In this verse four things are categorically prohibited: As for games of chance, this expression is applied to those games and acts in which accidental factors are considered the criteria for acquisition, fortune-making and the division of goods and property. While divination by arrow-shooting essentially constitutes a game of chance there is nevertheless a certain difference between the two, since divination by arrow-shooting, in addition to being a game of chance, is also tainted with polytheistic beliefs and superstitions. *108).For 'altars' and divination by arrows see nn. *109 O you who have believed, indeed, intoxicants, gambling, stone alters meaning So turn wholly away from it that you may attain to true success. (5:90) Believers! Intoxicants, games of chance, idolatrous sacrifices at altars, and divining arrows *108 are all abominations, the handiwork of Satan. Tafseer Tafheem-ul-Quran by Syed Abu-al-A'la Maududi O you who have conformed to Islam You had better realize in fact, that
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