Is it permissible to circumvent an oath not to download electronic games by asking your sister to download them on your phone?
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Downloading the game is permissible as long as it does not include anything prohibited by . Expiation () becomes obligatory upon breaking the oath, and it is not waived by delegating your sister to download it; because the intention was to refrain from playing it and having it on the mobile phone. The act of the agent is like the act of the principal, and it constitutes breaking the oath, whether the oath-taker performed it himself or ordered someone else to do it.
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