Partnership: Determining Ownership by Drawing Lots in Joint Purchases
Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei
Partnership: Determining Ownership by Drawing Lots in Joint Purchases
English:
Question #1679:
A number of people bought an object collectively. They agreed between themselves to draw a lot to determine the owner. What is the ruling?
Answer #1679:
If the intention behind the draw is granting each individual’s share in the object to the person who wins it, there is no harm in it. Yet, if the intention is transferring the joint ownership to the person who wins the lottery per se or their intention is mainly wining and losing, it is not shar‘ī.
-Imam Khamenei, Practical Laws of Islam, Importance and Conditions of Partnership