Some brothers in the community are planning to arrange a fund raiser for the new local musalla. They are planning to sell tickets of about $100,000. In order to give an incentive to people to buy the tickets they are planning to give back about $20,000-$25,000 in the form of cash or an expensive item, like car, to one or two people in a drawing. Will such kind of activity be considered gambling? What about the people who will be buying the tickets without having any desire for the money back...
