The Fatwa Department Research Committee - chaired by Sheikh `Abd al-Wahhâb al-Turayrî.
The prize bond is also called a premium bond in some countries.
A bond is a loan. When a person purchases a prize bond, he is loaning money to the government. According to the conditions of the loan, the person loaning the money can receive his money back upon demand.
In return for the loan, the borrower offers the lender a chance to receive much more than his initial loaned sum back.
This contract is a contract of interest with uncertainty added to it as well. Effectively, what the issuers of the bond are doing is collecting the interest together from a large number of smaller loans and paying it all out to the winner of the draw instead of paying each lender his share of the interest.
Therefore, the prize money constitutes unlawful interest earnings. So one should not purchase prize bonds rest Allah knows best.
Ramsha Amir.
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