The ruling on naming the match referee in the stadiums as "the judge"
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The questioner:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. In this time, the name "referee" has become famous in the stadiums, the one who judges between the two teams, and he is called the international referee or the local referee. Is this something that is prohibited?
The Shaykh:
What is wrong with his ruling? Is it playing? Did he defeat some, or did he exercise control? This, this is playing. Yes.
The questioner:
I say, Honorable Shaykh, I have chosen.
The Shaykh:
A judge to settle the dispute between people: send a judge from among them and a judge from among them to settle the dispute and make peace between people. As for the one in the stadiums, he is not a peacemaker and he is not a judge; this is a player. They call him a player or the head of the players.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. In this time, the name "referee" has become famous in the stadiums, the one who judges between the two teams, and he is called the international referee or the local referee. Is this something that is prohibited?
The Shaykh:
What is wrong with his ruling? Is it playing? Did he defeat some, or did he exercise control? This, this is playing. Yes.
The questioner:
I say, Honorable Shaykh, I have chosen.
The Shaykh:
A judge to settle the dispute between people: send a judge from among them and a judge from among them to settle the dispute and make peace between people. As for the one in the stadiums, he is not a peacemaker and he is not a judge; this is a player. They call him a player or the head of the players.
Source
شرح قرة عيون الموحدين [48] — alfawzan.live (1:04:17)
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