Hans-Georg Michna
2017-01-06 12:00:57 UTC
Since he probably means all chess-like board games, let me quote
here from
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/playing-chess-is-more-sinful-than-gambling-muslim-televangelist.aspx?PageID=238&NID=108037&NewsCatID=393
Turkish televangelist Ahmet Mahmut Ünlü, popularly known as
“Cübbeli” Ahmet Hoca (Robed Ahmet Hoca), has raised eyebrows by
claiming that playing chess is more sinful than gambling, daily
Hürriyet reported on Jan. 2.
Ünlü said chess players were “cursed” and claimed that “most
people who played chess are liars.”
“Playing chess is worse than gambling and eating pork ... People
who play chess are more prone to lying than others. People who
play chess may not say the shahada [declaration of Islamic
belief] while they are dying,” he said.
“People who play chess are cursed ... You should count your
prayer beads instead of playing games like this,” he added.
Ünlü had hit headlines on Nov. 14 in 2014 by condemning the
European Space Agency’s (ESA) successful landing of the Philae
probe on the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, describing the
mission as “maniacal.”
More recently, he waded into a debate on the religious
permissiveness of oral sex, slamming a colleague for describing
it as religiously forbidden and saying there is no such ban in
Islam.
January/02/2017
here from
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/playing-chess-is-more-sinful-than-gambling-muslim-televangelist.aspx?PageID=238&NID=108037&NewsCatID=393
Turkish televangelist Ahmet Mahmut Ünlü, popularly known as
“Cübbeli” Ahmet Hoca (Robed Ahmet Hoca), has raised eyebrows by
claiming that playing chess is more sinful than gambling, daily
Hürriyet reported on Jan. 2.
Ünlü said chess players were “cursed” and claimed that “most
people who played chess are liars.”
“Playing chess is worse than gambling and eating pork ... People
who play chess are more prone to lying than others. People who
play chess may not say the shahada [declaration of Islamic
belief] while they are dying,” he said.
“People who play chess are cursed ... You should count your
prayer beads instead of playing games like this,” he added.
Ünlü had hit headlines on Nov. 14 in 2014 by condemning the
European Space Agency’s (ESA) successful landing of the Philae
probe on the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, describing the
mission as “maniacal.”
More recently, he waded into a debate on the religious
permissiveness of oral sex, slamming a colleague for describing
it as religiously forbidden and saying there is no such ban in
Islam.
January/02/2017