http://football.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,9753,1605267,00.html
A fatwa on football
Monday October 31, 2005
The Guardian
The legal opinions proclaimed by Islamic scholars, known as fatwas, have
proliferated in the Muslim world since the 1980s. The growth in fatwas - some
of them contradictory - has led to debate over who can legitimately issue them.
As part of a government drive to eliminate frivolous fatwas, the Saudi
newspaper Al Watan recently published one such edict setting out new rules for
football. We publish an edited translation below.
In the name of God the merciful and benevolent:
1. International terminology that heretics use, such as "foul," "penalty",
"corner," "goal", "out" and others, should be abandoned and not said. Whoever
says them should be punished and ejected from the game.
2. Do not call "foul" and stop the game if someone falls and sprains a hand or
foot or the ball touches his hand, and do not give a yellow or red card to
whoever was responsible for the injury or tackle. Instead, it should be
adjudicated according to Sharia rulings concerning broken bones and injuries.
3. Do not follow the heretics, the Jews, the Christians and especially evil
America regarding the number of players. Do not play with 11 people. Add to
this number or decrease it.
4. Play in your regular clothes or your pyjamas or something like that, but not
coloured shorts and numbered T-shirts, because shorts and T-shirts are not
Muslim clothing. Rather, they are heretical and western clothing, so beware of
imitating their fashion.
5. If you have fulfilled these conditions and intend to play soccer, play to
strengthen the body in order better to struggle in the way of God on high and
to prepare the body for when it is called to jihad. Soccer is not for passing
time or the thrill of so-called victory.
6. Do not play in two halves. Rather, play in one half or three halves in order
to completely differentiate yourselves from the heretics, the corrupted and the
disobedient.
7. If neither of you beats the other, or "wins", as it is called, and neither
puts the leather between the posts, do not add extra time or penalties. Instead
leave the field, because winning with extra time and penalty kicks is the
pinnacle of imitating heretics and international rules.
8. Young crowds should not gather to watch when you play because if you are
there for the sake of sports and strengthening your bodies as you claimed, why
would people watch you? You should make them join your physical fitness and
jihad preparation, or you should say: "Go proselytise and seek out morally
reprehensible acts in the markets and the press and leave us to our physical
fitness."
9. You should spit in the face of whoever puts the ball between the posts or
uprights and then runs in order to get his friends to follow him and hug him
like players in America or France do, and you should punish him, for what is
the relationship between celebrating, hugging and kissing and the sports that
you are practising?
10. You should use two posts instead of three pieces of wood or steel that you
erect in order to put the ball between them, meaning that you should remove the
crossbar in order not to imitate the heretics and in order to be entirely
distinct from the soccer system's despotic international rules.
11. Do not do what is called "substitution," that is, taking the place of
someone who has fallen, because this is a practice of the heretics in America
and elsewhere.
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