Is entering a video game arcade frequented by children and youth for entertainment permissible (halal) or forbidden (haram)?
Electronic games, their permissibility and impermissibility depend on their content, and they are a double-edged sword. To ensure lawful earnings for the owner of a game store, the following matters must be observed: avoiding games that contain objectionable elements such as music, forbidden images, and anything that violates Islamic law, guiding young people in their conduct and manners, and urging them to maintain prayers at their prescribed times. Failure to observe these matters makes the earnings unlawful. People, in dealing with enjoining good and forbidding evil, are of two types: believers who enjoin good and forbid evil, and hypocrites who enjoin evil and forbid good.
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