{
 "id": "concept/maysar",
 "class": "concept",
 "slug": "maysar",
 "label": {
  "ar": "الميسر",
  "en": "Maysar (Gambling)"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "الميسر: القمار عند الجاهلية بضرب القداح على الجزور؛ أنكره القرآن مع الخمر: «قل فيهما إثم كبير».",
  "en": "Maysar: arrow-casting gambling on slaughtered camels — the Qurʾan condemned it with wine as a great sin."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [],
 "regions": [],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "tradition-versus-culture"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "social",
  "sources": [
   "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq",
   "source/sunan-abi-dawud"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin; al-Raheeq al-Makhtum pp. 35–47"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "نبذة",
     "markdown": "الميسر: قمار الجاهلية بضرب القداح على أنصبة الجزور المذبوح؛ حرّمه القرآن مع الخمر وعدّه إثماً كبيراً."
    },
    {
     "heading": "القصة",
     "markdown": "كان من ألعابهم القمار بالأزلام على الجزور في تقسيم أنصبتها؛ يضربون بالقداح فمن خرج له نصيب أخذ ومن لم يخرج له غرم ثمن الجزور {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "في القرآن",
     "markdown": "وسئل النبي عن الخمر والميسر فأنزل الله: «قُلْ فِيهِمَا إِثْمٌ كَبِيرٌ وَمَنَافِعُ لِلنَّاسِ وَإِثْمُهُمَا أَكْبَرُ مِن نَّفْعِهِمَا» ([[passage/quran-2-219|البقرة 219]])، ثم حرّمهما صراحة في سورة المائدة ضمن أعمال الشيطان {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "للزوار الصغار",
     "markdown": "الميسر لعبة قمار بالأسهم على لحم الجزير؛ حرّمه الله لأن فيه عداوة وخسارة للناس."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/maysar",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Maysar: the Jahiliyya's gambling by casting arrows over the shares of a slaughtered camel; the Qur'an forbade it with wine, counting it a great sin."
    },
    {
     "heading": "The story",
     "markdown": "Among their games was gambling with the azlam over the slaughtered camel in dividing its shares: they cast the arrows — whoever drew a share took it, and whoever drew none paid the camel's price {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "In the Qur'an",
     "markdown": "The Prophet was asked about wine and maysar, and God sent down: \"Say: in them is great sin and benefits for people; their sin is greater than their benefit\" ([[passage/quran-2-219|al-Baqara 219]]), then explicitly forbade them in Surat al-Ma'ida among Satan's works {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "For young visitors",
     "markdown": "Maysar is a game of gambling with arrows over a camel's meat; God forbade it because it brings enmity and loss to people."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/maysar",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 2,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "passage/quran-2-219",
   "type": "revealed_in",
   "inverse": true
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "concept/anwa",
  "concept/azlam",
  "concept/hama",
  "concept/hums",
  "concept/jahili-marriage-forms",
  "concept/kahana",
  "concept/nasi",
  "concept/sacred-livestock-jahiliyya"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}