I am a person who smokes, and I said in my heart that if I smoke a second time, my wife is forbidden to me, and I forgot, then I smoked and remembered that I had said she is forbidden to me.
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The questioner : I am a person who smokes, and I said in my heart: If I smoke a second time, my wife is forbidden to me. I forgot, then I smoked and remembered that I had said: My wife is forbidden to me. What is required of me in this situation? Please advise us. May Allah reward you with all good.
The Shaykh : The answer: As long as you are on this great path of striving to quit smoking, I ask Allah, the Exalted and Sublime, to help you quit it and to grant you sincere determination, steadfastness, and patience until you are successful in achieving what you aspire to.
As for your question about the prohibition you mentioned: If you said it in your heart without uttering it with your tongue, it has no ruling and no effect. But if you said it with your tongue, intending thereby to affirm to yourself your quitting of smoking, then its ruling is the ruling of an oath. If you smoked intentionally while remembering, you owe the expiation for an oath. If you were forgetful, you owe nothing. But do not return to it after that while remembering. If you return to it after that while remembering, the expiation becomes obligatory upon you, meaning the expiation for an oath, which is feeding ten poor people, or clothing them, or freeing a slave. You have a choice among these three. The method of feeding is either to provide them with a lunch or a dinner, or to give them rice accompanied by meat, sufficient for them, the amount being six kilograms for all ten, whether they are in one house or in multiple houses. If you do not find poor people to give that to, then you fast three consecutive days. Yes.
The questioner : May Allah bless you.
This is also a message from the noble listener H from Jordan, who says.
The Shaykh : The answer: As long as you are on this great path of striving to quit smoking, I ask Allah, the Exalted and Sublime, to help you quit it and to grant you sincere determination, steadfastness, and patience until you are successful in achieving what you aspire to.
As for your question about the prohibition you mentioned: If you said it in your heart without uttering it with your tongue, it has no ruling and no effect. But if you said it with your tongue, intending thereby to affirm to yourself your quitting of smoking, then its ruling is the ruling of an oath. If you smoked intentionally while remembering, you owe the expiation for an oath. If you were forgetful, you owe nothing. But do not return to it after that while remembering. If you return to it after that while remembering, the expiation becomes obligatory upon you, meaning the expiation for an oath, which is feeding ten poor people, or clothing them, or freeing a slave. You have a choice among these three. The method of feeding is either to provide them with a lunch or a dinner, or to give them rice accompanied by meat, sufficient for them, the amount being six kilograms for all ten, whether they are in one house or in multiple houses. If you do not find poor people to give that to, then you fast three consecutive days. Yes.
The questioner : May Allah bless you.
This is also a message from the noble listener H from Jordan, who says.