The Ruling on Smoking and the Exhortation to Advise Smokers with Gentleness and Kindness
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It is not hidden how widespread forbidden smoking is in every place, in the workplace, in the home, and in public places.Question: Is it permissible to sit with them? And if the smoker is in your home or in a public gathering, do you leave him and go out?
As the brother mentioned, smoking is forbidden based on the general evidence for its prohibition. There is no specific text from the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) regarding it, because it did not appear except recently. However, the principles of the Shari'ah are general, and the indication in some texts to its prohibition is decisive in its prohibition. So if a smoker comes next to you and wants to smoke, advise him with gentleness and kindness.
Tell him: My brother! This is forbidden and it is not permissible for you.
In my opinion, if you advise him with gentleness and kindness, he will refrain, as others have tried this and we have also tried it. If he does not stop smoking, it is obligatory for you to leave him, due to the saying of Allah the Exalted: [Al-Nisa: 140] But this is in public places. As for if he is in the workplace and you advised him but he did not stop, then there is no blame on you for remaining; because it is a dire necessity, and you cannot get rid of it.
Can we say: If a market has women displaying their adornment and men smoking, should you not go to the market to fulfill your need? We do not say this.Therefore: The thing that people are compelled to do, which is in public places from which one cannot get rid—even if there is sin in it—there is no sin on them for that. But he must first advise the one committing the sin, perhaps Allah will guide him through his hands.
As the brother mentioned, smoking is forbidden based on the general evidence for its prohibition. There is no specific text from the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) regarding it, because it did not appear except recently. However, the principles of the Shari'ah are general, and the indication in some texts to its prohibition is decisive in its prohibition. So if a smoker comes next to you and wants to smoke, advise him with gentleness and kindness.
Tell him: My brother! This is forbidden and it is not permissible for you.
In my opinion, if you advise him with gentleness and kindness, he will refrain, as others have tried this and we have also tried it. If he does not stop smoking, it is obligatory for you to leave him, due to the saying of Allah the Exalted:
And it has already come down to you in the Book that when you hear the verses of Allah [recited], they are denied [by them] and ridiculed; so do not sit with them until they enter into another conversation. Indeed, you would then be like them
وَقَدْ نَزَّلَ عَلَيْكُمْ فِي الْكِتَابِ أَنْ إِذَا سَمِعْتُمْ آيَاتِ اللَّهِ يُكْفَرُ بِهَا وَيُسْتَهْزَأُ بِهَا فَلا تَقْعُدُوا مَعَهُمْ حَتَّى يَخُوضُوا فِي حَدِيثٍ غَيْرِهِ إِنَّكُمْ إِذاً مِثْلُهُمْCan we say: If a market has women displaying their adornment and men smoking, should you not go to the market to fulfill your need? We do not say this.Therefore: The thing that people are compelled to do, which is in public places from which one cannot get rid—even if there is sin in it—there is no sin on them for that. But he must first advise the one committing the sin, perhaps Allah will guide him through his hands.