This slide program explains addiction to video games. What are the views of scientific community about video games addiction. How to prevent this addiction. What is the treatment for this addiction. What is Islamic perspective on video game addiction.

2. • Addiction has long been understood to mean an
uncontrollable habit of using alcohol or other drugs
• People can also develop addictions to behaviors, such
as gambling, and even quite ordinary and necessary
activities such as exercise and eating
• Two aspects are common in all addictions:
1.Addictive behavior is maladaptive or counter-
productive to the individual
2.The behavior is persistent. When someone is addicted,
they will continue to engage in the addictive behavior,
despite it causing them trouble

3. Video games include:
•Computer games,
•Console games,
•Arcade machine
games
•Cell phone,
•PDA
•Advanced calculator
games

4. Video Games Addiction is part of IAD

6. • American Medical Association defined heavy gaming as
playing for more than two hours per day
• Estimates are that gamers spend playing video games
from 6 to 12 hours per week
• When game playing is addictive, it takes over as the
person’s main way of coping with life, with other
important areas of life being neglected or disrupted as
a result.
• Addiction is seen mostly in Massive Multiplayer Online
Role Playing Game -- MMORPG for short, which make
up 9.1% of gamers, and may overlap with other types
of internet addiction or computer addiction.

7. • Amount of time spent playing,
• The strong emotional attachment to the activity,
• The patterns of social difficulties experienced by
gaming addicts.
• It disrupts family and other areas of life, such as school
• The younger that children begin playing video games,
the more likely they are to develop dependence-like
behaviors.
• Some gamers feel unable to reduce the time they spend
playing, others do not experience cravings if they are
unable to play.

8. • Addiction
• Increased risk of light-induced seizures
• Musculoskeletal disorders of the upper extremities
• Increased metabolic rate
• Increased aggressive thoughts
• Aggressive behaviors, particularly in children under
age 10.
• Desensitization and empathy to violence. It leads to an
underestimation of the seriousness of observed
violence and reduces the likelihood of helping a victim
• Reduced pro-social (cooperative) behaviors in social
interactions

9. Why Video Games Are Addictive?
• Physical- Video gaming is in the same category as
gambling, which elevates dopamine during the act
of play
• Psychological-1-The knowledge that ‘I can escape
or feel good about my life.’ Dissociating from
reality, 2-Replacing it with a fantasy world where
they can be whoever they want to be and perform
tasks that they have always craved in real world but
are unable to do so.
• Parenting Style-parent’s negative interactions
drives the child into the world of video games.

10. • Use the ratings system to choose video games for your
child
• Limit your child to 1 to 2 hours of total daily screen
time
• Monitor and restrict your child's use of video games,
TV and the Internet
• Teach your child internet safety
• Stay updated with research into the effects of video
games
• Engage your child in a range of healthy activities
• Teach your child a variety of ways of coping with
emotions and disappointments

11. • The American Academy of Pediatrics' recommends that
parents limit screen time to no more than two hours
per day includes television, videos/DVDs, and video
games
• •Allow your child to play for 20 minutes per day
• You can set two days a week as "video game" days
• •Bring handheld video games to social events only on
special occasions
• •When your children's friends gather at your house,
limit the amount of time they play video games.
• Talk to your child about why you want to reduce his or
her screen time

23. • 1. We admitted we were powerless over gaming,
and that our lives have become unmanageable.
Principles - Honesty and Acceptance
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than
ourselves could restore us to sanity.
Principle - Hope
• 3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives
over to the care of God as we understood God.
Principle - Faith

24. • 4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory
of ourselves.
Principles - Action and Courage
• 5. Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another
human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
Principle - Integrity
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these
defects of character.
Principle - Willingness

25. • 7. Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings.
Principle - Humility
• 8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and
became willing to make amends to them all.
Principle - Brotherly love
• 9. Made direct amends to such people wherever
possible, except when to do so would injure them
or others.
Principle - Justice

26. • 10. Continued to take personal inventory and
when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
Principle - Perseverance
• 11. Sought through prayer and meditation to
improve our conscious contact with God as we
understood God, praying only for knowledge of
Gods will for us and the power to carry that out.
Principle - Spirituality
• 12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result
of these steps, we carried this message to others
who game excessively and practiced these
principles in all our affairs. Principle - Service

27. • Islam allows everything unless proven it doesn't
• The proof can only come from the Quran or the
authentic Hadith.
• Video games are like most things: they can be used for
good or for bad objectives
• If the game teaches you Islam, Arabic, reading,
problem solving, etc., then it's good.
• If you play for money then it's forbidden gambling. If it
distracts you so much that you miss prayers then it
caused a sin. If it displays haram stuff then it's haram.
• Wasting of time is also not permitted so don't sit
hours together by playing video games

28. Quran on value of time
• He (Allah) created death and life that He may test
you, to see which of you is the best in deeds.
(Mulk,67:2)
I have not created the jinn and men except for this
that they should worship Me alone
(Dhariayat,51:56)

29. Quran
This worldly life is but a sport and an amusement. In
fact, the abode of the Hereafter is better for those
who desire to be safe from harm. Will you not,
then, use your common sense? (Anam,6:32)
Well, let them remain absorbed in their falsehoods
and sports, till they see that Day of theirs with
which they are being threatened. (Zukhruf,43: 83)

