A fatwa on football?
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Whoever says “foul,” “penalty”, “corner,” “goal”, “out” and others, should be punished and ejected from the game. Do not call “foul” and stop the game if someone falls, instead, it should be adjudicated according to Sharia rulings concerning broken bones and injuries. Do not play with 11 people. Add to this number or decrease it. Play in your regular clothes or your pyjamas or something like that, but not coloured shorts and numbered T-shirts. Do not play in two halves. Rather, play in one half or three halves in order to completely differentiate yourselves. Do not add extra time or penalties. Instead leave the field, because winning with extra time and penalty kicks is the pinnacle of imitating heretics and international rules. Young crowds should not gather to watch when you play because if you are there for the sake of sports and strengthening your bodies as you claimed, why would people watch you? You should spit in the face of whoever puts the ball between the posts or uprights and then runs in order to get his friends to follow him and hug him like players in America or France do. You should use two posts instead of three pieces of wood or steel that you erect in order to put the ball between them, meaning that you should remove the crossbar. Do not do what is called “substitution,” that is, taking the place of someone who has fallen, because this is a practice of the heretics.
This is the most ridiculous thing I ever heard. I can’t believe such a thing can be called, but by an insane man. It’s so ridiculous, not even a 6 years old boy can believe it.
[Guardian]: The legal opinions proclaimed by Islamic scholars, known as fatwas, have proliferated in the Muslim world since the 1980s. The growth in fatwas - some of them contradictory - has led to debate over who can legitimately issue them. As part of a government drive to eliminate frivolous fatwas, the Saudi newspaper Al Watan recently published one such edict setting out new rules for football. We publish an edited translation here.
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4 Comments on “A fatwa on football?”
More nonsense religious rulings from nonsense “religious leaders.”
I agree with Abu Sinan. To think that there exist people who fabricate impossibilities and attach them to religion is just tragic.
The 6 year old boys may be clever enough to believe it but as you may have noticed when I blogged this on Oct. 18, Saudi religious took it seriously indeed. As did some young men whose life perhaps would have taken a better turn without it. The Egyptian scholars defended the football game, of course! http://missmabrouk.blogspot.com/2005/10/soccer-fatwa.html