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Is playing poker not right (Haram) in Islam?

I wanted to know if you play poker with your friends and the winner gets a set amount of money from other players; if this is right to do in Islam or if it's Haram and you should not do it?

Can you please also explain the reason why for what ever side you're with...

Thank you in anticipation...

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fullhouse 		Which would explain why Facebook poker is full to the brim of Bosnian and Indonesian Muslims

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Davido 		it is only right if it is stripp poker

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Davido 		Gambling is Haram/Forbidden in Islam.

1. Gambling is addictive and many people stake their hard-earned wages in forms of gambling and lose their wealth and even homes, while their families go hungry. This leads to many social ills, including the break up of families, and Islam is about building families and providing for them, not neglecting them and destroying them.

2. In all forms of gambling, including the National Lottery, only a very small proportion of people wins. The majority is losers. In effect gambling takes money from the vast majority of people

3. Intense jealousy begins as losers look enviously at the winners. This causes hatred among people, and Islam is about creating love and brotherhood not, not hatred.

4. Gamblers spend much time and effort in dreaming " what I would do if I won a million", longing and wishing that time and effort could be better spent in looking after their families and remembering Allah.

5. Islam wants you to rely on ALLAH and earn your income with your feet firmly planed on the ground, and not rely on dreams and the gambling. This is a form of minor SHIRK (relying on other than ALLAH)

6. Allah is our creator and He knows the best, and in his wisdom He has made all forms of gambling forbidden for us and as Muslims we place our trust in Him.



Read this:
http://www.witness-pioneer.org/vil/Articles/misc/lottery.html

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fullhouse 		In the practice and teachings of Islam, gambling at any time is haram.

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Davido 		It is gambling.
As gambling is supposedly forbidden for Muslims then figure it out yourself.

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Davido 		Peace be unto you,

Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) said that IF any of you play with your friend (or someone) which is depend on bet (gambling etc) so he should take Shahada again.

The meaning of this Hadith is that if you do Gambling EVEN if you talk about it than you are out of Islam means you become a KAFIR.. So beaware!!! Gambling is forbidden in Islam.

"They ask thee concerning wine and gambling. Say, 'In them is great sin and some benefit for men; but the sin is greater than the benefit." [Qur'an 2:19]

In the above aayah, the permissibility and non-permissibility of wine and gambling is not clarified. Soon after understanding the tone of discountenance in the verse, the highly ranked companions of the Holy Prophet (Peace be upon Him) abstained from them. On the other hand, Muslims in general were still involved in them and the Prophet (Peace be upon Him) had not said anything that indicated their prohibition, until Allah revealed the following verse:

"O believers! Intoxicants and gambling, worshipping stones and divination by arrows are impure, of shaytan's handiwork: refrain from such abomination that ye may prosper. " [Qur'an 5:90]

Thanks,
Mr. Khan

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fullhouse 		Yes in Islam gambling is wrong - command is copied from the Bible.

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Davido 		Yes ir is. So is gambling. It is breaking rules of the glorious Quran.
http://www.al-islam.org/laws/.
Hope this helps. :D

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Davido 		Yes it is forbidden in Islam to gamble in general not only poker because you take what does not belong to you.
Plus most of gambling depend on deceiving your opponent which is also forbidden in Islam

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fullhouse 		Gambling is Haram...

''The Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) and his companions were against any form of gambling - card games, horse racing, gambling machines, or lottery as it is defined as a game of haphazard in all matters particularly a game of chance by means of divinatory arrows.
The Holy Qur'an says: "O ye who believe! Intoxicants and gambling, (dedication of) stones, and (divination by) arrows, are an abomination,- of Satan's handwork: eschew such (abomination), that ye may prosper. Satan's plan is (but) to excite enmity and hatred between you, with intoxicants and gambling, and hinder you from the remembrance of God, and from prayer: will ye not then abstain?" (Sura Ma'idah 5:90,91).''


@CUTE GUY - Everything is not Haram and plenty of things are Halal. Haram things are bad for you and we live clean lives inside and out. We choose to follow Islam ergo we choose to avoid Haram things.
Tell us what is it that is Haram for us that is sooooo wonderful for you that you do? Go on inform me please...

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Davido 		What is halal in Islam?? Everything is haram for them. But it is upto a person who looks at it the way he wants to. Playing poker is anyways bad if you lose everything you have and start begging on the very street outside the casino where you used to play poker??????? LOl

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Davido 		yes, but so are many things... the main thing is not to get caught by the morality police.

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