The headline sounds preposterous but nothing is impossible nowadays. With a big amount of luck, you can actually get free petrol/gas for life! Imagine, free gas/petrol for life! Isn’t that wonderful?! You can continue to show off your fancy car to everybody!
Now that you know the whole story, feel free to fly over to Florida, play Florida Lottery and press your luck! ;-)
Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the World; and may His blessings and peace be upon our Prophet Muhammad and upon all his Family and Companions.
By all means, it is completely Haram for a Muslim to take part in lottery, since it is a form of gambling, which Allah, The Exalted, has forbidden in the Qur'an and mentioned it in the context of the greatest prohibitions.
Allah Says (interpretation of meaning): {O you who believe! Intoxicants (all kinds of alcoholic drinks), gambling, AlAnsâb, and AlAzlâm (arrows for seeking luck or decision) are an abomination of Shaitân's (Satan) handiwork. So avoid (strictly all) that (abomination) in order that you may be successful. Shaitân (Satan) wants only to excite enmity and hatred between you with intoxicants (alcoholic drinks) and gambling, and hinder you from the remembrance of Allâh and from As-Salât (the prayer). So, will you not then abstain?} [5: 90-91].
So, it is your duty to behave like the Sahabah (The Prophet's (Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam) companions (Radiya Allahu Anhum)) who replied while listening the above verse: 'We have abstained, we have abstained'.
In addition, prohibitions such as Riba (usury and interest) gambling and so on are forbidden at all times and in all places, i.e. different situations and changes of time do not abrogate Shari'a rulings, nor restrict them.
Allah knows best.
Source: Fatwa issued by IslamWeb Dot Net on the 8th of July 2002
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