How can one reconcile the fatwa that prohibits games manufactured in the West—due to their glorification of disbelievers and the weakness of Arab armies depicted in them—with the reality of youth who find it difficult to find Arab alternatives free from prohibitions, especially since depriving them might lead them to greater forbidden acts such as pornographic films? And is it permissible to draw an analogy from the saying of those who permitted masturbation to prevent falling into adultery, to permit these games to avert the harm of watching those films?

Fatwas are based on understanding reality and Allah's ruling concerning it. Reality indicates a proliferation of prohibited games, such as those involving musical instruments, or those that glorify disbelievers and encourage violence. These cannot be declared permissible under the pretext of their widespread nature or minimizing evil, because that leads to permitting what is forbidden. What was mentioned in previous fatwas did not prohibit all games, but rather those that included prohibited elements. Abandoning these games does not lead to watching pornographic movies; rather, whoever abandons them in response to Islamic law will be more keen to abandon other prohibitions. It is not correct to compare them to the permissibility of masturbation in some cases due to necessity, for that falls under the category of committing the lesser of two harms, and prohibited games do not avert a greater harm. الدعاة (preachers/callers to Islam) must guide people to beneficial alternatives and occupy them with acts of obedience.