What is the ruling on young people gathering around computer games, which include both beneficial and harmful elements, and music plays during the games? What is the ruling on this practice?
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The questioner : Peace be upon you, and Allah's mercy and blessings.
The Shaykh : And upon you be peace, and Allah's mercy and blessings.
The questioner : We are a group of young people, as Allah wills, who came to visit you for the sake of Allah from Riyadh.
The Shaykh : May Allah keep you alive.
The questioner : We ask Allah to accept from us and from you.
The Shaykh : Amen.
The questioner : During our actual visits in Riyadh, we find some young people gathered around certain games. These games involve devices, such as the computer, which is called a computer. This computer contains some information that is beneficial to them, and some of it is just games. We find them sitting on these things during our visits. I do not know, but during the games, some music appears from time to time. They were inquiring about this matter, so we do not know what the answer is?
The Shaykh : As for if this computer is beneficial, that is good, and this may perhaps be among the things that should be suggested to those in the rest areas that the brother Sulayman asked about first.
And as for the thing that is not beneficial, it is idle talk, and it is counted against a person from his lifespan. And as for what is forbidden, one must refrain from it. So if this music comes, the volume must be lowered so that it is not heard. Yes, and I think the person recording is indicating, saying, "Hurry up."
And all praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may Allah send prayers and blessings upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions. May Allah make me and you among those who benefit from knowledge and act upon it, for He is capable of all things.
The Shaykh : And upon you be peace, and Allah's mercy and blessings.
The questioner : We are a group of young people, as Allah wills, who came to visit you for the sake of Allah from Riyadh.
The Shaykh : May Allah keep you alive.
The questioner : We ask Allah to accept from us and from you.
The Shaykh : Amen.
The questioner : During our actual visits in Riyadh, we find some young people gathered around certain games. These games involve devices, such as the computer, which is called a computer. This computer contains some information that is beneficial to them, and some of it is just games. We find them sitting on these things during our visits. I do not know, but during the games, some music appears from time to time. They were inquiring about this matter, so we do not know what the answer is?
The Shaykh : As for if this computer is beneficial, that is good, and this may perhaps be among the things that should be suggested to those in the rest areas that the brother Sulayman asked about first.
And as for the thing that is not beneficial, it is idle talk, and it is counted against a person from his lifespan. And as for what is forbidden, one must refrain from it. So if this music comes, the volume must be lowered so that it is not heard. Yes, and I think the person recording is indicating, saying, "Hurry up."
And all praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may Allah send prayers and blessings upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions. May Allah make me and you among those who benefit from knowledge and act upon it, for He is capable of all things.