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The next question we have a brother. Why is from Birmingham, UK?

He says that what type of prize money is

Acceptable in a competition if he goes in a competition and he wins money what type of prizes are acceptable and when will it not be considered gambling?

So the answer to this question is that if you participate in a competition, which is of course, hello, we're not talking about anything at Haram whether it is soccer whether it is a

Corona competition whatever it might be obviously if you participate in a Haram competition like gambling I mean obviously we're not talking about that if the

Sport or the competition is halal and

The prize money is being given by a third party you are not giving your money

Which is then being pulled together and then being given to the winner no rather you are participating

It's a free for all you walk in you register your name, you know and a third party a company, you know

A multi-billion dollar corporation or the local message it or you know somebody else is saying hey whoever comes first will get this prize whoever comes second

Will get this prize where comes third will get that prize in this case. It's all halal and legit no problems no question

However, if everybody is giving money and

Their own money is going to be used for themselves

So if somebody gives ten dollars everybody gives ten dollars and then the prize is gonna be if ten people give ten dollars each and the

Price is gonna be one hundred dollars now we get the semblance of gambling and according to this Ibn al-Qayyim and others

They have a very simple fatwa again because this is rapid Q&A

I'll just give you the final verdict and if you want more details, you know read Ibn al-Qayyim has an entire book on this and

Other olemah have given their fatwas on this bottom line summary if the people are paying money

Everyone is paying the a part of the prize money and the goal is that their own money is going to be pulled

So that you know the top winners get that money in this case

If the competition is about a generic sports

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