Topic: Prayer and gambling. - page 4. (Read 3086 times)

I know many Muslims who pray before important work. Prayer, whether it is asking for something or praising God, is a kind of ritual to lift one's spirit, motivation, concentration and attention. If someone believes that prayer helps them, why not? Each of us has our own religious views and preferences.

Sounds sarcastic but true. No matter how and whom we pray to, if it isn't our luck to win in gambling, then we couldn't win it because if prayer is powerful even in gambling, then religious and prayerful gamblers should've been rich now. Gambling has nothing to do with our religious beliefs.

LOL it is funny that there are people in here who literally believe that prayer or believing in god or gods has anything to do with the outcome of anything period.  I am not saying there isn't a god out there somewhere, because I truly have no idea, but the absolute most likely truth when it comes to fate is that it's much more likely than not that none of the Gods we know are likely to be real.  Even if the gods we know are real, why the hell would they help you win money..because you prayed to them lol.  That is not how it works.  This is all pretty silly.

For a second there I thought this was a topic about putting bets on who's prayers will get answered XD I'd actually go for that. As for praying for results, I doub't God watches the third Iranian women's basketball division.

I think religion doesn't matter in gambling ,. When you pray before you play then the end of the game you will win then I think it is coincidence .because if it is not  then all gamblers are draw because they will pray before they play

There is a confusion here. The confusion of Grace and luck. Most religion don’t even condone gambling. They discredit gambling and think of it as the work of the Devil. Because if more than half the religions forbids a certain thing, I think there’s something wrong about that thing. Some people might pray to their god or anything that they worship before playing a bet. If the the outcome comes out positive, they think their god answered their prayer and they keep doing that. Personally, that’s LUCK. It just naturally happened. But some will think you’re graced to win a certain bet or something. Gambling is a game of luck. Because most religion Prohibit on gambling so I think it is not a good thing.

By the way, this applies not only to gambling (but of course it applies to them).  When a person prays about some event and it happens, he quickly forgets about his prayer and the help of the Almighty.  And he believes that it should be so.  And so on until the next event and turning to prayer, then again forgets.  And this sequence accompanies all conscious life.  
But, yes, praying for winning a gambling game is wrong.  
Because this is a prayer for self-interest and profits and is discouraged in most religions.

Yes, it is prohibited in most religions but we can not deny the fact that some gamblers always pray before they gamble because they hope, with pray, they can win some money. It is human nature to forget about what they did before after they got something and if they win in gambling games, they will consider to say that is my luck winning some money. But the truth is they pray before they play gambling and they do not admit it. Maybe they feel that if they admit it, some people or friends will say that praying for winning gambling is prohibited in their religions.

There is nothing wrong with praying to ask for ease and goodness for ourselves. The problem is that not all religions and beliefs allow gambling.
So when our religion forbids us to gamble and we keep praying it sounds really weird to me. Maybe your religion doesn't prohibit gambling,
so you are very comfortable doing that. For me praying for victory in gambling only makes the mind uneasy, so I never pray for victory in gambling.
I also play gambling for entertainment, so winning is only a bonus for me, not a priority.

Yep, that's actually won't change anything but only the result for those people that are believers with what religion they belong. It's just like that it's about the belief of the gambler and trying to increase the chances of winning. Some may say that it's effective to them because it happened once or twice but if we're going to correlate it with numbers, yes, that's the fact that it won't change the result and the odds as it's live there and won't be moved by any gambler. Somehow the prayers are all about the winning of the team or player they bet on specific sports.

Yes, I agree prayer is both meditative and positive it enhances your mind to think clearly and calmly because your mindset is that you are guided to win, you are positive to win the game and you accept whatever results in it will bring you good or bad, I don't see anything wrong in praying while gambling I have seen a lot of lottery bettors here in our place who ask for guidance from the Almighty for lucky numbers and besides we honoring the existence of God.

I think our are definitely right because anything tat works for you would be what you will always do to keep your mind on top. Although I don't know if there is any connection between gambling and prayers but I've also seen people praying when they have a tough time without winning, then praying would trigger there chances of winning the bet which I could assume that it could be luck. Sometimes when luck brings fortune, many will thinks tat it's prayer that was conducted before there attempt.

Funny in a manner that others find it because gambling is against majority of the religions that are existing.

This is way crazier than gambling.

I am happy you asked the question!

Long ago people were able to communicate without the telephone just through their mental connection, Yes these are considered supernatural powers now but it was quite common back then.
Spirituality in short means you have to master the 5 elements and be able to manipulate them, Your body is built up of 5 elements that are - Ether, Water, Fire, Earth, Air -

Now you would wonder how is it linked?
Then my answer is - Everything's energy and Vibrates at Atomic-level including your Body technically, Including Chakras and ancients knew this, ofc aliens or Gods that visited the earth gave them this knowledge. It is all about manipulating stuff at the atomic level or lower than that.
Our consciousness is not materialistic and somehow our consciousness is inside this body which has chakras (Energy fields) || Wherever the energy is more dominant, you perceive life according to that.

Now in physical everything happens on an energy level so if you Vibrate at a very high frequency then things will most likely go according to your way and that's the reason people use different mantras (They're pure vibrations that affect certain parts of the body and energy fields [Chakra])

So gods will not directly manipulate the market but your vibrations affects things even if you can't see them and everything in this world is connected.

This is a good point !
I automatically thought about Islam as the most known religion that prohibits all kinds of gambling. Except few islamic countries where some gambling activities are held by the government, in all the rest of the islamic (arabic in particular) countries gambling is forbidden by law. However, a large number of gamblers comes from those countries where people have to pray five times per day from sunrise pray until dinner pray; those people lives in an extreme schizophreny between the poursuit for luxury with gambling winnings and their spiritual beliefs which consist that God is responsible for all the good luck if you win but he also responsible for loss as a sort of penalisation (they can't ignore it). As religion interfers in people activities, gambling and Islam are two contradictory things in the head of every muslim gambler .
In my locval board (which is arabic), many users don't hesitate to swear by god or to use relegious expressions while they promote a gambling platform in their signatures .

but most of us unknowingly experience that delusion!!

Praying while gambling without realizing it is done by most people but when they win or lose they forget it! I never pray when gambling because I am well aware that it is an act that is prohibited by my religion "lol

Indeed, this is not in the right place to involve prayer just for betting while we think this is just for fun, so I think prayer should not be considered a joke just because of something that has not yet determined success, so gamblers will do things for their victory, even prayer for them can for success.
In terms of religion, this is prohibited, but I know that gambling is rational for many people, so I don't involve any prayer in gambling.

I do not think so, everything about bet should not involve prayer, people praying before betting are most likely to become addicts to gambling. Gambling should just be for the fun of it regardless of winning or losses, it shouldn't go to the extent of someone thinking it is a way of making money because that is the reason someone can be so emotional to pray about it.

Dreaming is not praying, though they can be connected but they are different, or the person prayed to his God to dream about the clubs to win? 

People could just be religious in anything they do and sometimes their beliefs might just work out for them. But prayers before placing a bet works out atimes. I know of a friend who claims most of the games he stakes he received the odds from dreams and shows proves of winning from those games. Maybe it could be a system that might work out for another considering that everyone has their own luck

We can say that is funny but that happens to many people out there because some people who commit a crime can also pray before they do that. They believe that praying to GOD can feel confident and play easily without thinking if their religion prohibits gambling. Besides that, it is just a personal matter that is not related to other gamblers and we can not blame them why they pray to GOD before they gamble.