Is gambling really haram?
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I find he whole concept of trying to determine whether each things is haram or not haram like a choice to be a blind donkey. If I amtold, and I also know by myself tht something is harmful, very harmful. Am I some kind of idiot that I am going to ask whether it is haram or not. And if it is not haram, what? Am I going to use it or eat it in spite of knowing that it is very harmful? What is this haram or ot haram? some magic word that if you use it makes harmless what is harmful?
At what level of irresponsibility are we?
As to alcoholhavin good things, the Qur'an says it all, it does, but the bad things are much more and they detroy societies.That somepeple ar able to be moderate dos not make it less a destroyer of societie, because some people are not the whole societies and if the Qur'an doe not make it "haram", our choice to enjoy something because we are able to be "moderate" but ignore that because of our use we are encouraging a wholesale evil for the whole of society it is our responsibility to. We have responsibility to ourselve, but we also haveresponsibility towards others that are more vulnerable. Se y not be destroyed by alcohol or gambling but we do nknow that others will be destroyed by them. By abstaining we help others and we help the society we live in.
Salaam
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I find he whole concept of trying to determine whether each things is haram or not haram like a choice to be a blind donkey.
That's the entire objective of religion...
Blind donkey makes it easier to control..The "Absolute Dualistic View Of The World" (Good vs Evil, Kosher vs Tereifa, Halal vs Haram) was started or invented by Persians.
And carried forward and furtherly enhanced by Judaism -> Christianity -> Islam...On the main topic,
Things which involved "Zero Sum Game" (Win or Lose) without any possibility of "Win Win" (read Mutual Beneficiary) and there's no additional value being produced in the process generally shall resulted in more hatred and dissent inside the society. Which then resulted in broken society, conflicts, riots, war.Does gambling falls into that category? Well it depends...
If the loser doesn't mind losing their money and he sees that he gained a value even when he's losing then it will not fall into the above category. -
human emotions are unable to control in some specific points of life.. specially when other person want to give you problems and sadness , its difficult to love him in return, the law of emotions bring negetive results for rival, competetor and specially ur enemy..
showing good emotions for frd or sympathiser is very easy task .. same like swiming with the flow of water is easy..
but showing good emotions from inside to ur enemy is a difficult task... same like swiming opposite of the flow of water..there our test start and 99 in 100 find it difficult and usually carry on with flow..
two three times in my life i wanted to take revenge from somebody and i was in a position one day to take revenge but i forgive just due to the condition that God like those who forgive.. but still this day i hate her... why i hate her i really sometimes not understand...
peace
Cease that hatred. You might restrain yourself from action thanks to your spirit, but the inside hatred and wish for revenge is driven by the instinct. What she did to earn your hatred will be on her platter and load her on the way to the next life, so this superficial revenge is nothing you need. However if you sort out yourself and love her this is a show of your personal development. It is connected to what Jesus said about caring for your enemy (i.e. the one who would wish to harm you).
Every time someone does bad to us we do not need revenge for the wrongdoer will receive the full value of their misdeed in return. Wrongdoing punishes itself. That was for the first time explicitly taught by Yese'aya (alternative spelling Isaiah or Arabic ى once upon a time.
The best weapon against our Satan is empathy and did you know that helping someone against our feelings is very praiseworthy? It is more praiseworthy than helping someone we are inclined towards even if it is praiseworthy too.
And a person having enemies is a person in need of (spiritual) help. We should not have any enemies. God has no enemies. Enemies is something we create for ourselves. It is a human phenomenon. Having enemies is caused by uncontrolled emotions.
It is tough with someone having done wrong towards you, but like I wrote the misdeed is returned in full to him or her without you doing anything. It is as if they punish themselves. Deteriorating the spirit of your soul is giving each one a disadvantageous situation and it comes without any external judgment. A person creates their own future and also a person's doom is caused by themselves.
If we can be better and cast out a rope for them to catch before they fall off the cliff (metaphorical), this marks our fine spiritual development and qualification to become a true manager. We will become masters then. It is either master or remain in a fleshly world as servants/slaves in what you tend to call Hell (from Germanic hel which would translate to English whole) or the Semitic Jehennom. The true story is that it is a kind of purgatory, intended to be a testing ground whether a person rejects the worldly or not by their innate intelligence to realize the world is a "scam" (delusion) and actually corrupting (degrading) towards it test subjects.
Every of today's angels (controllers) have gone through a kind of testing ground for development.
Be well
Amenuel -
That's the entire objective of religion...
Blind donkey makes it easier to control..The "Absolute Dualistic View Of The World" (Good vs Evil, Kosher vs Tereifa, Halal vs Haram) was started or invented by Persians.
And carried forward and furtherly enhanced by Judaism -> Christianity -> Islam...Indeed. The so-called monotheisms are actually dualisms because the God is not one as there is a "minus" versus the "plus". "Good" and "evil" are both orchestrated by one and the same "Force" (God) and notice my use of quotation marks one good and evil.
But whether we fall for the "evil" (or rather said corrupting) programming or not we are responsible for. This is our trial. This is our trial whether we develop into merging with the unity of God or fall into the arranged trap (as orchestrated by God or rather the present managers/angels when this cycle of development started) and the trap is delusion and entrapment in this physical world.
The only real monotheism is one that is "pan", i.e. incorporating everything.
I wrote maybe a year ago about God being like a singularity and it can still be used as an analogy.
Be well
Amenuel