What is the ruling on smoking?
Machine translationRead the Arabic original
Question:
What is the ruling on the one who says that smoking is a matter about which there is no explicit text? Is it forbidden or disliked? Smoking is a matter about which there is no explicit text, and there is no evidence for its prohibition.
Answer:
And what? Smoke. Smoke, yes. We ask this questioner: Is it among the good things or among the bad things? Do you say it is among the good things or among the bad things? You must say it is among the bad things. If it is among the bad things, it is forbidden. Allah the Exalted said:[Al-A'raf 7:157] And smoke is among the bad things. You can never say it is among the good things. If you did, people would refute you; the doctors would refute you. It is not among the good things; it is among the bad things. Yes.
What is the ruling on the one who says that smoking is a matter about which there is no explicit text? Is it forbidden or disliked? Smoking is a matter about which there is no explicit text, and there is no evidence for its prohibition.
Answer:
And what? Smoke. Smoke, yes. We ask this questioner: Is it among the good things or among the bad things? Do you say it is among the good things or among the bad things? You must say it is among the bad things. If it is among the bad things, it is forbidden. Allah the Exalted said:
makes lawful for them the good things and prohibits for them the evil
وَيُحِلُّ لَهُمُ الطَّيِّبَاتِ وَيُحَرِّمُ عَلَيْهِمُ الْخَبَائِثَ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما حكم التدخين؟ #فتاوى الفوزان — youtube.com
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.