Source: USA Today
By Doug Stanglin, USATODAY
Top clerics in Saudi Arabia have issued a fatwa banning the playing of Pokemon Go as a form of gambling.
The decree was issued by General Secretariat of the Council of Senior Scholars on the website of the General Presidency for Scholarly Research and Ifta,Arab News reported Wednesday.
The edict actually updates an existing ban on the Pokemon card and video games before they morphed into the mobile phone virtual reality game that has swept the world.
The clerics issued the old fatwa, (No. 21,758), 16 years ago, declaring the original Japanese game a form of gambling, which is forbidden in Islam,
Sheikh Saleh Al-Fozan, a member of the Council of Senior Scholars, said the virtual reality version of the game is the same as the old one.
The game has not been officially released regionally, but is nonetheless popular in the Middle East among gamers who have downloaded the app, the Associated Press reports.
Although Pokemon Go does not involve the winning or losing of money, the fatwa notes that it nonetheless violates the gambling ban.
The fatwa. for example, points out that it involves “gambling practices,” such as two players, in the original Pokemon, competing for cards of different prices, with the stronger side winning the card. If the other player does not want to lose the card, he or she must pay its price.
In Cairo, Al Azhar, Egypt’s top Islamic institution, last week described the Pokemon Go craze as “harmful mania,” Gulf News reports.
“This game makes people look like drunkards in the streets and on the roads while their eyes are glued to the mobile screens,” said Abbas Shuman, deputy head of Al Azhar.
Categories: Islam, Saudi Arabia, The Muslim Times
Guys who of you play Pokemon GO? Incredible game, yesterday i caught rare
pokemon Snorlax using pokebusterbot ! No ban so far, still using it.
You should too.
++The clerics issued the old fatwa, (No. 21,758), 16 years ago, declaring the original Japanese game a form of gambling, which is forbidden in Islam,++
How dangerous/ bad if a clerics issue a advise or fatwa in the name of Islam…
Prophet Muhammad (saw) has said in Al Quran; do not believe in a cleric / man / imam etc because he can deceive you and bring on you disaster. Quran 9;31 Quran 7:3-5
DEFINITION “HARAM” OR “UNLAWFUL” IN ISLAM.
Allah and Prophet Muhammad (saw) said; allows them as lawful what is good and prohibits them from what is bad QS 7;157. It is very logical.
Islam will forbid something that can harm, hurt himself or other people. But if there is nothing can harm, hurt himself or others is lawful, acceptable, allowable, eatable . It is logical and scientific.
In modern time, scientist or Government is eligible to decide the good foods and harm foods. Islamic Clerics are not eligible to decide it.
The ancient Clerics had less knowledge to interpret Allah’s laws, and then mislead people to the wrong direction. It is logical, and it is understandable well
MY ADVICE TO YOUNG MEN AND GIRLS
Do not place your trust in a idol, place your trust in Allah alone. Quran 3;159.
READ MORE; ISLAM IS RELIGION OF LOGICAL
http://ilovemodrenislam.blogspot.com/p/islam-is-religion-of-logic.html