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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Is it true that some games open the mind and teach intelligence?

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Question : May Allah reward you. They say that Satan opens the mind and teaches intelligence, and so on.

Answer : We say: We refer this question to our brother Ahmad, the supervisor, because he informed us of this long ago with a report that invalidates their claim. Yes, he told me and I forgot. He said to us once that it is the opposite, because the mind acquires this type of intelligence. So this person, when addressed with other matters that require intelligence, is unable to cope. He said that the same applies to knowledge. That is, in the current religious sciences, if a person confines himself to one science, he does not know the other. And this is true. So it opens the mind for this particular game, but in other matters you find him to be like a hen; he knows nothing.
Source قناة «فضيلة الشيخ محمد بن صالح العثيمين»، 2890 - 4600 هل صحيح أن بعض الألعاب تفتح الذهن وتعلم الذكاء؟ ابن عثيمين — youtube.com

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