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In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.
In this fatwa:
We would urge you to seek repentance and stay away from Genshin Impact game in order to save your faith.
Responding to your question, Sheikh Ahmad Kutty, a senior lecturer and an Islamic scholar at the Islamic Institute of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, states:
It would be best if you stayed away from such games. There is nothing worse in Islam than shirk or associating partners with Allah. To worship a statue or touch it expecting to gain a benefit or prevent harm or other favors, etc., are pure shirk.
You cannot pretend to be a Muslim while practicing such blatant forms of shirk. You need to renew your faith and seek repentance if you have been involved in such games or promoting them.
Let me explain this:
Shirk, no doubt, is the gravest sin in Islam. Allah says, “Verily ascribing of divinity to any other than Allah is an awesome wrong!” (Luqman31: 13)
The reason why it is such terrible sin is because of the simple fact that since Allah is the Creator, Sustainer, Cherisher, Provider, and the One who alone is the source of life and death and of all things in the universe by ascribing such powers to any other than Him is indeed an enormity.
Therefore, one who commits shirk deprives himself of salvation in the next world. Allah says, “Behold, whoever ascribes divinity to any being beside God, unto him will God deny paradise, and his final abode shall be the fire: and such evildoers will have none to succor them!” (Al-ma’idah 5:72)
And we are told in another place in the Qur’an: “Verily, God does not forgive the ascribing of divinity to aught beside Him, although He forgives any lesser sin unto whomever He wills: for he who ascribes divinity to aught beside God has indeed contrived an awesome sin.” (An-Nisa’ 4:48)
The Prophet (peace be upon him) was asked about shirk, and he replied, “It is associating a partner with Allah while He alone is the One who created you.” (Al-Bukhari and Muslim)
The enormity of shirk can also be explained by saying:
“Tawhid is all about liberation and freedom. It means that we refuse to bow down before anything or anyone other than our Creator and Lord- including idols or statues made of gold, stone or wood, as well as idols of humans in the shape of leaders, priests or gurus as intermediaries or partners in divinity. A true believer in tawhid is thus free of all such forms of slavery, and is a slave to none but God.”
Therefore, I would urge you to seek repentance and stay away from such games in order to save your faith. Otherwise you are risking your salvation. I pray to Allah to bless us with steadfastness on the straight path and seal our lives with faith and good works.
Almighty Allah knows best.