Lately I have been noticing a lot of scholars and people say that chess is halaal now.
I have produced a document in which I have narrated SaHeeH hadeeth that shows the prohibition of chess. There is more than just one reason for the prohibition of chess, it was not only prohibited because it was a "gambling" tool, as many scholars say.
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Wa 'Alaykum Assalaam
MashAllah brother, nice collection of hadeeth. Also, nice jumpshot.
ReplyDeleteThe article doesn't do what you claim. The narrations quoted simply reinforce the conclusion that the issue was its use as a tool for gambling.
ReplyDeleteIf you notice some of the hadeeth no only talk about it being a "gambling instrument", but there other hadeeth that say this was the games of the majoos (Zoroastrians) and we have a general hadeeth / principle not to imitate the kuffaar.
ReplyDeleteWho are you to forbidden what Allah allowed?
ReplyDeleteGo and ask Allah's forgiveness. and stop these bidaâs
Chess or any other game is Haram if it is played for "money"... otherwise, any game is allowed as long as it does not involve anything Haram.
ReplyDeleteScholars have no right to declare anything Haram without a genuine justification.
Chess, in particular, is a game that uses 'intelligence' only ! - Almost all other board games uses Dice and Luck, aren't these worse?
Extremists usually switch off their brains.
Damn... and I loved my chess.
ReplyDeleteAllaah knows you love chess, which makes your jihaad (struggle) even more. Allaah will reward you on how hard you fight your desires, inshaa'Allaah.
DeleteA good example of how someone who does not know the law - no doubt hasn't studied Usul in any deep, methodic fashion - pontificates on the law.
ReplyDeleteMr Nader: Those who say 'Chess is not Haram' do not reject the ahadith about 'chess'. They reject your assumption that the game being played today, called 'chess', is the same kind of game which was played then, also called 'chess'. Chess then was a species of a Haram genus, and the Chess of today is a species of no Haram class. Thus, those scholars see beyond the equivocation and apply their ruling on the underlying nature. I.e. If the nature of the subject changes, the ruling of the previous nature does not apply.
Think about it for a bit, and then return to your study, more respectful of scholars this time.
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ReplyDeleteWhat about those hadees which go a step ahead of playing chess? What explanation to the scholars who permit chess have for this?
Imam Ja'far as-Sadiq (Peace be upon him), is reported to have told Abu Basir: "It is Haraam to sell chess. It is Haraam to spend the income of this sale. To keep chess (board and pieces) in ones possession is tantamount to kufr (disbelief). To play chess is equal to ascribing partners to Allaah. It is a sin even to salute one who plays chess. One who touches it in order to play it, it is, as if he has contaminated his hands by touching pork."
10.) Imam Ja'far as-Sadiq (Peace be upon him) says: "The prayers of chess-players are not valid till they wash their hands after the game. And to watch a game of chess is like looking at the genitals of one‟s own mother.
If you had studied an ounce of the relevant usul with care, you would know that hukm is a function of mawdu`, not of lafz. Yes, the Imam applied a hukm to the mawdu` governed by the lafz 'chess' THEN, but it is a reasonable stance taken by some scholars that the lafz 'chess' today denotes a different mawdu`. Since the hukm was declared for the former mawdu`, it is no longer applicable for the latter.
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