I do not find a negative point in any of the above issues...

I do not find a negative point in any of the above issues, if the general atmosphere does not become one of such personal veneration, alien to the results aimed at by organizers in the social field and the positive effects which they hope to see on youths.

Becoming totally immersed in the games per se may mean that the games that attract interest surround youths in a way by which the more important concerns are lost; or more important happenings relating to societal, political, functional and cultural aspects of reality are dismissed. If the interest in sports does not reach the level outlined above, no negative issue is involved.

However, when it changes into an obsession, we must object, since it becomes larger than human concerns and surpasses the positive results intended from it. We notice that many organizations and international organs of corruption take advantage of this condition to distract youths for their own political agendas. This is what we wish to caution against.

We have noted that immersion in this atmosphere, especially in some advanced countries like America and Europe, people place such great value on these games that that games demand all their attention, to the point where political and social concerns are of lesser concern. Many leaders of Third World countries try to prevent youth from facing great problems that may have severe repercussions on these rulers.

Society does not pay attention to these problems, since they are so attentive to games that they are detached from current events. It is known that horse-racing is used for gambling and betting. What is the ruling on strictly the entertainment side of the sport, namely, looking and attending? One of the things that I would like for horse racing is that it be an activity that encourages nurturing.

Observing its results at several levels, this sport by nature used to strengthen the faculties of people in the face of war or similar situations. However, this has changed to gambling and betting. Thus it touches haram and leads to the negative consequences that gambling usually causes. There is no doubt that betting is wasteful in this type of sport or competition.

If a person wagers with another that such-and-such a horse will beat another horse, the situation implies the presence of a childlike personality which does not reflect on what competition between one person and another humanly means.