The ruling on quitting smoking to preserve one's health
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Question:
He says: Shaykh Salih, what is your view (may Allah preserve you) regarding a Muslim who stopped smoking out of fear for his health, after the doctors told him that he might contract cancer? This person said, “If it were not for my fear of the illness, I would not have stopped smoking.”
Answer:
He has no reward for that, but his stopping smoking to preserve his health is a matter for which he is responsible, for he is responsible for his health,[Al-Baqarah 2:195]. So we hope for him for a reward, if Allah wills, because he stopped smoking to preserve his health, and Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He) commanded him to preserve his health, [Al-Baqarah 2:195]. Yes.
He says: Shaykh Salih, what is your view (may Allah preserve you) regarding a Muslim who stopped smoking out of fear for his health, after the doctors told him that he might contract cancer? This person said, “If it were not for my fear of the illness, I would not have stopped smoking.”
Answer:
He has no reward for that, but his stopping smoking to preserve his health is a matter for which he is responsible, for he is responsible for his health,
and do not throw [yourselves] with your [own] hands into destruction [by refraining]
وَلَا تُلْقُوا بِأَيْدِيكُمْ إِلَى التَّهْلُكَةِand do not throw [yourselves] with your [own] hands into destruction [by refraining]
وَلَا تُلْقُوا بِأَيْدِيكُمْ إِلَى التَّهْلُكَةِ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [4462] حكم ترك التدخين حفاظًا على الصحة - صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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