What is the ruling on programming and selling games for smartphones or computers, knowing that their users may be Muslims or non-Muslims, and that they may rely solely on thinking or combine thinking with luck and probability?
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The mere possibility of programs and games being misused does not render them forbidden, unless their prevalent use is for evil and the prohibited, or if it is known that the person requesting the programming will use them in a forbidden manner. As for someone whose situation is unknown, there is no harm in programming for them, and the sin falls upon whoever uses them in a prohibited way.
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