Ruling on Watching Sports Matches
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What is the ruling on watching sports matches?
Why do you watch sports matches? What is the benefit in them? All you gain from them is wasting time, spending money, ruining your eyes, loving those who do not deserve to be loved, and exalting those whom we have been commanded to be severe with. There are those who excel in this game who are rebellious disbelievers, and this leads to the hearts of the fans of this sport exalting and loving this man.
Therefore: My brother! Stay away from it, and hold yourself back from watching it. And what have sports brought to people? They have brought nothing but distraction, the wasting of many important matters, and turning children away from their fathers, even though their fathers may need them in trade, agriculture, travel, or the like.
And it was mentioned to me: These are among the plots of the Jews, which they call the "Protocols of Zion". Allah knows best whether they are from them or from others. The important thing is that they have brought no benefit to the human being; rather, they are more harmful.
Why do you watch sports matches? What is the benefit in them? All you gain from them is wasting time, spending money, ruining your eyes, loving those who do not deserve to be loved, and exalting those whom we have been commanded to be severe with. There are those who excel in this game who are rebellious disbelievers, and this leads to the hearts of the fans of this sport exalting and loving this man.
Therefore: My brother! Stay away from it, and hold yourself back from watching it. And what have sports brought to people? They have brought nothing but distraction, the wasting of many important matters, and turning children away from their fathers, even though their fathers may need them in trade, agriculture, travel, or the like.
And it was mentioned to me: These are among the plots of the Jews, which they call the "Protocols of Zion". Allah knows best whether they are from them or from others. The important thing is that they have brought no benefit to the human being; rather, they are more harmful.