ShahnazZ
Striving2BeAStranger
:salam2: all,
I recently bought a $1 raffle ticket from a little girl who was selling tickets to raise money for the Child Life DayCare center at my college. The purpose of the fund-raising was to keep the center open for the children of student parents so that they could leave their children there while they went to their classes. Now I actually ended up winning a gourmet basket but then I remembered that participating in games of chance is haram. However, someone else later told me that it depends on the cause of the raffle; in this case since I donated money for the betterment and welfare of a children's center, she said it wasn't haram and that many masjids also have raffles in order to raise money for religious causes.
So what I want to know is if my gourmet basket is haram for me to keep based on the fact that although I won it from a raffle, the cause was a good one.
I recently bought a $1 raffle ticket from a little girl who was selling tickets to raise money for the Child Life DayCare center at my college. The purpose of the fund-raising was to keep the center open for the children of student parents so that they could leave their children there while they went to their classes. Now I actually ended up winning a gourmet basket but then I remembered that participating in games of chance is haram. However, someone else later told me that it depends on the cause of the raffle; in this case since I donated money for the betterment and welfare of a children's center, she said it wasn't haram and that many masjids also have raffles in order to raise money for religious causes.
So what I want to know is if my gourmet basket is haram for me to keep based on the fact that although I won it from a raffle, the cause was a good one.