The Ruling on Permitting Smoking in a Café
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: I have a place called a café where people drink coffee and tea. Is it permissible for me to allow the customers to smoke in it on the grounds that it increases the number of customers?
The Shaykh:
This claim is invalid, yes.
The presenter:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.
The Shaykh:
So the matter of the forbidden things. And no one denies that it is harmful; that smoking is harmful. No one denies it. There is no benefit, not by thousands, not by a thousand, not one single benefit. It is all pure harm. And whatever is pure harm is forbidden, yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: I have a place called a café where people drink coffee and tea. Is it permissible for me to allow the customers to smoke in it on the grounds that it increases the number of customers?
The Shaykh:
This claim is invalid, yes.
The presenter:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.
The Shaykh:
So the matter of the forbidden things. And no one denies that it is harmful; that smoking is harmful. No one denies it. There is no benefit, not by thousands, not by a thousand, not one single benefit. It is all pure harm. And whatever is pure harm is forbidden, yes.
Source
إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان-27- 03-1441هـ — alfawzan.live (58:36)
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