EVIL Effects of Gambling  

EVIL Effects of Gambling  

                    Gambling entails religious, social, moral and economic harms.  Some of them are enumerated below:

1.                  Gambling distracts those who partake the game from the remembrance of Allah and Prayer.  When a gambler sits continuously for hours together, he is so absorbed in it that he forgets everything around him; rather he becomes unconscious of his own self.  He forgets his households and family.  How, then, can he take care of his Prayer?

2.                   Gambling sows the seeds of disputes and quarrels among the gamblers which ultimately assume the shape of enmity and hatred among them.  This point is made clear in the following Verse :

 “Only would Satan sow hatred and strife among you, by wine, and games of chance and turn you aside from the remembrance of Allah, and from Prayer “Will you not, therefore, abstain from them?” (5:91)                                                                  

3.                  The sin of gambling is greater than its benefit.

This Verse has enunciated two invaluable principles namely:

 (a) Dispelling mischiefs is precedent to acquiring benefits and

       (b)    The commission of lesser evil is obligatory when the commission of  either of the two evils is necessarily essential.

4.                  It corrupts morals making people sluggish in waiting for providence by whimsical means and giving up activists essential for making earnings, agriculture, industry, business-the foundation stone of social living and human prosperity and happiness in this mundane life.

5.                  It enslaves the gambler who becomes a mute slave in the hands of gambling and seldom succeeds in abandoning it.  When he earns some benefit, his greed for gambling increases and when he loss the game, even then his interest in the games of chance increases to make good the loss.  In this way he remains awfully engaged in gambling till the becomes a destitute.

6.                    It brings about a sudden havoc in the countries due to sheer waste of wealth by losing the game.

7.                    It usurps the wealth of towns and transfers it to the hands of the mischief-mongers within and outside the country.  Thus gambling is a root-cause of innumerable economic evils reducing many rich people to destitution and ultimately forcing them to commit suicide.

We seek refuge in Allah from gambling and its ancillary sins.

The mundane benefits of gambling as compared with its great harms and ruinous complexities are mere whimsical benefits.  If fortunately enough, you get these benefits the ultimate aftermaths thereof are unhealthy.  Some of the petty benefits of gambling are enumerated below:

1.                  It gives some transitory pleasure to the winning gambler, for this pleasure is followed by grief as a reaction, then he suffers loss by gambling.

2.                  It promises munificence to the poor just as people winning lottery, a form of gambling, build asylums and hospitals and do other good works.  But the fact is that the wealth acquired by unlawful means and spent on good works have no reward because Allah is Pure and He accepts only pure things.  The same thing is true about gambling or lottery for it brings about a benefit to a very small group of people and causes a crushing loss to the majority of them.

3.                  It makes a destitute a rich man all of a sudden without any toll and in the next moment reduces a rich man to a destitute.

We seek refuge in Allah against gambling and destitution accrues therefrom.

In short all the benefits of gambling enumerated above are imaginary and whimsical whereas its harms are real.

When the gambler spends his wealth for a fancied profit and when a person wastes his hard earned money for the fancied things having no existence, he corrupts his thinking and weakness his reason.  Gambling has forced a large number of gamblers to commit suicide or made them content with living a life of humiliation and objection.