The ruling on the risk of crossing wadis by car during heavy rain
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: Is the one who throws himself and his car into the wadis during heavy rain considered a suicide who has thrown himself into destruction?
Answer:
Yes, indeed. This is intentional suicide. It requires strength and the belief that he is capable of crossing the water in his car to boast about it. This is forbidden and prohibited. Allah the Exalted said:[Al-Baqarah 2:195] This is not permissible. How many people have risked crossing a wadi, only for the wadi to take them and their car, and no one knows where they are to this day? One man has been missing for a month, and no one knows where he is, until they found the car stuck to the base of a tree and the body torn apart. Yes, this is not permissible.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: Is the one who throws himself and his car into the wadis during heavy rain considered a suicide who has thrown himself into destruction?
Answer:
Yes, indeed. This is intentional suicide. It requires strength and the belief that he is capable of crossing the water in his car to boast about it. This is forbidden and prohibited. Allah the Exalted said:
and do not throw [yourselves] with your [own] hands into destruction [by refraining]
وَلَا تُلْقُوا بِأَيْدِيكُمْ إِلَى التَّهْلُكَةِ
Source
شرح إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان لابن القيم، فصل ومن تلاعبه وكيده : تلاعبه بالثنوية — islamhouse.com (35:03)
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