of us to his straight way.