Explaining the harms of smoking.
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The Shaykh : I have seen a small booklet recently compiled, may Allah reward its author with good, which mentions strange statistics about how smoking destroys wealth and the person without him realizing it. If he smokes, let us say, how much per pack? Twenty? Sixty? Meaning sixty units a day, and the value...
The student: Seven riyals.
The Shaykh : Seven riyals?! Three and a half riyals. Multiply three and a half riyals by three hundred and sixty days—the year—how much does that come to? Three and a half for one pack, times seven?
The student: The pack is three and a half, he smokes two, two is seven riyals.
The Shaykh : Okay, seven riyals. It does not contradict, brothers. We now hope that Allah will guide our brothers in this research. Okay, seven riyals, multiply it by three hundred and sixty.
The student: Two thousand and five hundred.
The Shaykh : Okay, seven times one hundred is seven hundred, and seven times one hundred is seven hundred, that is one thousand and four hundred, and seven times one hundred is two thousand and five hundred riyals and ten every year. Every year two thousand and seven hundred riyals. Okay, this is a large amount, all without benefit. What harm does it do to the person? He kills himself and he does not know it. These are three harms. What is the fourth harm? Patience, social harm. Socially, ask the people about the smoker if he delays smoking, they quarrel with him, shout at him, and hit the small children. If he says to the boy, "Go get it for me," and the boy says, "I want to go to study," he hits him. Everything is in conflict and discord between him and his family. So, these are its harms, and there are probably many other harms as well. Anyway, I cannot count all its harms. Does this indicate that it is lawful or forbidden? It is forbidden.
The student: Seven riyals.
The Shaykh : Seven riyals?! Three and a half riyals. Multiply three and a half riyals by three hundred and sixty days—the year—how much does that come to? Three and a half for one pack, times seven?
The student: The pack is three and a half, he smokes two, two is seven riyals.
The Shaykh : Okay, seven riyals. It does not contradict, brothers. We now hope that Allah will guide our brothers in this research. Okay, seven riyals, multiply it by three hundred and sixty.
The student: Two thousand and five hundred.
The Shaykh : Okay, seven times one hundred is seven hundred, and seven times one hundred is seven hundred, that is one thousand and four hundred, and seven times one hundred is two thousand and five hundred riyals and ten every year. Every year two thousand and seven hundred riyals. Okay, this is a large amount, all without benefit. What harm does it do to the person? He kills himself and he does not know it. These are three harms. What is the fourth harm? Patience, social harm. Socially, ask the people about the smoker if he delays smoking, they quarrel with him, shout at him, and hit the small children. If he says to the boy, "Go get it for me," and the boy says, "I want to go to study," he hits him. Everything is in conflict and discord between him and his family. So, these are its harms, and there are probably many other harms as well. Anyway, I cannot count all its harms. Does this indicate that it is lawful or forbidden? It is forbidden.