QUESTION: Sheikh is it permissible to watch videos of reaction channels on YouTube? I.e, does it come under listening to backbiting? Usually they react to other YouTubers channels and praise them or make fun of them and insult them, depending on if they like them or not.

Backbiting, Sports, Entertainment and Music
02 Sep

ANSWER: This is listening to backbiting and not permissible.

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QUESTION: Is it permissable to play football?

Sports, Entertainment and Music
31 Aug

ANSWER: No problem as long as the awrah is concealed and it doesn’t lead to doing haram such as skipping prayers or fighting or using bad words etc. 

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QUESTION: As you know today most of youths are engaged in making any kind of content in YouTube and they after that are earning from it So is this income from YouTube is haraam or halaal

Jobs, Sports, Entertainment and Music
19 Aug

ANSWER: It’s haram due to haram ads with music, women etc. And if they make haram content, this adds to their sins.

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QUESTION: Is it ok to listen Urdu famous Qawali “Bhar do jholi Meri ya Muhammad” ?

Shirk and its different forms, Sports, Entertainment and Music
05 Aug

ANSWER: This is not permissible at all!

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QUESTION: Spin wheel where there you spin a wheel and where it stops you get that prize or money or thing & claw machine where you give money,then you use the claw to pick up the gift.If someone does this will his prayers be valid?

Halal/Haram Matters, Sports, Entertainment and Music
22 Jul

ANSWER: This is totally prohibited. 

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QUESTION: Sheikh, is it permissible to sell video games and action figures online?

Halal/Haram Matters, Sports, Entertainment and Music
19 Jul

ANSWER: It’s NOT permissible to sell or buy haram games or action figures.  Besides, selling games would most likely include a lot of haram elements such as music and excessive violence in addition to wasting people’s time and energy over such games. 

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QUESTION: Is it permissible to take pictures with actors/singers? What if they are of the same gender?

Halal/Haram Matters, Sports, Entertainment and Music
17 Jul

ANSWER: This is not permissible at all! Taking photos with them endorses their evil and vice. You will be resurrected with those whom you love and associate yourself with on the day of judgement.

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QUESTION: I have been collecting and selling sports cards, like hockey, basketball, and soccer stickers. I just now was looking through and noticed that these cards are just photos of players and are flat like a sticker, but in the photo some of the team logos on the players shirts are drawings of animals, some are not, and some of them have a crown as their logo

Sports, Entertainment and Music
09 Jul

ANSWER: It is not permissible to deal with such cards and sell them.

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QUESTION: Sheikh, I am from Pakistan and here we have a custom in marriages that on barat when groom Comes to sit with his wife, bride’s sisters blocks his way and demand for money and he sit after paying, is it permissible to do so?

Halal/Haram Matters, Sports, Entertainment and Music
25 Jun

ANSWER: Of course not! This is totally prohibited as it comes under free mixing. 

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QUESTION: You said selling on itch.io (previous question) was not permissible. What part of it makes it impermissible to use? The platform has no submission fee. The minimum amount for payout is because it is too expensive to process payments for small amounts of money. I want to make sure this is haram and not due to misunderstanding before I give up making video games for selling.

Halal/Haram Matters, Sports, Entertainment and Music
12 Jun

ANSWER: It is not permissible to pay such subscription that would allow you to sell things as you may not be able to sell anything and the money would go to waste.  Besides, selling games would most likely include a lot of haram elements such as music and excessive violence in addition to wasting people’s […]

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