Is Watching Anime A Sin In Islam

Imitating Anime (cartoon) heroes

Fatwa No: 325957

• Fatwa Appointment:2-four-2016 - Jumaadaa Al-Aakhir 24, 1437
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Question

Assalaamu alaykum. I have a question which I take been wanting to enquire for some time at present, only I am embarrassed to enquire the local scholars at my mosque and the religious people in my school. I am a 17-twelvemonth-old male who loves to watch anime (Japanese cartoons), which sometimes contains characters who are heroes, and I like to copy their actions, e.g. the way they fight, and their personalities. For example, if a grapheme is angry, I similar to re-create it. Now, these characters are sometimes seen committing sins and shirk (polytheism). My fantasies involve fighting like these characters; all the same, I never recall about associating partners (with Allaah) or performing magic like these characters sometimes exercise. Instead, I similar to recall that I am a Muslim who can fight like these characters and human action like them merely without doing shirk like they practice. Now, am I committing shirk because of the hadith of imitating the kuffar (disbelievers) even though it is just a cartoon. Just to analyze more, we are all familiar with the hero Batman. If Batman was a person who would commit shirk, merely I but desire to re-create the style Batman fights without associating partners with Allaah, and I want to pretend that I am Batman but without the aspects of shirk of it, is this still considered imitation of the kuffar?

Answer

All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah and that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger.

What you lot are doing in imitating those characters in the way they fight and the like is not shirk at all.

Shirk is to make an equal to Allaah and dedicate acts of worship, of which it is not permissible to dedicate them except to Allaah, to him. Allaah says (what means): { And [yet], amid the people are those who take other than Allaah as equals [to Him]. They love them as they [should] beloved Allaah... } [Quran 2:165].

'Abdullaah ibn Mas'ood narrated that he asked the Prophet " What is the greatest sin?" The Prophet replied, "It is to make partners with Allaah while He has created you lot... " [Al-Bukhari and Muslim]

Moreover, this act that you mentioned is not considered the simulated of the not-Muslims that is prohibited. Ibn 'Umar narrated that the Prophet said, " I was sent with the sword then that Allaah is worshiped alone without partners, and my provision was placed nether the shadow of my spear, and those who defy my lodge are disgraced and humiliated, and he who imitates a people is ane of them. " [Ahmad - Al-Albaani graded information technology saheeh (audio)]

The faux that is forbidden is the imitation in matters that are particular to the non-Muslims (i.e. their characteristics); Shaykh Ibn 'Uthaymeen said:

"Imitating the non-Muslims is when a person wears the aforementioned clothes as them or speaks like them and the like, to an extent that when one sees him, he would say: he is a non-Muslim; but the things that are common between the Muslims and the non-Muslims, then this is not (the forbidden) fake, such as men now wearing pants; we do non say that this is imitation, because this has become a custom for all. As regards the event of cars and so forth, then this is not faux at all."

We would like to describe your attention that there are Islamic weather condition for these games; please refer to them in fataawa 259372, 238003, and 188149.

You mentioned – praise exist to Allaah – that y'all similar to think that yous are a Muslim; this is good and you lot should exploit this in forming your Muslim personality on the basis of religion and attempt in doing what pleases Allaah past using your free time in gaining benign knowledge and performing skillful deeds. For some guidelines on how a Muslim should make good utilise of his gratis fourth dimension, please refer to fatwa 86533.

There is goose egg wrong for a person to entertain himself sometimes with what is permissible in order to avoid getting bored. Al-Bayhaqi reported in in Shu'ab Al-Eemaan and Ibn Hibbaan in his Saheeh that Wahb ibn Munabbih said, "Amidst the words of wisdom of Dawood (David ) is: A wise person should dissever his time into four: a time to address his Lord [such equally in prayer, supplication….]; a time to hold himself into account for his deeds; a time when he resorts to his brothers who would sincerely inform him about his shortcomings and faults and advise him in this regard; and a time to entertain and enjoy himself with what is permissible – as this latter time helps him suffer the other times and is a way of comforting his centre."

Allaah knows best.

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