Is income earned from video game machines permissible? These are not gambling machines but merely for entertainment.

Video entertainment games have many unIslamic factors in them. Apart from%0D%0Athe games having music and pictures which are prohibited, the nature of the%0D%0Agames offered, for example, karate, shooting, killing, racing etc. have a%0D%0Apotential of raising ones emotions and imbalance in a person, thus having%0D%0Afar reaching negative consequences in many aspects of ones life.%0D%0A%0D%0AConsider the following from the Encyclopedia, 1993-1997 - Microsoft Corp.%0D%0A"Critics of video games contend that children spend too much time and money%0D%0Aon the games and that immersion in the fantasy of video games can have%0D%0Aadverse effects on personality maturation. There have also been reports that%0D%0Athe flashing graphics can trigger seizures in people who have certain types%0D%0Aof epilepsy."%0D%0A%0D%0AIn view of the unIslamic factors in video games, it is not permissible to%0D%0Aplay with them.%0D%0A%0D%0AIt is also not permissible to open an entertainment centre with video games.%0D%0AThe income generated from entertainment video machines will not be%0D%0Apermissible.%0D%0A%0D%0Aand Allah Ta'ala Knows Best%0D%0A%0D%0AMufti Ebrahim Desai%0D%0AFATWA DEPT.%0D%0A