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What is the ruling on games that allow the player to travel through time or slow it down, and what is the ruling on games that enable the player to move between worlds, and does one who plays them commit an act of disbelief (kufr)?

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Traveling to the past is truly impossible due to its contradiction with the Holy Qur’an, which denies the possibility of witnessing past nations or the creation of the heavens and the earth. The claim of traveling to the future is false because it involves knowledge of the unseen, which Allah has reserved exclusively for Himself. However, playing games that involve time travel is permissible under certain conditions: that it is not accompanied by any forbidden belief, that it does not include any prohibited elements such as music or the glorification of idols, and that it does not distract from an obligatory duty, with a preference that a Muslim occupies their time with what benefits them.

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