I am sending you the fatwa which a Daarul Ifta issued on sport.

Answer

The fatwa states: "For any sport to be permissible, the following are the conditions:

* The objective must be physical

exercise, not mere lahw-la'b

(play/amusement).

* It should not be made an objective

(on which to focus attention). * The sport should per se be permissible.

* It should not lead to any neglect

of Shar'i obligations nor create

obliviousness.

* The satr should not be exposed. In the light of these conditions, extract the ruling for playing football." The fatwa asks you to formulate your own 'fatwa' on the basis of the five conditions mentioned above. This is the ridiculous kind of 'fatwa' which the Daarul Iftas nowadays issue. They lack insight, foresight, hindsight, and are unable to understand the fitnah of baatil. In the sport of our times none of the abovementioned conditions is observed. Furthermore, much more evil accompanies kuffaar sport than what the Darul Ifta knows or understands. In short, there is no validity for this extremely defective and misleading statement made by the Daarul Ifta. We lack the time, otherwise a detailed rebuttal of the nonsensical statement can easily be issued. You are a student searching for the truth. If you reflect a bit, and view present-day kuffaar sport and the attitude of Muslims, and the activities surrounding these kuffaar sport, and the haraam practices associated with it, we are sure you could also write a

rebuttal of the ghutha which the Daarul Ifta has written.

The very first error in the statement is that the objective must not be lahw-la'b. Sport in fact – sport per se is lahw-la'b, and Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said that "Every sport of the Mu'min is baatil" mutlaqan. The conditions which appear in the statement are nonsensical. The hurmat of sport is not reliant on these conditions. Sport is per se haraam. The other issues which are inextricably interwoven with sport, especially kuffaar sport, only serve to aggravate the prohibition.