The Ruling on Selling Tobacco in a Grocery Store
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: He has a grocery store. Is it permissible for him to sell tobacco if he does not smoke it?
Answer:
It is not permissible. It is forbidden to smoke it, forbidden to sell it, and forbidden to buy it. It is a corrupt thing among the corrupt things, and it is harmful. It has no benefit whatsoever, except its effect on the human stomach. If you light a fire in a large room, does the room not become black? The human stomach is narrower than the room, so what will its blackness be, may Allah protect us from it? Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: He has a grocery store. Is it permissible for him to sell tobacco if he does not smoke it?
Answer:
It is not permissible. It is forbidden to smoke it, forbidden to sell it, and forbidden to buy it. It is a corrupt thing among the corrupt things, and it is harmful. It has no benefit whatsoever, except its effect on the human stomach. If you light a fire in a large room, does the room not become black? The human stomach is narrower than the room, so what will its blackness be, may Allah protect us from it? Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 103 من 108/شرح كتاب إغاثة اللهفان في مصائد الشيطان/أبطل الباطل/صالح الفوزان/العقيدة/كبار العلماء — youtube.com (1:02:32)
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