A Facebook User has called out the Borno State Government to ban Football betting in the state. According to him, it is an abomination..
Here’s what he wrote below;
SAY NO TO “bet9ja”.
Where is the Borno State Government?
Where is the Borno State House of Assembly?
Where is our Attorney General?

Where is our Commissioner of Environment?
Where is our Commissioner of Information & Culture?
Where are our patriotic Borno State activists? Where are our Ulamas (Islamic Scholars)?

Where are those groups that call themselves Community/Society Development groups?

Where are the so called Movements for better Borno? Where are they? Where are they

Why is everybody silent knowing that our State is on the verge of falling into yet another danger?

Are you really interested in making Borno a better place or you are just making noise to attract people’s attention or gain a cheap popularity?

This State of ours has been suffering from “fitnah” (crises) for the past 7-8 years. And it’s unanimously agreed that the only way out of this “fitnah” is for all of us to repent to Allah and seek for His forgiveness as well as His spiritual intervention, only by doing so can we get out of the current disaster our people have been suffering from.

But unfortunately opposite is the case, as almost 70-80% of our youths have suddenly and messively resort to a newly emerged football gambling that is called “Naija Bet”, in which a person predict the results of the 5-6 football matches that are yet to be played by putting N100 or N200 and that if he/she guess the results correctly he/she would end up winning some certain amount of money.

And every critical thinker knows that such gambling encourages theft, burglary, enmity among youth, and it also discourages those involved from going to school. (subhanallah wal’iyazu billah).

Allah SWT has warned the Prophet saw against dangers involved in gambling in a number of occasions in the Glorious Qur’an. Allah SWT quoted to have said:
“They ask thee concerning wine and gambling. Say, ‘In them is GREAT SIN”

(Qur’aan 2:19). He (SWT) also warned the believers in yet another verse by saying: “O believers! Intoxicants and gambling, worshipping stones and divination by arrows are impure of shaytan’s handiwork: refrain from such abomination that ye may prosper.”
(Qur’aan 5:90).

Therefore, going by these afore mentioned Qur’anic verses, one can simply realize the simple fact that any society that are involved in such abominable activities are directly testing the patience of Allah SWT.

“Wallahi” if care is not taken, we are going to witness yet another disastrous anarchy, a situation where we will have thousands of our youths dropped out of schools and I think you are aware of the consequences.

May Allah SWT guide us to the right path.


http://www.torimill.com/2017/12/is-abomination-facebook-user-appeals-to.html

Lalasticlala Mynd44 Dominique

Gambling is not illegal but responsible men don't indulge in it. So, Bulama muhammad Bukar, your plea is nothing but bunkum.

Must Nigerians bring religion into everything? Look at this jobless guy typing with rubbish with vigour.

Northerns are very far from common sense

Chelsea don cut baba ticket wey he use him houserent take stake. I understand

To some extent, it's true. But it isn't illegal.

Is it your money?

It's all about time, said it that one day someone gonna complain, it's getting rampant now.

It Violates the Principle of Stewardship
The gambler wastes and squanders what he has. Most gamblers are losers. Stu Ungar was a three time world poker champion and world class gin-rummy player. In poker championships alone, Ungar won $2,081,478. He was second on the all-time money list. 18 He went from being broke to a millionaire (and broke again) at least four times.19 In the thirty years that he gambled he won and lost over ten million dollars. In one weekend Ungar managed to win a million dollars playing poker while at the same time losing nearly two million dollars on horse races. Stu Ungar died alone in a motel room at the age of 42, sick, addicted to cocaine and broke. Sadly, the example of Stu Ungar is not the exception; it is the rule.

Americans wager away over 50 billion dollars per year at the casinos and other gambling venues. Think of how much good could be done with that money! We must recognize that nothing we possess is truly ours; rather, it is a stewardship from God.

It is a n undeniable spiritual truth that God gives and empowers to obtain. The wise man, Solomon said, "Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor; this is the gift of God" (Ecclesiastes 5:19). That which we possess belongs to God; it is as David recognized, "The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them" (Psalm 89:11). This being true our relationship to the things we possess is that of stewards and not owners. As stewards we must be faithful in the use of the things committed to our trust. We do not have the right to squander our Master's goods either in wasteful consumption on ourselves (Luke 12:45) or through careless use (Luke 16:1) or idleness (Luke 19:20-23). The Lord expects us to be faithful stewards of the things with which we have been blessed. As Peter said, "As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever" (1 Peter 4:10-11). God expects those that have been blessed of Him to in turn be a blessing to others (Acts 20:35; 1 John 3:17). The rich are to be "rich in good works" (1 Timothy 6:17-19).

Think about it for a moment, say it were possible for you to give a neighbor a ten thousand dollars with the just this proviso: "Do good" (cf. Psalm 37:27). How would you feel if that neighbor took the money and headed straight for the casino or the lottery window? Imagine how God must feel when he sees those He has blessed in this wonderful nation of ours squandering their wealth in pursuit of covetousness.

For more, read;
http://www.bibletalk.net/articles/gamble.html

must we always bring religion into everything?

ALLAH-akbar