The Ruling on Hashish and Narcotics Compared to Intoxicants

Question:
May Allah reward you. Your Eminence, the father, the questioner asks: Is hashish and what is similar to it from narcotics considered intoxicants, or is it measured by them? And is it considered at the same level of prohibition as intoxicants?

Answer:
Hashish and narcotics are more evil than intoxicants. Intoxicants only harm the mind. As for narcotics, they harm the body and the mind. They harm the body and the mind. So they are more evil than intoxicants and stronger than intoxicants. May Allah protect us. And their end is destruction. The one who takes them, as you see and as you hear, does not remain alive except like a corpse or like a lump that has only the continuation of life, and there is no benefit in it, rather there is great harm in it, may Allah protect us.
The tragedy is that he does not have patience; he is tested by this thing and does not have patience regarding it, and he wants to obtain it, even at the cost of his honor, even by sacrificing his honor. He wants to obtain this vile substance. This is more severe than intoxicants, and may Allah protect us from it; it is more severe than intoxicants. It is said that hashish is not like intoxicants; it is said to be more severe, more severe than intoxicants. We ask Allah for well-being, because it harms the mind and the body. It causes fatal diseases and exhausts money without any benefit, and one becomes addicted to it. This is severe: one becomes addicted to it. If he wants to repent, it is difficult for him to repent. This vile substance binds him, and may Allah protect us, like smoke—vile smoke—binds a person. There is addiction in it, along with the diseases that are not hidden. So, smoke is called the "deceiver," hashish is called the "narcotic," and intoxicants are called the "intoxicant," and all of them are forbidden. And Allah is the Most Generous to this human being, and He created him in the best form. So how does a person harm his own creation?
And his body and his senses, he harms them, may Allah protect us. But Satan, the devils of humans and jinn, the companions of evil, the sitters of corruption, and the evil advertisements are the ones who promote these things and make minds absent at that time. Minds are absent at that time and overcome at that time. Especially the blind imitation of the company and the sitting, and being deceived by the advertisements. And they say, you will not become extreme. Do not deprive yourself of these things. These are things that give you strength and give you a broad chest and give you relaxation, and be with, with, with your colleagues and relax with them, and so on from the false advertisements. So this is the result, the result of the sitters of evil and the call of misguidance, and also the result of those who blackmail people's money.
So these people who promote these vile substances extort people's money with them. They take his money, they take his mind, and they take his body, and may Allah protect us. What is left for him? I ask Allah for well-being. Think about it: if a person spent this money on good things, such as fruits, good drinks, good food, meat—this is beneficial, this is beneficial, and he is praised for it. He is praised: "Eat and drink, but do not be excessive." But if his money is spent on forbidden things, on intoxicants, on narcotics, on deceptions, then he is a wasteful person who is placed under guardianship. He is placed under guardianship because he is a wasteful person. This is more wasteful than the one who squanders his money in permissible things. Squandering money, even in permissible things, is forbidden: "You do not squander."
Squandering money in permissible things is forbidden, and it is extravagance. So how much more so is it to destroy it in forbidden things? The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade the waste of money. Money is respected, and it is not for you alone. Money is for you, for your relatives, and for the society. So it is for the people's interests. So for you to destroy it in these things, and thereby destroy your body and your mind, is the most extreme wastefulness, and may Allah protect us. Yes.