Organizing Paid Cricket Tournament
One must always keep in mind the following considerations when trying to understand hadith narrations: Firstly , most hadith narrations do not relate the context of the event that they narrate. For this reason, all narrations must be collected on a particular subject and then analyzed in order to understand the overall picture. Secondly , hadith narrations must be understood in the light of the Quran and the Sunnah. This means that they must have a basis in these two primary sources of Islam . Individual narrations do not form a basis for any injunction. The problem occurs when we form an opinion based upon narrations and then look for individual verses of the Quran in order to support our opinion. This inverts the entire structure of laws in religion and often times we end up making errors. Verses of the Quran must also be understood in their respective context since Quran is not just a collection of loose verses, but a book of very highly literary value that follows a particular structure. Ghamidi sahab’s understanding of the concept of gambling has already been explained at length in the text of the economic sharia as well as the accompanying video I shared above. The real prohibition is that of devouring wealth of others through wrongful means. يَاأَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لَا تَأْكُلُوا أَمْوَالَكُمْ بَيْنَكُمْ بِالْبَاطِلِ إِلَّا أَنْ تَكُونَ تِجَارَةً عَنْ تَرَاضٍ مِنْكُمْ (29:4) Believers! Do not devour one another’s wealth by wrongful means except through trading by mutual consent. (4:29) Gambling and riba are just two of the many possible applications of the principle stated in the above verse. The situation that you described in your original question is not a matter of wrongfully devouring other people’s wealth hence it can’t be considered impermissible. I also shared a video of Ghamidi sahab above in which he commented on a situation which is similar to what you presented. With that said, you’re free to take the opinion which makes the most sense to you.