The ruling on the expiation for an oath by one who has forbidden himself smoking
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. If a person forbids himself from smoking with the intention of preventing himself from it, because he has been afflicted by it, so he left it for a period, then returned to it, does he owe an expiation for an oath, or is that specific to forbidding what is lawful? Smoking
Answer:
Is it forbidden by any kind of prohibition? If he swears that he will not smoke and then disobeys Allah by doing it, he owes an expiation for the oath and he also sins by the disobedience. So he must repent from the act of disobedience, and he owes the expiation for the oath. If he says, "It is forbidden for me to smoke," and then he smokes, he expiates for his oath, meaning this is in the position of an oath.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. If a person forbids himself from smoking with the intention of preventing himself from it, because he has been afflicted by it, so he left it for a period, then returned to it, does he owe an expiation for an oath, or is that specific to forbidding what is lawful? Smoking
Answer:
Is it forbidden by any kind of prohibition? If he swears that he will not smoke and then disobeys Allah by doing it, he owes an expiation for the oath and he also sins by the disobedience. So he must repent from the act of disobedience, and he owes the expiation for the oath. If he says, "It is forbidden for me to smoke," and then he smokes, he expiates for his oath, meaning this is in the position of an oath.
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