article_snippet: On a lighter note, both billiards and table football are allowed  - albeit under strict conditions and with a warning that God does not look particularity favourably on such trivial pursuits.
article_snippet: Gambling on matches is, predictably, banned, but so is using table football characters shaped like humans, as the creation of anything imitating humans or animals is banned under ISIS' exceptionally strict interpretation of Islamic law.
article_snippet: It is permissible to play billiards providing the game does not allow gambling, encourage cursing, or inhibit the worshiping or God .
article_snippet: It is permissible to play foosball [table football] providing the game does not allow gambling, encourage cursing, feature characters in human or animal form, or inhibit the worshiping or God.
highlights_snippet: Billiards and table football are permitted but only under strict conditions .
  