Lottery: Is Buying Lotto Tickets Permissible If Profits Partially Support Charity?

Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei

Lottery: Is Buying Lotto Tickets Permissible If Profits Partially Support Charity?

English:

Question #1234:

Is it permissible to buy lotto tickets, noting that the company running the enterprise are privately owned and only 20% of its profit goes to women’s charitable institutions?

Answer #1234:

Buying and selling them is, by obligatory caution, ḥarām and the money obtained by the winners does not belong to them.

-Imam Khamenei, Practical Laws of Islam, Importance and Conditions of Lottery