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What is the ruling on video games that when the character dies he comes back to life, either automatically you just spawn at a certain place or you respawn by pressing a button because i read that this is haram and many games that we play nowadays on the playstation have this so it is hard to avoid. should we just consider the playstation as being haram overall because there is hardly any games that are free from this?
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All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah, and that Muhammad 
is His slave and messenger.
The view that we adopt here in Islamweb is that it is not permissible to play electronic games that involve what contradicts the Islamic 'Aqeedah (creed), like reviving the dead and other matters that contradict the Islamic 'Aqeedah.
The legal status of being forbidden is conditional to the operative cause ('Illah), which is the existence of Sharee'ah violations. Whenever such violations exist in a game, then that game is forbidden. If the game does not contain Sharee'ah violations, then it is permissible.
Hence, the ruling does not apply to the device itself, as the device may contain games that do not involve any religious prohibitions, so it is not correct to rule that the device which you mentioned [PlayStation] is forbidden.
For more benefit, please refer to Fataawa 86106 and 83778.
Allaah Knows best.
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