Is the money earned by snooker tables and machine games where people pay to play, halaal?

Answer

This 'mufti' is lamentably stupid to say the least. These games of gambling and lahw-la'b are shaitaani devices. They open the avenue for immorality besides gambling. How can a mufti blunder into self-deception to the degree of failing to understand an issue which is clearer than daylight?

Snooker and similar other games of shaitaan are played in extremely unsavoury places where unsavoury characters – kuffaar, fussaaq and fujjaar – always congregate and engage in lewdness and plain shaitaaniyat. Casinos, cafes and similar haunts of the devil are the primary venues for these evil games. But this miscreant mufti says that it is permissible.

It is most unintelligent to labour in nafsaani self -deception by negating music and pictures from this Satanist game. These evils are integral constituents of these games in the haunts where the machines are housed and played.

Paying money for indulgence in futility, and worse, for haraam futility, is haraam. There is absolutely no scope for permissibility of snooker or any of the other types of shaitaani games.

Rasulullah (Sallallahu alayhi wasallam) condemned even chess and such games, saying that playing with these artefacts of the devil is "like dipping the hand in the blood of a swine".

So, how can a mufti ever conduct himself so ignorantly as to issue a fatwa of permissibility for filth and obscenity such as snooker games?

The money earned from snooker tables and such games of gambling and immorality is haraam even if the machines are not used for actual gambling.

The fatwa is absolutely corrupt and baatil.

The mufti does not know whether he is coming or going, unable to distinguish between Haqq and baatil.