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#1 [Permalink] Posted on 9th August 2016 16:27

In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

As-salāmu ‘alaykum wa-rahmatullāhi wa-barakātuh

Before John Hanke headed Niantic Labs who founded Pokemon, he ran Google’s Geo division, every city block on the planet.
Today, Pokemon requires uninterrupted use of your location and camera. Together with Google Maps & Pokemon, your sensitive data, your whereabouts are all up for grabs from anywhere in the world.
Wifaqul Ulama urges all Muslims to ask themselves, Is your Privacy a Game?

theintercept.com/2016/08/09/privacy-scandal-haunts-pokemo...

twitter.com/WifaqulUlama/status/763031557905022980

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#2 [Permalink] Posted on 9th August 2016 16:43

(I had issues posting last week and therefore missed posting this for the Makkah news thread)

Pokémon mania near Holy Kaaba slammed

Thursday 28 July 2016

MAKKAH: Even the holiest of all places is not spared by the Pokémon Go craze. The mobile game has taken the fight between its characters to the Holy Kaaba, and points of collection are being found on the gates of the Grand Mosque.

Opinions are rife about the game saying it is a violation of the sanctity of the Grand Mosque in particular and all other mosques, because some of its characters are inside mosques and the game spies on users.

Sheikh Abdullah Al-Munea, a member of the Council of Senior Scholars, said the game is a national security hazard as it aims to uncover secret locations, which is considered treason.

When the website team visited Makkah, it found that one of the fighting grounds of Pokémon was actually atop Kaaba. Around the new mataf, five players were found playing, and the number is growing. The points of gifts and the game’s characters were in front of gates of the mosque.

Appeals Court Judge and member of the Shoura Council Sheikh Issa Al-Ghaith said with regard to finding Pokémon characters on the Kaaba, hacking it and playing it without moving, “in general, I do not think there is anything ‘haram’ (forbidden) in it as it is.”

Nawaf Shaheen, a gaming expert, said: “Pokémon Go has also used a data bank from another game called Ingress. It wants the players to determine important locations in their cities. Among these places are hospitals, mosques and markets.”

He said that some people do not even know the content of the game and its subject.

Some people believe that it was targeting Muslims and Islam. Pokémon Go is a normal entertainment game; in each update, it changes its security settings and adds guidelines for players. For example, if a player is driving his car above 20 km per hour, the Pokémon characters do not appear.

Suhaib Khairallah, a technology expert and partner member in Microsoft Saudia, said Pokémon Go is not available in Saudi or other Arab countries. How can it target Muslims? He said the characters are largely found in mosques, markets and restaurants because the game covers areas where lots of people are found. The users join each other through Google maps.

Mashable website says that the designer of Pokémon Go, the executive president and founder of Niantic, was one of the workers of Google and has used data from an old game called Ingress which demands players to point out major features of their cities. The players presented 15 million such locations, of which 5 million are being used by Pokémon Go. Among these locations are holy sites.

www.arabnews.com/node/960951/saudi-arabia

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#3 [Permalink] Posted on 9th August 2016 18:05

ANALOGY OF POKEMON GO
Pokemon go (actually any game) is an aimless effort to collect useless product.
Allah Subhanuwa Tala has compared this worldly life as a game (close to the effect, Layib wa Lahwa)
Due to the similarity with worldly life, games have always been of an interest and a constant source of fitna throughout the ages.
Our Pokemon Go should have been as followed:

First we fix our aim (to enter Jannah) and start collected useful everlasting hasana.
Instead of going out and collecting poke balls, super portions, eggs etc...
We go out and collect the following things:
Stepping out of door and saying bismillahi tawaqaltu alAllah wa La hawla ... we get hasana and protection.
Going to market saying the dua we get 100000 hasana
Going anywhere and lowering gaze - huge hasana and sweetness of iman
Going to masjid say masnun dua - gates of paradize open
Going to washroom and say dua - khabis gets fooled
Climbing vehicle and masnun dua, smile looking towards the sky, Allah exclaims and says (close to the effect) does my slave knows he/she has a rabb?
Above all going out and giving dawa (proclaiming the greatness of Allah) targeting one's own Kalb - Shaitan's effort of dumping poisonous hidden shirk through waswasa gets nullified.

And so on....
Everlasting hasana, benefit of this world and hereafter.

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#4 [Permalink] Posted on 9th August 2016 20:41

It is getting pretty crazy, to a point where one man gave up his full-time job to collect Pokemon, and people now considering naming newborn babies with Pokemon characters.

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