Chess and Gambling Instruments: Can Official Approval Make Chess Permissible for the Mukallaf?
Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei
Chess and Gambling Instruments: Can Official Approval Make Chess Permissible for the Mukallaf?
English:
Question #1112:
Can the mukallaf deem the approval of the physical education department to hold chess competitions as an indication that chess is not among the instruments of gambling? And is it permissible for the mukallaf to depend on such a thing?
Answer #1112:
The yardstick in specifying the instance of rulings is the determination of the mukallaf himself or his having a shar‘ī proof to that effect.
-Imam Khamenei, Practical Laws of Islam, Importance and Conditions of Chess and Gambling Instruments