Darulifta Ahlesunnat
(Dawateislami)
Question
What do the
scholars of Islam say about the following matter: Are sports in which the face
is struck permissible, such as boxing?
بِسْمِ اللہِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِیْمِ
اَلْجَوَابُ بِعَوْنِ الْمَلِکِ الْوَھَّابِ اَللّٰھُمَّ ھِدَایَۃَ
الْحَقِّ وَالصَّوَابِ
In normal
circumstances, boxing and other sports in which the face is hit are
impermissible and haram for several reasons:
1. It is
haram to strike the face of a human without a valid shar’i
reason. In fact, when Islamic courts of law sentenced someone to a judicial
corporal punishment, it was still not permissible to hit ˹the convict˺ in the
face. It is even prohibited to throw water on the face with force during wudu.
Thus, if it is not permitted to strike the face when enforcing judicial
punishments nor to throw water on the face with force whilst making wudu, how
can permission be given for sports in which striking the face is a key feature?
2. In these
sports, the body parts which have to be veiled obligatorily are usually
exposed. Unnecessarily exposing these body parts is impermissible and haram
even in solitude, so how great of a sin will it be to expose them in front of
others? Moreover, it is even impermissible and haram to expose these body parts
before others for the purpose of istinjāʾ, whereas they
are exposed in these sports merely for entertainment and play, so how could
this be permissible? Rather, it is Fard (compulsory),
by consensus, to conceal the body parts which have to be veiled obligatorily in
front of others and during salah.
3. Such
sports are a form of trivial entertainment and amusement which has no religious
or worldly benefit. Every form of triviality is, at the very least, disliked (makrūh) and not allowed. Thus, if a form of
entertainment also has an impermissible element, such as sports which involve
hitting the face, it will be impermissible and haram.
وَاللہُ اَعْلَمُ عَزَّوَجَلَّ وَرَسُوْلُہ اَعْلَم صَلَّی اللّٰہُ تَعَالٰی عَلَیْہِ وَاٰلِہٖ
وَسَلَّم
Answered
By :
Mufti Muhammad Hashim Khan Attari Madani
10th
of Safarul Muzaffar, 1444 A.H./ September 07, 2022
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