What is the ruling on trading in tobacco?

Question:
The questioner asks, saying: I am a man who buys and sells tobacco, and almost all of my income comes from tobacco. Is it permissible for me to eat, drink, perform Hajj, give zakah, and do all good deeds? I hope you will clarify for me whether I will receive any reward for the good deeds I have done or not?

Answer:
This comes from a great trial. And your silence regarding tobacco, and other things like tobacco, is part of this trial. So you must be diligent in repenting, and you must quit this trial, and you must ask your Lord for well-being regarding it, and you must take another path in your financial dealings. Allah is the cause of ease. As for tobacco, the known scholars, the people of insight, have ruled it forbidden, and its evil is great. It causes many problems and great harms. It is forbidden, and it is not permissible. Trading in it is not permissible, neither selling nor buying. It is obligatory to be cautious of it, not to seek it, and not to eat from its mixture or its proceeds, as we have obtained in this matter. You should mitigate it through acts of righteousness. If you do not have anything that covers its value, keep with you what you need, and what covers its value, until Allah grants you from His bounty that it becomes permissible. And whatever exceeds that, in terms of the price, from what you earn through tobacco, is to be spent on acts of righteousness to mitigate its evil. It is to be used to help a stranger, to repair public restrooms, and more of these other ways, until you are safe from the path of Allah, if Allah wills. We hope there is no blame regarding what has passed. You will find what came before it. And as for what is established, Allah the Mighty and Majestic says, meaning this falls under the hadith:
This does not constitute deception in selling to people. Deception is by taking, or by concealing. As for tobacco, its sale is open. It is deception, but the deception here is enabling a person to do what harms him, while he thinks it is good and beneficial. You are enabling him to do what harms him, that it does not harm him because you are selling it to him. And perhaps you present yourself as good, and that you do not sell what harms people. So these are among the deceivers from this angle. It is obligatory to be cautious of it, and to repent to Allah for it, and to stay away from it, and to stay away from it, and to respond to the warning of Allah the Exalted.