Kufr and Shirk actions
Q: Do any of these constitute as SPECFICALLY SHIRK/KUFR (have I come out of the fold of Islam for these things):
1. Playing video games that have magic in them, voluntarily pressing buttons that make the character use magic?
2. Saving digital pictures/art online in a personal online account like Pinterest or Discord, using them as profile pictures or sending them to other people? (NOT producing/making them myself)
3. Watching videos of haraam stuff or people doing haraam stuff like playing a game, animated show, dancing, singing, drawing, or just of animate objects even if you do not believe that these are halaal actions or disallow shirk in your heart/mind?
4. Making up/imagining/daydreaming scenarios in your head where you have a completely different life as a non-muslim in a world without God, committing shirk or doing haraam things even if you would not do so in this life/reality and do not actually believe it in? Basically imagining myself imitating kufaars in another world because of a desire to mindlessly engage in worldly fun like other people where you wouldn’t be held accountable?
5. Enjoying viewing or talking about haraam stuff, like watching a dance and saying “it was a good dance” and NOT “dance is allowed in Islam” or like discussing what happened in a picture novel with people?
6. Talking casually with a kaafir online, not considered as a close friend, while making sure I do not engage with Shirk topics or explicitly encouraging their haraam ways/topics they bring up?
A:
1. If the game contains any elements of kufr, then obviously supporting it, condoning it or entertaining oneself with it will amount to disbelief.
2. Pictures of animate objects are haraam and forbidden. And publicising haraam is an even greater haraam.
3. This is haraam. Yes, to be pleased with haraam and to consider the haraam to be halaal is an act of kufr.
4. Condoning any haraam and entertaining oneself with haraam whilst being pleased with it is an act of kufr.
5. To speak in praise of haraam is also haraam.
6. Why have a bond with kaafirs? A muslim is supposed to be bonding with a good practising Muslim.
And Allah Ta'ala (الله تعالى) knows best.
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