Re: Gambling Money is Dirty Money

Quote from: Darker45 on September 10, 2019, 09:06:16 AM

This to me is a traditional view which remains persistent until the very day.

My mother considered gambling as playing with money. She sternly reminded us not to gamble. When I was in college, there was a hot debate within the church whether or not to accept donations coming from dirty sources such as gambling. And in Islam, gambling (maysir) is haram (forbidden). ^[1]

I have a friend whose father would not serve the family food bought using gambling money.

And just a few years ago, our Education Secretary shunned billions of state-funds because they are coming from gambling. She didn't think it moral and proper to buy books and even build classrooms using the dirty gambling money. ^[2]

What are your thoughts on these? Do you agree with it, or you consider these as old-fashioned views?

Sources:
1. https://questionsonislam.com/question/what-gambling-what-view-islam-gambling
2. https://www.philstar.com/other-sections/education-and-home/2016/09/29/1628372/briones-shuns-gambling-money-education
3. https://www.manilatimes.net/2016/10/29/opinion/editorial/pragmatism-morality-classrooms-pagcor-money/293705/

I remember my dad when brought me to a Casino in Cebu and all the winnings that we have are all accounted and never mixed with the regular money that we have. We bought food, we use it pay the hotel bill, buy some local items to bring home, but never put it together with the money that never came from gambling example put is inside the same wallet, my dad says its bad luck, literally its like dirty money, he set it aside from the clean ones.