{"id":9831,"date":"2018-02-02T18:23:28","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T18:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/?p=9831"},"modified":"2018-02-02T18:24:09","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T18:24:09","slug":"making-online-educational-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/making-online-educational-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Making online educational games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><strong>Fatwa ID: 02381<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><strong>Answered by:<\/strong>&nbsp;Molana Muhammad Adnan<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><strong>Question:<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">I&#39;m a game developer, and i had a plan to sell my game. I&#39;ve read your&nbsp;fatwaa regarding computer game which one is halal and which one is&nbsp;haram. But i&#39;ve still got questions about it.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">My game is an Education Real Time Strategy games that teach and train&nbsp;user in math, physics, chemistry, ecology, and business management. It&nbsp;contains problems to be solved on other to make the users understand the&nbsp;concept in science such as Calculus , mechanical engineering, etc. In my&nbsp;game there will be some fictional places (levels) and units (building,&nbsp;trucks, train, heavy equipment), but the unit like building factory,&nbsp;farm, transportation, plantation will be imitating those what we saw in&nbsp;real life. There are no music, or living things like animals, human,&nbsp;fantasy creature in my project. I&#39;m trying to avoid any prohibited&nbsp;aspect from islamic teaching in my project.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<br \/>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">My Question are:<br \/>\n\t&#8211; Is this type of game permissible for me to sell? if not please give me&nbsp;advice to makes it halal.<br \/>\n\t&#8211; Is it permissible to sell Education games that contains fictional but&nbsp;based on reality places like arbitrary farm, city, lakes, ocean, etc? considering that the purpose is to train the user to calculate the&nbsp;solution of problems based on as much conditions possible.<br \/>\n\t&#8211; Can you give me a concrete examples of what type of educational video&nbsp;games that is halaal for Muslims developer to sell? For examples like&nbsp;Cities Skylines, Sudoku, Transport Tycoon, Railroad Tycoon. Those are&nbsp;examples of games that i think halal because it is educational, no music&nbsp;(or even if there is, the music can still be turned off), no living&nbsp;things creation like human, animal, fantasy creatures etc. But i still&nbsp;want to know your opinion.<br \/>\n\t&#8211; Is it considered helping other in sin when i sell my products to&nbsp;Steam, Amazon Appstore, Google Play Store, Apple Appstore?<br \/>\n\t&#8211; Where can i get halal certification for my games? Can you provide the&nbsp;address or contact?<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><strong>Answer<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><strong>\u0628\u0633\u0645 \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647 \u0627\u0644\u0631\u062d\u0645\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u0631\u062d\u064a\u0645<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">-If your educational video game is exactly as described above then it will be permissible. The key thing is that it shouldn&rsquo;t have any elemants of Haram.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">-Pictures\/videos of nonliving souls are permitted. Saaiduna Ibn Abbas&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Description: ra\u1e0dyAll\u0101hu 'anhu (may All\u0101h be pleased with him)\" height=\"20\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\\Users\\user\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\msohtmlclip1\\01\\clip_image002.gif\" width=\"23\" \/>&nbsp;has said, I heard the Prophet of Allah&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Description: \u1e63allall\u0101hu 'alayhi wa sallam (peace and blessings of All\u0101h be upon him)\" height=\"20\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\\Users\\user\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\msohtmlclip1\\01\\clip_image004.gif\" width=\"22\" \/>&nbsp;saying, &ldquo;Every painter will go to Hell, and for every portrait he has made, there will be appointed one who will chastise him in Hell.&rdquo; Saaiduna Ibn Abbas&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Description: ra\u1e0dyAll\u0101hu 'anhu (may All\u0101h be pleased with him)\" height=\"20\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\\Users\\user\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\msohtmlclip1\\01\\clip_image002.gif\" width=\"23\" \/>&nbsp;said: If you have to do it, draw pictures of trees and other inanimate things. (Sahih Bukhari p.296 v.1)<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">-Generally, if the educational games are as you describe them then they will be permitted.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">&#8211; You will not be partaking in sin if you sell your products online.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Only Allah knows best<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Written by Molana Muhammad Adnan<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Checked and approved by Mufti Mohammed Tosir Miah<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Darul Ifta Birmingham<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fatwa ID: 02381 Answered by:&nbsp;Molana Muhammad Adnan Question: I&#39;m a game developer, and i had a plan to sell my game. 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