Don’t play football with four lines
The fatwa forbidding football - except when played as training for Jihad - issued by Sheikh Abdallah Al-Najdi in 2003 lists fifteen prohibitions, including:
Don’t play football with four lines (surrounding the field), since this is the way of the non-believers.
One should not use the terminology established by the non-believers and the polytheists, like: ‘foul’, ‘penalty kick’, ‘corner kick’, ‘goal’ and ‘out of bounds’. Whoever pronounces these terms should be punished, reprimanded, kicked out of the game, and should even be told in public: ‘You have come to resemble the non-believers and the polytheists, and this has been forbidden’.
Do not set the number (of players) according to the number of players used by the non-believers, the Jews, the Christians, and especially the vile America. In other words, eleven players shall not play together. Make it a larger or a smaller number.
Do not play in two parts (i.e. halves), but rather in one part or in three parts, so as to be different than the sinful and rebellious, the non-believers and the polytheists.
When you finish playing, be careful not to talk about the game, and not to say ‘we play better than the opponent’, or ’so-and-so is a good player’. Moreover, you should about your body, its strength and its muscles, and about the fact that you are playing as (a means of ) training to run, attack, and retreat in preparation for jihad for Allah’s sake.
If one of you inserts the ball between the posts and then starts to run so that his companions will run after him and hug him, like the players in America and France do, yo should spit in his face, punish him, and reprimand him, for what do joy, hugging, and kissing have to do with sports?
- Sukhdev Sandhu in Matt Weiland & Sean Wilsey’s The Thinking Fan’s Guide to the World Cup.
Tags: saudi arabia, sukhdev sandhu
June 6th, 2010 at 12:09 pm
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June 6th, 2010 at 3:55 pm
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