Is the money earned by snooker tables and machine games where people pay to play, halaal?

Answer

This 'mufti' is lamentably stupid to say the least. These games of gambling and lahw-la'b are shaitaani devices. They open the avenue for immorality besides gambling. How can a mufti blunder into selfdeception to the degree of failing to understand an issue which is clearer than daylight?

Snooker and similar other games of shaitaan are played in extremely unsavoury places where unsavoury characters kuffaar, fussaaq and fujjaar - always congregate and engage in lewdness and plain shaitaaniyat. Casinos, cafes and similar haunts of the devil are the primary venues for these evil games. But this miscreant mufti says that it is permissible.

It is most unintelligent to labour in nafsaani self -deception by negating music and pictures from this Satanist game. These evils are integral constituents of these games in the haunts where the machines are housed and played.

Paying money for indulgence in futility, and

GAMES OF SHAITAAN

worse, for haraam futility, is haraam. There is absolutely no scope for permissibility of snooker or any of the other types of shaitaani games.

Rasulullah (Sallallahu alayhi wasallam) condemned even chess and such games, saying that playing with these artefacts of the devil is "like dipping the hand in the blood of a swine".

So, how can a mufti ever conduct himself so ignorantly as to issue a fatwa of permissibility for filth and obscenity such as snooker games?

The money earned from snooker tables and such games of gambling and immorality is haraam even if the machines are not used for actual gambling.

The fatwa is absolutely corrupt and baatil.

The mufti does not know whether he is coming or going, unable to distinguish between Haqq and baatil.

Sayyid Abdul Qaadir Jilaani (Rahmatullah alayh) said: "Of the lusts of the world is to seek knowledge (of the Deen) without the intention of making amal (i.e. practically implementing the Knowledge in one's daily life.)"

This is the objective of knowledge to most of those who are pursuing higher Deeni studies in this era. That is the reason for all the corruption and fitnah in the ranks of the so-called 'ulama' of today. The mercenary attitudes of the molvis and sheikhs are the effects of their corrupt motives for pursuing the Knowledge of the Deen.

The objectives of Deeni Knowledge and secular knowledge are vastly different and even mutually repellent. The secular and nafsaani objectives which the molvis and sheikhs of today are pursuing have extinguished the Rooh- the spirit and soul- of the Knowledge which developed from Wahi (Divine Revelation in the form of the Qur'aan). Thus, the ulama who are supposed to be Beacons of Light and Guidance, have become mudhilleen who deviate Muslims from Siraatul Mustaqeem. Expressing profound fear for t h e m u d h i l l e e n , Rasulullah (Sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said:

"Verily, I fear for my Ummah the aimmah mudhilleen."

The mudhilleen are the ilk of the molvis and sheiks of the NNB jamiat of Fordsburg, the MJC of Cape Town, Darush Shaitan of Durban, Menk, Sulaiman Moolla and all facebook moron molvis and sheikhs.

(sheep / goat) is Waajib.