u/99NamesOfGod

As salam alaikum.

1. In this book of fiqh it says that the amount of heavy filth excused on body or clothes is 3-5cm diameter, which is actually quite big -- like a debit card or tennis ball. But it says for human urine, which is likewise heavy filth, that it can be bigger than the head of a needles, which is insanely small.... so.... which is it? 3-5cm, or pin size?

2. This question and the following refer to a part-time job delivering pizza that I got: first off, checking to see if this is correct but it's permissible to deliver or transfer non-zabihah meat to the kafirun; just not eat it.

3. The manager said beards should be 1 inch or shorter. I think this is haram in the Hanafi madhab; but, for ease and for the purpose of not going put into homelessness... I could go with the Shafi'i opinion, though it would still be disliked... or.... I could just ignore the rule after hiring, I guess.

4. The biggest fiqh question that no scholar has been able to solve since the dawn of Islam (joking): The Prophet (pbuh) said if there's hot food, one should eat it before prayer. By analogy, if there's a hot pizza for delivery, and Maghrib and it's short window hits, should I finish the delivery first? What if I know I won't finish the salat by the end of the window? What if I am doubtful?

As salam alaikum wa rahmatullah wa barakatuh.

So first off, this is a serious question (and thanks for treating it as such). I feel like many Muslims brush this off in the past because it "sounds silly" and they speak without thinking: "It's just a game, bro, stop thinking so hard"; but God's law, and His Oneness, is serious.

I've been contemplating forming a Muslim clan in a game called "OldSchool RuneScape". I won't go too much into detail but I've pondered making one for community but several aspects of the game were brought to my attention which make me contemplate if it's even permissible to play at all.

The first off is images and creation of ensouled being for character creation, customization, and continued playing (mine is already made) and maintaining God's lordship as the Creator and Fashioner. I looked up some fatwas and articles on how far an image of a living thing can be made and it largely seemed to deal with effacing facial features. This game was made in the 1990's and hasn't updated its graphics sense so, when I look at the faces on it, they seem like dots or lines that wouldn't immediate strike someone as a face if you take it in strict isolation: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Duv_0OmoXWs/maxresdefault.jpg

The second is the existance of other so-called "gods" in the games, and recharging your prayer points at altars. Obviously they're made up for the pupose of a fantasy world, but this has been a critique of the game. However, it's possible to restore prayer through drinking potions and other methods less skeptical.

The third would be the existence of other haram things in the world: music in the game (they're not made with instruments but sound bytes so bit hard to tell); music instruments usable by the player's character, consumption of khamr (wine, other alcohol) by the character and ability to get drunk. Like praying at these altars: none of these are usually obligatory or common in the game. They're something that can happen. To play the advocate to someone who would say this video game is haram: how is it different from being in the real world, where these things "can" happen but you don't have to? Or does the fact that the game designers put them in in the first place render it forbidden or at least somewhat sketchy?

Pretty extensive question with a lot to take into account but, yeah, I'm relatively new to Islam (6 years study, took shahada not long ago) so this is something that perhaps passed over my head...

I am a big fan of tassawuf and have been reading about the maqam of wara and about how a lot the righteous saints would stay away from things they were skeptical about or, even further, things that were technically halal but didn't advance their Islam in any way they abandoned as a zahid. This is a valid way to look at it. I don't lose anything in Islam by giving this game up. But, at the same time, since I'm relatively new I don't want to bite off more than I can chew and go mega-sufi for now and strictly want to know if something like this, these aspects taken into consideration, is halal or haram.