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Fatwa ID: 78367
Title: the ruling conserning a combat game
Category: Varieties
Scholar: Shaykh Waleed Basyouni PhD
Date: 03/27/2009

Question
You can answer in arabic Thank you for your time. I you dont find my question clear tell me . There is a combat video game .Everything in the game is in 3D and the graphisms are very realistic.There is blood in the game and you must shoot with guns and help your little group of soldiers that assists you.It is a fiction story game and it didn't happen for real. It is a game were you play as a soldier of the US Marine and the british SAS. Your enemies in the stories are a leader of the Russian Ultranationalist party and the arab commander of the revolutionary forces in the Middle East who is an ally of the leader of the Russian Ultranationalist party The Middle East revolution commander killed the president of his country because he thinks he has relations with the West(USAand Europe). In a great part of the game you must shoot and kill Arabs who have arab-style hoods that covers almost all their faces and arab police and military and Russians. And in a part of the game, you play as an American or british soldier during an American military invasion of the Middle East to stop the arab revolutionary. You can have a look on the game : It seems that the following video happens in Mecca or somewhere around In the following video you are in the eyes of the president of the president of the arab country before he is killed by the arab revolutionner commander. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7asRkM9YaQ Here’s where you kill the arab commander of the middle east revolution http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvG3pXe-t30 here is also a picture where you fight in the arab country http://cdn1.gamepro.com/article_img/gamepro/134168-1-1.jpg here's a video of the gameplay make sure you watch it for at least 1 minute . http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-7928968040146618714&ei=wxXASdueG6GG_AH-7u3JAQ&q=call+of+duty+4&hl=en So ,according to my description of the game, do you think it is halal to play on it? If I kill someone in the game do I commit a sin by doing so Thank you for your time

Answer
The Muslim should not waste his/her time in playing games in general and if these games contain improper meaning or images, it will not be proper for a Muslim to play such games. As for playing games where you shoot and kill others (Muslims or non-Muslims) it is a fiction game and the rules of reality does not apply to it, thus it will not be considered a sin.