30. Quran
The inmates of Hell will cry out to the people of
Paradise: “Pour upon us a little water or throw down
a bit of the provisions Allah has bestowed upon you.”
The people of Paradise will reply, “Allah has forbidden
both these things to the disbelievers, who had made
their religion a sport and a pastime, and who had
been deluded by the worldly life.” (Aaraaf,7: 50-51)

31. Hadith
• Yahiya said that he heard Malik say, "There is no
good in chess, and he (Prophet -SAW) disapproved
of it." Yahiya said, "I heard the Prophet (SAW)
disapprove of playing it and other worthless games.
He recited this ayah, 'What is there after the truth
except going the wrong way.' " (Surah l0 verse 32).
(Al-Muwatta Hadith 52.7)
• Prophet (SAW) said, "Whoever plays games of dice
has disobeyed Allah and His Messenger.“
Al-Muwatta Hadith 52.6

32. • Illusionary battles which train a person in what to do in
similar circumstances [in real life];
• Being alert so as to save oneself from danger;
• Fighting enemies and destroying targets; planning;
having adventures;
• Finding the way out of a labyrinth;
• Escaping from wild beasts;
• Racing cars, planes, etc.;
• Overcoming obstacles;
• Searching for treasure.
• Educational: Taking things apart and putting them back
together, jigsaw puzzles, building things, coloring, and
shading and lighting.

33. Types of Games
• Virtual worlds (e.g. Second Life) are computer-
based simulated environments, through which
users interact through digital avatars and engage in
various types of social activities
• Simulation games (e.g. The Sims) replicate real life
activities. Players assume more of a “manager” or a
“creator” role during game play
• First-person shooters (FPS) (e.g. Counter Strike) are
weapon-based combat games from the first-person
perspective.

34. Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games
(MMORPGs) (e.g. World of Warcraft) combine the
elements from virtual worlds, simulation games and
some aspects of first-person shooters. Groups and
tribes are common in MMORPGs. Cooperation with
(and competition against) others are integral to the
game. These are the most addictive game genre
Casual games are short and simple games, usually
played on mobile phones or directly over internet.
Examples are Angry Birds, Bejeweled and Plants vs
Zombies. These are popular among smartphone users
as a convenient time-filler, at bus stops and train
stations for instance

35. • 1. Distract players from obligatory duties like Salah
• 2-Games which depict wars between the people of
this world (“good guys”) and people from the sky
(“bad guys”), with accusations against God or the
noble angels.
• 3. Games which involve sanctifying the cross or
passing over or by it to gain strength, to bring one
back to life or the give the player extra “lives” and
so on.
• 4. Games which approve of witchcraft/magic, and
which glorify witches/magicians/sorcerers, etc.

36. • 5. Games which are based on hatred of Islam and
Muslims
• 6. Games that glorify the Kuffar (disbelievers) and
show pride in belonging to them
• 7. Games that include depictions of nudity, and
pornographic pictures
• 8-Games that corrupt morals, such as games where
the idea is to run away with a girlfriend from the
bad guys or a dragon
• 9-Games based on ideas of gambling

37. Haram(forbidden) elements in video games
• 10-Physical harm, such as damage to the eyes and
nervous system; harmful effects of game sounds on
the ears. Addictive effect.
• 11- Making children get used to violence and
criminality, and teaching them to take killing and
murder lightly, as in the famous “Doom” game
• 12-Corrupting children’s sense of reality by
teaching them about a world of illusions and
impossible things, such as coming back from the
dead, supernatural powers that do not really exist,
images of space aliens, and so on.

38. • 1. “Devil May Cry 3” (for PS2 platform) One scene
in the game portrays the door of Kaaba as a door
that connects the two worlds; the world of shaytan
and the real world... and the character who opens
that door is a c.g.i. character who submitted himself
to the power of the black magic.
• 2. “Counter Strike Condition Zero Deleted” Its First
Stage.. the player have to fight and shoot soldiers
who are portrayed as Muslims. If we notice.. during
the shooting scenes and when hit, we could hear
the soldiers shouting ALLAHUAKBAR... JIHADD...

39. 3. “Prince Of Persia”
The sword in the game... there is an Arabic Calligraphy on
it which says 'Convey my teaching to the people even if it
were a single sentence' (hadith)
4-Grand Theft Auto-
•Includes indecent sexual scenes
•Main theme in all the games in this series is based on car
theft
•Gang mentality is promoted and crime is marketed as
something “cool”.
•Two boys aged 14 and 16 shot and killed a man after
being inspired by this game.

40. Examples of forbidden video games
• 5-Tomb Raider-has indecent scenes
• 6-First To Fight- It is insulting Islam.
• Cities are cleansed of bearded men and
• Mosques are bombed whilst the sound of the azaan
is coming form them, and
• Shots are fired at Mushafs
• You cannot move on to the next level unless you
cleanse the city of Muslims and their mosques
• 7-Metal Gear Solid-extreme violence,
implied child rape, references to suicide

41. • Video games addiction is a reality
• Parents need to take preventive steps to save their
children from it
• Islam does not prohibit entertainment as long as
there are no forbidden elements in there.
• However, we need to limit our time in electronic
media
• We need to realize that time at our disposal is very
precious and must be utilized judiciously
• Activities to please Allah (SWT) and achieve success
in the Akhirah must take precedence
CONCLUSION