Ramadan: Is it gambling when the odds are in my favor?

no card game has 50/50 odds

its always in someones favour..53% 47% etc etc

gambling is putting money on these odds with no tangible effort ...so whether in favour or not is not relevant..

even it was 90% in your favour its still gambling - e.g odds of 1-9

Assalamu alaykum Really it is gambling which is haram in Islam when you put money in the odds whether the winning would be in your favor or not

If you are putting your money down on the table without complete certainty of the outcome, that's gambling. No matter what the odds are. That's my opinion anyway.

Have a great night! :)

If you put your own money on the line yes it is still gambling.

Assalamualikum,

Well,I would suggest not to even go near to those things which might lead to sins or there's suspection of becoming sins....The companions of Prophet(sm) used to detect those things which makes them feel like sins might happen....

So,we'll not even think about playing any kinda role in Gambling...not as player...not even as a viewer..and not even as a thinker...Rather,we'll stop this game if we find it happening around us....

I hope my sentences makes sense...and at least clear a bit of your confusion...InshAllah!!

If you could throw a dice and know where it will land... that's not gambling.

Quran 17:36 translation

And do not follow what you have no knowledge of; surely the hearing, the sight and the heart, all of these, shall be questioned about that.

http://corpus.quran.com/qurandictionary.jsp?q=ysr

ي س ر Ya-Siin-Ra = become gentle/tractable/manageable/easy/submissive/liberal, become little in quantity/paltry / no weight or worth, come from left, divide into parts/portions, make easy/smooth, adapt/accommodate, play with gaming arrows (al maysiri), a game for stakes/wagers involving risk.

For those who always wanted to know what "arrows of chance / gaming arrows" were. Lane gives quite a detailed description of what was involved. I'll explain my take on it: a group of 10 (or however many there are) buys an animal on credit (e.g. camel), they slaughter the animal and divide it into 10 portions (equaling the number of people in the group). They assign a number to each portion of meat, e.g. portion 1 is marked 1, portion 2 is marked 2, portion 3 is marked 3 etc up to 10. They take 10 arrow heads (no feathers) and mark each arrow head with a number, arrow head 1 marked 1 (this corresponds to meat portion 1), arrow head 2 marked 2 (this corresponds to meat portion 2) etc up to 7, arrows 8, 9 and 10 are left with no mark. They assign a person to shuffle the arrow heads and distribute them to the 10 players. If someone gets arrow 1 they take meat portion 1, if someone gets arrow 2 they take meat portion 2 and so on. Whoever gets the unmarked arrows (3 people in this example) have to pay the entire value of the slaughtered animal, that was initially bought on credit.

As long as there is even a 0.00000001% possibility that you lose, then yes it is gambling, and HARAM.

Prophet Muhammad : Yihaa, I had SEX, I had SEX

Bukhari : What? Dont Lie Muhammad!

Prophet Muhammad : I am not lying, Sharmouta.. Ask my childbride Aisha

Prophet Muhammad : Aisha Begum, tell Bukhari, didnt I fondle you During your Menses even Bukhari noted it in his book refer Bukhari (6:298) then we got laid, didnt we?

Chil░dbride Aisha : thats fine muhammad, u been fon.dling me since i was age 6, but you never could raise your thingy or hold the erection!

Bukhari : *rolls his eyes & notes down silently*

Muhammad used to think that he had SEXUAL relations with his wives & slav░es while he actually had NOT

- (Sahih al-Bukhari, Volume 7, Book 71, Number 660)

░░░░░ Sahih = Authentic islam scripture ░░░░░