The Ruling on Smoking Shisha
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Question:
Many young people, may Allah guide them, have abandoned smoking cigarettes, but they have turned to the shisha (water pipe). Is there any guiding word for people like them?
Answer:
Yes, yes. All forms of smoking are forbidden, whether by cigarette, by shisha, or by any other means. All types of smoking derivatives are forbidden; they are all evil. Their harm is great, and their evil is great. It is not permissible to trade in them, nor to call people to them, nor to promote them. It is all deception, and their harm is great. So much so that many major countries have recognized this, even though they do not harm themselves, and they used to write warnings protecting people from it by stating that it is harmful.
The point is that scholars have written many papers on this matter, detailing its numerous vile harms. Therefore, it is obligatory for a person to abandon it in all its forms and derivatives, and to guard against it. He should not be among those who sell it, but rather he should guard against it with the utmost caution. There is no selling, no trading, and no use of it, whether in terms of drinking, in terms of evil, or in any other aspect.
Allah the Exalted and Sublime says: "They ask you about what is not..."[Al-Ma'idah 5:4] I ask you by Allah, is it among the good things? And Allah the Exalted and Sublime says regarding the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): [Al-A'raf 7:157] The good things, according to the scholars, are the nourishing and beneficial things without harm. These are the good things. Smoke does not nourish; rather, it harms.
Many young people, may Allah guide them, have abandoned smoking cigarettes, but they have turned to the shisha (water pipe). Is there any guiding word for people like them?
Answer:
Yes, yes. All forms of smoking are forbidden, whether by cigarette, by shisha, or by any other means. All types of smoking derivatives are forbidden; they are all evil. Their harm is great, and their evil is great. It is not permissible to trade in them, nor to call people to them, nor to promote them. It is all deception, and their harm is great. So much so that many major countries have recognized this, even though they do not harm themselves, and they used to write warnings protecting people from it by stating that it is harmful.
The point is that scholars have written many papers on this matter, detailing its numerous vile harms. Therefore, it is obligatory for a person to abandon it in all its forms and derivatives, and to guard against it. He should not be among those who sell it, but rather he should guard against it with the utmost caution. There is no selling, no trading, and no use of it, whether in terms of drinking, in terms of evil, or in any other aspect.
Allah the Exalted and Sublime says: "They ask you about what is not..."
for them. Say, "Lawful for you are [all] good foods
لَهُمْ قُلْ أُحِلَّ لَكُمُ الطَّيِّبَاتُmakes lawful for them the good things and prohibits for them the evil
وَيُحِلُّ لَهُمُ الطَّيِّبَاتِ وَيُحَرِّمُ عَلَيْهِمُ الْخَبَائِثَ
Source
قناة «فضيلة الشيخ ابن باز Alsheikh Binbaz»، حكم شرب الشيشة - بن باز - مشروع كبار العلماء — youtube.com
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