01-31-2010, 06:24 AM
Kasim I don't think that there can be any debate that forbidden in Islam. I find chess being called haram totally absurd and lack any rationale or logic. Chess is a sport, source of recreation and an exercise for brain. How and why should it be forbidden? According to my knowledge chess was not played in Arab at the time advent of Islam and if any body claims that chess was forbidden in Islam it is got to be by means of fatwa afterwards.
I like playing chess but I believe real life is altogether a different situation. I don't get the point of the applicability of chess in real life.
I like playing chess but I believe real life is altogether a different situation. I don't get the point of the applicability of chess in real life.