Question:
I used to game all day, I was addicted. I escaped from life to a virtual world. Is it good, bad? Or just bad for me? I can’t spend my time worshipping. When I stopped gaming, everything in real life looked fake. And when I game now, I lose my sense of reality.. become lost in the void.
But I want to learn skills but have no one to teach me.. I resort to video games to do something. Always been like this.
Answer:
Audhu billahi min ash-shaytanir-rajeem
Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Raheem,
If you are addicted to it then it is very harmful to your mind and physical health. No doubt about it. In my opinion and thru my own experience I will say with no doubt that gaming is BAD. So you must stop gaming but in stages, meaning reduce the time you spend per day and over a period bring it down to 30 minutes a day, and eventually try to completely grow out of it. Its a complete waste of your valuable time and life.
Everything in real life is not fake. Eating food is not fake, breathing the air is not fake, the sun is not fake. Your mind does not want to deal with real life (because it is hard) so it tells you it is fake to get out of the hard work. Pinch yourself. do you get hurt? yes you do, and that is real.
Recite “Audhu billahimin ash-shaytanir-rajeem, Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Raheem” 100X every day.
Syed Shahzaman
