The Ruling on Naming the Ruling of the Playgrounds as a Ruling
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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 their ruling? What is in it? Playing? This is joking with them, this is play, yes.
The questioner:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.
The Shaykh:
A judge who settles disputes between people,[An-Nisa 4:35] who settles disputes to reconcile between people, as for the one in the playgrounds, this is not one who reconciles nor is he a judge, this is the chief of the chiefs or the head of the heads.
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 their ruling? What is in it? Playing? This is joking with them, this is play, yes.
The questioner:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.
The Shaykh:
A judge who settles disputes between people,
send an arbitrator from his people and an arbitrator from her people
فَابْعَثُوا حَكَمًا مِّنْ أَهْلِهِ وَحَكَمًا مِّنْ أَهْلِهَا
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شرح قرة عيون الموحدين في تحقيق دعوة الأنبياء والمرسلين، باب احترام أسماء الله تعالى وتغيير الاسم لأجل ذلك، وباب من هزل بشيء فيه ذكر الله أو القرآن أو الرسول - صلى الله عليه وسلم - فهو كافر — islamhouse.com (59:38)
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