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A Litany of Reasons Why Games Aren?t Permissible Under Islam

By pete_gallagher

Blogger Ebrahim Saifuddin used his medium to pen an interesting look into why he believes videogames are haram (forbidden) for Muslims.

In his article, posted late last year, the author uses passages from the Qur'an to guide his opinion on whether specific game components are haram or halal (permitted). Ebrahim begins with music in videogames, citing four spots in the Qur'an as indicating that music is haram. Among the passages cited was the following (though it seems a bit wide ranging):

There is a man among the people who buys discourses of distracting amusements, so that he may mislead (people) from the Way of Allah, and make a mockery of it. For such people there is a disgraceful punishment. [31:06]

Next up, the depiction of animate objects in games, such as humans and animals, which includes the author's claim that, 'Many a times the female characters in video games are highly inappropriately dressed.' The author concludes: Read More

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on July 26, 2010 (boomark / email).