Why Playing Minecraft Is Not Haram in Islam with Proof
C.J Ahmed-29.03.2023
Minecraft is an adventure game where the player can go on adventures by simply adding or placing blocks. There is nothing haram in playing games such as Minecraft. Minecraft is a game where you can make our own rule and play which is fun. The argument that minecraft is haram are extremely ludicrous and elementary. One such argument is the eating of pork in minecraft. First of all we should undertand that minecraft is nothing but a game and you are not eating real pork.
.Artificial pork is completely made of ingredients using various ingredients that mimic the same taste, smell and flavor of pork. This kind of artificial pork is not impure because they are all made up of clean halal ingredients. Some of the ingredients used for making artificial pork are as follows
Sodium hexametaphosphate,
Monosodium phosphate sodium polyacrylate,
vitamin E,
Salt,Sugar,
Spices,
Yeast powder, Hydrolyzed soybean protein,
Caramel color and in some instances also sauce made up of palm oil,garlic,chilli powder etc.
It is clear that all the ingredients to make artificial pork are halal and we must not go in to extremes in forbidding something which has not clearly been forbidden in the Quran or authentic hadiths. The Prophet (sal) said, “Verily Allah has obligated the obligations – so do not neglect them. And He has limited the limits – so do not transgress them. And His silence about things is from His mercy, not forgetfulness, so do not investigate them.” (Hasan Sahih-Ad-Darqutni No. 4/199 and Al-Baihaqi No. 10/122)
Allah(Swt) has only forbidden the eating of real pork and not artificial pork.The fact that eating artificial pork is halal is on Qiyas (Analogy) One argument is the argument of drinking non alcoholic bear. What makes the bear or wine or any other thing haram is that it contains alcohol which is intoxicating.
Narrated by Daylam al Himyari (Rali),
I asked the Prophet (Sal) and said: Messenger of Allah! we live in a cold land in which we do heavy work and we make a liquor from wheat to get strength from if for our work and to stand the cold of our country. He asked: Is it intoxicating? I replied: Yes. He said: You must avoid it. I said: The people will not abandon it. He said: If they do not abandon it, fight with them.
(Abu Dawud-Graded Sahih by Albani)
In this hadith we can clearly understand tat the prophet (Sal) asked whether the liquor made from wheat was intoxicating because intoxicants was what us haram and if the haram in it is absent then it becomes halal. Drinking ginger bear is halal because it is a non alcoholic beverage and the absence of alcohol makes it clearly halal. We have to stick to what is specifically haram in Islam and Islam clearly forbids specifically the real meat of pork and not artificial pork. The next argument put forward is based on a foolish notion that when you are eating artificial pork then you are actually relinquishing and thinking about it and hence haram. Thinking about anything haram in forbidden in Islam and you can fantasize about eating pork. The prophet (Sal) said,
"Allah has forgiven my Ummah for whatever crosses their mind so long as they do not speak of it or act upon it.”
(Bukhari and Muslim)
Ibn Abbas (Rali) narrated that the Prophet (Sal) said, relating from his Lord, may He be glorified and exalted: “Allah decreed good deeds and bad deeds, then He explained that. Whoever thinks of doing a good deed then does not do it, Allah will write it down as one complete good deed. If he thinks of doing a good deed and then does it, Allah (May He be glorified and exalted) will write it down between ten and seven hundred fold, or many more. If he thinks of doing a bad deed then he does not do it, Allah will write it down as one complete good deed, and if he thinks of it then does it, Allah will write it down as one bad deed.”
(Sahih Al Bukhari and Muslim)
There are also pork meat made from artificial or genetically modified meat and all of this is totally halal because none of these are made by mixing real pork.My question for those who argue that eating artificial pork is haram or Makruh is that what will you do with a plastic pig or a beef steak shaped in the form of a pig are you going to touch it or not? Eating artificial pork is like eating a pig shaped cake and it would be ludicrous to even argue that artificial pork is haram because it does not make any sense for forbidden.Ultra puritanism has crept the Muslim community because they have forgotten to stick to the Quran and the Sunnah as understood by the early generation of Muslims who were the Salafus Saliheen. As a result of various innovators who have started to spread Bidah,shirk and Kufr, the hapless youth have been brainwashed in to believing in rubbish that has no basis in Islam. One such nonsense is the wrong thinking that eating artificial pork is haram in Islam. Nowhere in the Quran or the authentic hadiths does it say that eating artificial pork is haram. Islam is a very easy religion and extremism has no place in Islam. The prophet (Sal) said,
“None makes the religion difficult except that it overcomes him. So, aim for what is right, stick to the moderate way"
(Bukhari)
Narrated by Ibn Masud (Rali),
The prophet (Sal) said,
"Beware! The extremists perished," saying it three times."
(Abu Dawud-Graded Sahih by Albani)
The other dumb argument presented by some Muslims to forbid Minecraft is that it promotes violence such as shooting, eating animals etc. First of all I would like to ask who gave them the authority to make something haram with out presenting any proofs? Even during the time of the prophet (sal) wars and battles did happen between the Muslims and Kafirs and if violence was prohibited, the prophet (sal) would have forbidden violence. Islam is not a pacifist religion unlike other religions but a pragmatic religion. Any of the activities that are done in Minecraft are hust games and not real.
