Lottery: What Is the Ruling on Buying Lottery Tickets and Accepting Prizes?

Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei

Lottery: What Is the Ruling on Buying Lottery Tickets and Accepting Prizes?

English:

Question #1230:

What is the ruling in the matter of selling and buying lottery tickets? And what is the view if any prize is won in the process?

Answer #1230:

Buying and selling lottery tickets are, by obligatory caution, ḥarām. It does not belong to the person winning the prize, nor is he allowed to receive it.

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