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**Toossehew** · 07-17-2012, 12:30 AM

Don't many sports have some type of physical harm or injurious events that may happen to the person?

Or is the fatwa such that it should be a serious physical harm?

For example, even in Hockey or Cricket, you can get physical harm as well.

The fatwa is based mainly on the prohibition of hitting someone on the face due to the harm it can cause someone and also because the face is one of the most precious parts of the body. There are many reasons why hitting the face is haraam, injury, humiliation, degradation etc etc.

If you're boxing or in a mixed martial arts competition where hitting on the face is allowed, then it is haraam because hitting the face is haraam unless in self defence. With regards to something like hockey, it is not prohibited because the aim of the game isn't to hit someone in the face, in fact the rules are made to prevent such an event from happening, for example, in hockey it is a foul to raise the hockey stick above a certain height to ensure someone is not hit on the head. So you can't say hockey or another sport is haraam as it does not involve hitting someone on the head.

The risk is there of course in which case you need to ascertain whether the risk is great enough to say this is haraam. For example, I forget what the 'sport' is called, but there is a sport where you stand on a cliff and time when the tide will be in and jump off. If you miscalculate, and the tide goes out, you hit the ground which in many cases results in severe bodily harm and in many cases death, if you time it right you hit the water and you're good.

The chances of severely harming yourself here is very high, and it's a very worthless endeavour and given it's silly nature and risks I could easily understand if this sport was said to be haraam. But if the risks are small and there is benefit in it then normal sports should be fine. At the end of the day there is risk in everything, even crossing the road.

07-17-2012, 12:30 AM	#22
Toossehew Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 365 Senior Member	Don't many sports have some type of physical harm or injurious events that may happen to the person? Or is the fatwa such that it should be a serious physical harm? For example, even in Hockey or Cricket, you can get physical harm as well. The fatwa is based mainly on the prohibition of hitting someone on the face due to the harm it can cause someone and also because the face is one of the most precious parts of the body. There are many reasons why hitting the face is haraam, injury, humiliation, degradation etc etc. If you're boxing or in a mixed martial arts competition where hitting on the face is allowed, then it is haraam because hitting the face is haraam unless in self defence. With regards to something like hockey, it is not prohibited because the aim of the game isn't to hit someone in the face, in fact the rules are made to prevent such an event from happening, for example, in hockey it is a foul to raise the hockey stick above a certain height to ensure someone is not hit on the head. So you can't say hockey or another sport is haraam as it does not involve hitting someone on the head. The risk is there of course in which case you need to ascertain whether the risk is great enough to say this is haraam. For example, I forget what the 'sport' is called, but there is a sport where you stand on a cliff and time when the tide will be in and jump off. If you miscalculate, and the tide goes out, you hit the ground which in many cases results in severe bodily harm and in many cases death, if you time it right you hit the water and you're good. The chances of severely harming yourself here is very high, and it's a very worthless endeavour and given it's silly nature and risks I could easily understand if this sport was said to be haraam. But if the risks are small and there is benefit in it then normal sports should be fine. At the end of the day there is risk in everything, even crossing the road.
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