Smoke is among the impurities, and using it harms the self and the religion
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Question:
May Allah reward you with good and do you good. Shaykh Salih also asks, and he says: Is smoking considered slow suicide, or what is its ruling? May Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
Smoking contains dangers and causes serious diseases, as the medical experts from all parts of the world have established. They have all agreed that smoke is harmful to health and that it causes serious diseases. Their reports and writings are known and famous, so there is no room for doubt regarding the prohibition of this foul smoke.
If a person uses it, he becomes the cause of contracting the disease and thus commits a sin for that, even if it does not reach the level of the ruling on suicide or the ruling on killing oneself. However, he becomes the cause of making himself ill and inflicting these diseases upon himself. Allah the Exalted says:[Al-Baqarah 2:195], and He, Glorified and Exalted is He, says in describing the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him): [Al-A'raf 7:157] regarding the evil things. Therefore, it is forbidden, and using what is forbidden involves harming oneself and harming one's religion. Furthermore, smoking involves wasting money without any benefit. How many riyals does this smoker consume?
In buying smoke, and what benefit does it bring him? On the contrary, it brings him many harms. He buys diseases for himself and spends his money on them. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade wasting money and squandering it without benefit. A person is accountable for his money. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said:Jami` at-Tirmidhi 2417Da'if (Darussalam) . This person spends his money on what is forbidden and on harm to himself, so he will be questioned about it on the Day of Resurrection?
May Allah reward you with good and do you good. Shaykh Salih also asks, and he says: Is smoking considered slow suicide, or what is its ruling? May Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
Smoking contains dangers and causes serious diseases, as the medical experts from all parts of the world have established. They have all agreed that smoke is harmful to health and that it causes serious diseases. Their reports and writings are known and famous, so there is no room for doubt regarding the prohibition of this foul smoke.
If a person uses it, he becomes the cause of contracting the disease and thus commits a sin for that, even if it does not reach the level of the ruling on suicide or the ruling on killing oneself. However, he becomes the cause of making himself ill and inflicting these diseases upon himself. Allah the Exalted says:
and do not throw [yourselves] with your [own] hands into destruction [by refraining]
وَلَا تُلْقُوا بِأَيْدِيكُمْ إِلَى التَّهْلُكَةِmakes lawful for them the good things and prohibits for them the evil
وَيُحِلُّ لَهُمُ الطَّيِّبَاتِ وَيُحَرِّمُ عَلَيْهِمُ الْخَبَائِثَIn buying smoke, and what benefit does it bring him? On the contrary, it brings him many harms. He buys diseases for himself and spends his money on them. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade wasting money and squandering it without benefit. A person is accountable for his money. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
Abu Barzah Al-Aslami narrated that the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w) said: "The feet of the slave of Allah shall not move [on the Day of Judgement] until he is asked about five things: about his life and what he did with it, about his knowledge and what he did with it, about his wealth and how he earned it and where he spent it on, about his body and for what did he wear it out." [He said:] This Hadith is Hasan Sahih. Sa'eed bin Abdullah bin Juraij (a narrator in the chain) [is from Al-Basrah], and he is the freed slave of Abu Barzah AlAslami, and Abu Barzah AlAslami's name is Nadlah bin 'Ubaid.
لا تزول قدم عبد يوم القيامة حتى يسأل عن أوهب، عن عمره فيما أفناه، وعن جسمه فيما أبلاه،And about his knowledge in what he acted upon it, and about his money from where he earned it and in what he spent it
وعن علمه ما عمل به، وعن ماله من أين اكتسبه، وفيما أنفقه،
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 4657- الدخان من الخبائث وتعاطيه فيه إضرار بالنفس والدين - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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