What is the ruling on chewing gum in Islam, and is it from the deeds of the people of Lut?
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The questioner : Another question: What is the ruling on chewing gum in Islam? They say it is from the deeds of the people of Lut?
The Shaykh : What is it?
The questioner : Chewing gum.
The Shaykh: I do not know what this is?
The questioner : The kind that is eaten.
The Shaykh: The chewing gum.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh: No, this has no connection to the deeds of the people of Lut. There is nothing authentic regarding it. However, first, we forbid men from using this chewing gum. We forbid them because this is of the nature of women. Do you understand up to here?
The questioner : Understood.
The Shaykh: Good. Then we order women not to make their habit the use of this chewing gum, because it distracts from the remembrance of Allah. Perhaps you see on television the elders of the Europeans, whether they are ministers or deputies, and you find one of them sitting while he chews and moves his mouth. A Muslim should not be like that, and a Muslim woman should not be like a disbeliever woman whose work is her chewing gum. Rather, it is obligatory for the Muslim woman that her beard be agitated by the remembrance of Allah (Mighty and Majestic), as came in the authentic hadith from Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him), who said:. So when we see a man or a woman chewing, we know that she does not remember Allah, while the Companions of the Messenger of Allah knew that he was reciting the Qur'an in the secret prayer in which he did not recite aloud, from the agitation of his beard. And in the authentic hadith, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) mentioned that among the best deeds is that the mouth of the believer remains moist from the remembrance of Allah. As for the disbeliever and the disbeliever woman, he uses this chewing gum to keep his mouth moist, not with the remembrance of Allah, but with the chewing of the gum. Another question, what do you have?
The questioner : May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh : What is it?
The questioner : Chewing gum.
The Shaykh: I do not know what this is?
The questioner : The kind that is eaten.
The Shaykh: The chewing gum.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh: No, this has no connection to the deeds of the people of Lut. There is nothing authentic regarding it. However, first, we forbid men from using this chewing gum. We forbid them because this is of the nature of women. Do you understand up to here?
The questioner : Understood.
The Shaykh: Good. Then we order women not to make their habit the use of this chewing gum, because it distracts from the remembrance of Allah. Perhaps you see on television the elders of the Europeans, whether they are ministers or deputies, and you find one of them sitting while he chews and moves his mouth. A Muslim should not be like that, and a Muslim woman should not be like a disbeliever woman whose work is her chewing gum. Rather, it is obligatory for the Muslim woman that her beard be agitated by the remembrance of Allah (Mighty and Majestic), as came in the authentic hadith from Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him), who said:
We used to know the recitation of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) in the Dhuhr and Asr prayers by the agitation of his beard.
كنَّا نعرف قراءة النبي - صلى الله عليه وسلم - في صلاة الظهر والعصر باضطراب لحيتهThe questioner : May Allah reward you with good.
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