Islamic Rules for Playing Sports

1. People must not utter bad words while watching and playing a sport.

2. Sport must not cause waste of time by getting the people who play and watch to abandon their education and work.  

3. The games to be played must not be means of gambling like football pools, jackpot, pick six, etc.

4. It must not prevent fard worshipping like the daily prayers and fasting from being performed on time.

5. It must not be too dangerous for the human body and cause death.

6. It must not cause hooliganism that will disturb people.

7. It must not exceed the limits of covering (tasattur) permitted by the Quran and sunnah.