Playing football and kabaddi, and wrestling

Question

(1) Is it permissible to play ball, to play football, to play kabaddi (a team contact game), to practise stick-fighting, or not? (2) Is wrestling permissible or not? (3) Is wrestling in a wrestling tournament permissible or not?

Answer

(1) If one plays for physical exercise, training for jihad and maintaining health, it is permissible, but observing the covering of the ʿawra and the other limits of the Sharia is necessary, and absorption in it must not cause any neglect of the rulings of the Sharia — prayer, congregation and the like. (2, 3) In accordance with answer no.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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