Watching Anime (Japanese Cartoon) Halal Or Haram?
With due respect aren’t these the Mutashaabihaat that you are quoting? And we have been clearly ordered to stay away from them and not go too deep?
Asalamualaikum To add on to the anime question if a show has magical powers in it and I enjoy team using them powers to fight is this Kufr
Asslamu alaykum don’t know if my message is still visible but I asked when I watch an anime that contains the kufr and shirk and enjoy those parts I still know they are wrong for example some animes contain magical powers and I enjoy watching them using the powers because it looks good but I still know magic is very wrong but is what I’m doing still kufr
Salam alaikum I’m also an anime fan here and glad to see this question was asked by brother @SOLDIER_TOAD . I had the exact same question surrounding anime/shows/games which featured stuff like “gods” (Mortal Kombat, dragon ball Z), an afterlife not in conjunction with Islamic belief (themes like reincarnation, or like in the anime bleach where people’s souls get super powers after death etc). Even started to have doubts about assassin’s Creed as that has somewhat of a message of religions being false (but I guess a lot of things in that game are open to interpretation too. Plus the series has a considerable Muslim fan base as some games are set in Muslim culture places). These shows and games are made by non-muslims who don’t know any better than us when it comes to these things. But then again even a lot of these shows are not per say banned in Muslim countries and some of them even have Arabic dubbed version too that air in conservative places like UAE and Saudi Arabia. Also I remember there was a video game which was popular in Saudi which featured Characters who were “gods” like God of thunder, water fire etc. When that game was translated and stuff into the Saudi version they replaced the “god” title with king. So we had the kings of thunder, fire, water instead in Saudi version. I personally think it’s okay to indulge in these forms of entertainment as long we are mindful of these things and don’t adopt the elements which are not in conjunction with our belief. With the whole “gods” theme one can just assume that these characters just have super powers and just assume them to be not the “gods” in literal sense (like Saudi did with that game) as we Muslims don’t even believe in an anthropomorphic God in the first place (Allah Swt is beyond the power of our imagination and literally there is absolutely nothing out there which even close to being like him).