Gambling is not only frowned upon and prohibited by Allah, it is ruinous and is one of the major sins because it is a form of Riba. The rate at which people bet or gamble is scary and alarming, and the fact that anyone can gamble in their comfort zone makes the situation worse.
A few years ago, people couldn’t gamble until they left their homes. The gamblers did have locations that were always hideous to perform their activities. Unfortunately today, things have changed with the help of smartphones and technological advancements. Gambling or betting platforms are now something people can easily have access to. Hardly would you go online nowadays without coming across one or two ads placed on betting. The level of publicity they give it is just too much, and there are some sets of people called comedians that promote it too.
Some online banks even give people bonuses to start their betting or gambling journey. They all are finding a way or the other to involve people in gambling because if they don’t force it down on people’s throats, how will they make their money? What bothers me is, don’t people know that betting or gambling is designed for them to lose? That is why they barely win but keep returning to it, thinking luck will be on their side one day. Before, we used to know betting as masculine, but now it is a thing of both genders. Girls now play it without shame; how sad is that! May Allah rectify us.
There is a lot of damage gambling has caused and will still cause because a larger percentage of the people involved in it won’t leave it, and more people are going to join. Recently, I came across a post about a young guy who committed suicide because he lost millions of money in it. I also knew someone who stole his friend’s generator, sold it, then used the money to gamble and still lost. Subhanallah!.
People involved in gambling do not just become addicts; some of them steal, risk their properties, borrow money, become depressed, and commit suicide, thinking they will win, forgetting that gambling is designed for them to lose. So many people have gone bankrupt due to gambling, all in the name of they want to get rich quickly.
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