Inquiring about smoking and tobacco: are they among the forbidden things or the disliked things, or what?

Question:
May Allah reward you with good, and may He do you good. He says: I am inquiring about smoking, tobacco, and shisha; are they among the forbidden things or the disliked things, or what? Please inform us, may Allah reward you with good.

Answer:
Smoking, tobacco, and shisha, or whatever is chewed, anything that intoxicates or causes drowsiness is forbidden. It is forbidden to consume it by any means, whether by sniffing, smoking, or storing it, or otherwise, due to the harm in it, the diseases it causes, and the wasting of prayers. Those who use shisha are reported to remain for long hours without praying, without remembering Allah the Exalted, and without doing any work for their religion or their worldly affairs. This is among the forbidden things, and it is a great harm to a person to waste the prayers and to waste the interests of religion and the world, and to sit for a long time with this foul substance. Likewise, smoking is harmful, and it is sufficient to note what has been established in all countries, and by all doctors and hospitals, regarding the harms and evils of smoking. It is obligatory for Muslims, especially, and for people of sound mind, generally, to avoid these foul substances, , and in what Allah the Exalted has permitted of good things, the Muslim is sufficient without these aforementioned foul things.