Cards and Chess

Question :

What is the ruling regarding card playing and chess, both of which, for the most part, do not deter people from praying?

Answer:

Because of the frivolity that is intrinsic to them both, because they deter people from remembering Allâh Almighty and from praying, because they are a waste of time, and because they often lead to ill will between the players involved, both of these games are forbidden. The prohibition is more severe when people play them for money an unlawful form of gambling that there is no doubt in, and no difference of opinion about.

And with Allah is the facilitation to do what is right.

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