Topic: Images, Google, Youtube, showing about gambling in Saudi Arabia. - page 2. (Read 621 times)

In the middle east where casinos are legal gambling accounts for about 80 percent of all sports revenue. There is also a culture of legal and illegal horse racing in iraq and the united arab emirates gambling and casinos, even online gambling, are legal in the UAE but gambling is done and when caught it is published in the media. But in early april this year a picture and video of saudi arabia went viral on facebook and other social media. Saudi Arabia is a muslim state and gambling is illegal in the muslim religion therefore there is a system of severe punishment for violating the law.

Possibly, but I think the existence of illegal gambling continues partly because the Saudi Arabia government is not so strict about it, especially if those gambling activities do not involve locals or Muslims. But if the Saudi government is really serious in cracking down on these illegal gambling activities, I don't think this will continue. We all know how strict the country is in terms of penalizing law breakers. If I am a gambler and I am in Saudi and the country is strictly implementing anti-gambling measures,  I would rather abide by it. I wouldn't want to get jailed and get whipped daily for it.

They don’t allow gambling in the natural sense of it in Saudi Arabia, people have to use VPN and can, thus, only engage in online gambling. Still, it’s prohibited.

However, from what I know, there are halal versions of gambling, that allow people to gamble, but, at the same time, don’t break the Sharia. The solution is simple - play games with no money involved.

Here, this article explains a lot. And mind the date, it’s 2018! Maybe since then, Saudi Arabia has warmed up to gambling even more.

wait, I just explained according to the article I read and there I didn't think the incident was a gamble and in the previous thread I also said that the snippet of the image that became the YouTube advertising channel can be manipulated. I don't understand why you say I assume it's gambling?
I have said in the previous thread that it is a baloot game or some kind of card trick that is played in Arab countries in 2018 I say this because I have read the existing articles but because the source articles I read are articles from my own country with my country's language so I didn't include it

I don't know much about the site. I just searched about muslims gambling on google and that was of one of the sites in evidence also displaying the images posted by OP. I thought interesting because it was a self-claimed muslim site sharing their view on that specific situation. Anyway, the information in the article about the prominent Imam in the images are true and he has a background of liberal statements considering his religion standards.

You can create a website from anywhere in the world and can hitlre people to cash like arab and take images loke they are gambling and can make money from such traffic into their site, everything showing on the Google is not 100% accurate because it just bring the results for your search and they are not taking any responsibility for the accuracy.

AFIAK, gambling is completely prohibited in all the Islamic countries for the muslims but they let the other religious people to decide their choices.

In my opinion, whether a gambling is illegal or not is relative. Not only gambling, even eating, drinking, living extravagantly or anything that is too excessive can be considered haram (wrong). Simply put, anything that is done in excess can lead to haram. Although it is not in the scriptural records though, because it is based on the customs of a society.

Returning to gambling which is currently the most massive and rapidly growing thing in various countries shows that there is a greater sense of desire to achieve something by risking.

Since the days of ignorance, Arabs have known gambling and it has even become a habit of Arabs before Islam came. What are they betting on? one of them is the camel, betting on 1 camel by guessing the number or speed of running (if it is now like a horse race) if the guess is correct, then those who bet 1 camel can get 2 to 5 or even more.

That is the basis that disrupts the haram law. then what is illegal? Broadly speaking, haram is doing something that is prohibited by religion (all religions have a prohibition) and then getting a threat.

For those who have religious beliefs, ideally just obey, but again, humans are still humans. It is not only in Arabia that dominates Islam and prohibits gambling, even all countries of any religion have something in common regarding gambling.

it's a simple concept that I think goes back to gamblers, can they stop gambling, or stick to the rules? example "even though we have bad personalities, but still if the religion is misused, it will definitely be defended". Likewise, those of us who still can't stop gambling, it doesn't mean we no longer hold on to the beliefs we hold, but our needs, hobbies and other things that encourage us to do it all.

We are all equal in this regard.

Yes, that is because people attempt gambling to make money and know that gambling is prohibited in their country. They risk their money and even their life because if they get caught by the police, they will get punishment for some time. Even if that is Arabs, we can not blame them as gambling is their choice and they know about the consequences of playing gambling in their country.