Minecraft is an adventure game where the player can go on adventures by simply adding or placing blocks. There is nothing haram in playing games such as Minecraft. Minecraft is a game where you can make our own rule and play which is fun. The argument that minecraft is haram are extremely ludicrous and elementary. One such argument is the eating of pork in minecraft. First of all we should undertand that minecraft is nothing but a game and you are not eating real pork.
.Artificial pork is completely made of ingredients using various ingredients that mimic the same taste, smell and flavor of pork. This kind of artificial pork is not impure because they are all made up of clean halal ingredients. Some of the ingredients used for making artificial pork are as follows
Sodium hexametaphosphate,
Monosodium phosphate sodium polyacrylate,
vitamin E,
Salt,Sugar,
Spices,
Yeast powder, Hydrolyzed soybean protein,
Caramel color and in some instances also sauce made up of palm oil,garlic,chilli powder etc.
It is clear that all the ingredients to make artificial pork are halal and we must not go in to extremes in forbidding something which has not clearly been forbidden in the Quran or authentic hadiths. The Prophet (sal) said, “Verily Allah has obligated the obligations – so do not neglect them. And He has limited the limits – so do not transgress them. And His silence about things is from His mercy, not forgetfulness, so do not investigate them.” (Hasan Sahih-Ad-Darqutni No. 4/199 and Al-Baihaqi No. 10/122)
Allah(Swt) has only forbidden the eating of real pork and not artificial pork.The fact that eating artificial pork is halal is on Qiyas (Analogy) One argument is the argument of drinking non alcoholic bear. What makes the bear or wine or any other thing haram is that it contains alcohol which is intoxicating.
Narrated by Daylam al Himyari (Rali),
I asked the Prophet (Sal) and said: Messenger of Allah! we live in a cold land in which we do heavy work and we make a liquor from wheat to get strength from if for our work and to stand the cold of our country. He asked: Is it intoxicating? I replied: Yes. He said: You must avoid it. I said: The people will not abandon it. He said: If they do not abandon it, fight with them.
(Abu Dawud-Graded Sahih by Albani)
In this hadith we can clearly understand tat the prophet (Sal) asked whether the liquor made from wheat was intoxicating because intoxicants was what us haram and if the haram in it is absent then it becomes halal. Drinking ginger bear is halal because it is a non alcoholic beverage and the absence of alcohol makes it clearly halal. We have to stick to what is specifically haram in Islam and Islam clearly forbids specifically the real meat of pork and not artificial pork. The next argument put forward is based on a foolish notion that when you are eating artificial pork then you are actually relinquishing and thinking about it and hence haram. Thinking about anything haram in forbidden in Islam and you can fantasize about eating pork. The prophet (Sal) said,
"Allah has forgiven my Ummah for whatever crosses their mind so long as they do not speak of it or act upon it.”
(Bukhari and Muslim)
Ibn Abbas (Rali) narrated that the Prophet (Sal) said, relating from his Lord, may He be glorified and exalted: “Allah decreed good deeds and bad deeds, then He explained that. Whoever thinks of doing a good deed then does not do it, Allah will write it down as one complete good deed. If he thinks of doing a good deed and then does it, Allah (May He be glorified and exalted) will write it down between ten and seven hundred fold, or many more. If he thinks of doing a bad deed then he does not do it, Allah will write it down as one complete good deed, and if he thinks of it then does it, Allah will write it down as one bad deed.”
(Sahih Al Bukhari and Muslim)
There are also pork meat made from artificial or genetically modified meat and all of this is totally halal because none of these are made by mixing real pork.My question for those who argue that eating artificial pork is haram or Makruh is that what will you do with a plastic pig or a beef steak shaped in the form of a pig are you going to touch it or not? Eating artificial pork is like eating a pig shaped cake and it would be ludicrous to even argue that artificial pork is haram because it does not make any sense for forbidden.Ultra puritanism has crept the Muslim community because they have forgotten to stick to the Quran and the Sunnah as understood by the early generation of Muslims who were the Salafus Saliheen. As a result of various innovators who have started to spread Bidah,shirk and Kufr, the hapless youth have been brainwashed in to believing in rubbish that has no basis in Islam. One such nonsense is the wrong thinking that eating artificial pork is haram in Islam. Nowhere in the Quran or the authentic hadiths does it say that eating artificial pork is haram. Islam is a very easy religion and extremism has no place in Islam. The prophet (Sal) said,
“None makes the religion difficult except that it overcomes him. So, aim for what is right, stick to the moderate way"
(Bukhari)
Narrated by Ibn Masud (Rali),
The prophet (Sal) said,
"Beware! The extremists perished," saying it three times."
(Abu Dawud-Graded Sahih by Albani)
The other dumb argument presented by some Muslims to forbid Minecraft is that it promotes violence such as shooting, eating animals etc. First of all I would like to ask who gave them the authority to make something haram with out presenting any proofs? Even during the time of the prophet (sal) wars and battles did happen between the Muslims and Kafirs and if violence was prohibited, the prophet (sal) would have forbidden violence. Islam is not a pacifist religion unlike other religions but a pragmatic religion. Any of the activities that are done in Minecraft are hust games and not real.