Living conditions often encourage people to look for shortcuts in making money. One of them is gambling, even though it is clearly prohibited in religious and state regulations, nothing can stop someone who has made up his mind who is confused about making money. During the pandemic, it became more and more rampant and the users of online gambling site sites increased.
Should it be prohibited in a country, the government should pay more attention to people like that, create jobs, ease the conditions for accepting workers and much more.
If it gets more complicated then don't blame those who gamble, because they no longer have a way to make extra money.

Not all Arabs follow Islam, Arabic does not mean Islam, many of them gamble in secret. Even though they live in a predominantly Muslim area, and apply Islamic rules, that doesn't mean they can't gamble. We just don't know. why do i talk like that? because my mother used to work there and witnessed the identical Arabs wearing their traditional clothes gambling. So we cannot generalize this unilaterally when applying Islamic rules. Because of course Islam forbids gambling.

Gambling is illegal in most Islam countries yet we can't deny the fact that people will always find ways to do gambling. Even in the most strict areas where gambling is prohibited, we all know that underground gambling is still happening. However, we still aren't sure if the players on the photos are really Arabs since not all we see on the internet is true.

There are more possibilities for these to be hoax. Even we cannot underestimate the credibility of all google services but google searches are just based on key word search. If you put some photoshopped images with the caption of "if Arabs go to casino and play gambling then it will look like this", then google will show those same image for all those who search with key words: Arabs+gambling.

At the same time, we need to wait for the people who frequents to big hotels and other similar resorts to confirm the actual status of gambling in all restricted countries because human's basic nature is always trying to breach both governments' and religions' law for curiosity reasons.

Probably there is a condition to consider before allowing gambling, there are other people in the Muslim faith that gambles in different country so I think there must be some kind of loophole that they are being allowed to gamble but generally I do believe that gambling isn't allowed in the Qur'an.

i check the first link bu i have to ask google again if gambling is allowed in that country or not and results show that it is strictly prohibited but under it it says its allowed but it does not involved real money so maybe that is what you say in google images and in youtube although in the image they are using chips but that can only be a replica  to imitate  or to experience a real gambling  .

I think so too, the thing about gambling in Saudi Arabia is quite strange to me, I just wanted to make this topic and ask a question, I know that in this forum there are Arab communities and local Arab forums, but i didn't find a satisfactory answer it's just weird to me, is this real or edited.

I think in this situation the Arab community knows more about the real thing, but I can't find the original source of how real casinos in Arabia are, real or hoax.

I understand Islam strictly prohibits gambling, especially in Arabia, let alone gambling, even women are not allowed to drive, although now it is allowed, new Arab law.
So with this news, I was thinking, is it possible that a new law has been implemented, casino gambling has been allowed there, quietly.

I think that is because some people want to have fun like what they see on the internet or other media, so they make a secret place to gamble or use unused homes to gather all of those people to play gambling.
Usually, that is what they did with the other people who want to gamble.
In other countries where gambling is prohibited, people will have that secret place to gamble, which is hard to find.
So even that is in Saudi Arabia, that will not stop people from gambling.

I am quite surprised that even in a country so strict against gambling that it still exists. Perhaps gambling could be interpreted as second nature to man.

Saudi Arabia is the capital country for Muslims and as such it gives so much value to the rules of the Quran and what is haram is to be avoided at all costs, otherwise you will suffer the punishment for its commission. And yet it seems to me that these pictures are real. Perhaps as swogerino mentioned the country doesn't mind this if the ones involved are foreigners.

Are they able to gamble while outside their country?
I'm not sure if I have seen an Arab man playing in a casino wearing their traditional dress but there are some people that looked like an Arab playing in casino.
But how do they able to go to a casino and play if they have not learned to gamble in their country - They must have been playing casino games probably in their backyard.

How about playing the game without betting money, is it allowed?

  

Islam religion is against gambling. Saudi Arabia is one of the country that strictly follows the laws mentioned in Quran. So, there is no chance of such thing to happen in Saudi Arabia. This seems to be a manipulated image. Arabs are found around the globe enjoying luxury with the money out of oil. Maybe these are some of those Arabs enjoying out of the country.

Even in Islam religion people are there who gamble and do things that are against Quran, but Saudi Arabia government never allows it within the country.

Images are easy to manipulate and change the viewers' perspective and reasoning. But with validation and a clear explanation of what's clearly happening, the context will be delivered and explained properly what was happening. At first look, we may really see that it's about gambling but until we don't have the valid reasoning for that image then don't assume that it is. We all know that country prohibits it and so we know that they're following laws not only with their country but also with their religion.