Is smoking cigarettes Haraam?

Smoking is one of the things which has caused a lot of problems and harm these days and it has spread like wild fire. Perhaps you know that all nations of the world – Muslim and Non Muslim alike – have now started to fight smoking, because they know that it is very harmful. Islam forbids everything that is harmful. Undoubtedly there are foods and drinks which are beneficial and good, and others which are harmful and bad.


Before we discuss this topic in detail, we should know that Allaah the Almighty has divided things in the world into two types, good or permissible (al-tayyibaat, al-halaal) and evil or prohibited(al-khabaa'ith, al-haraam), and there is no third type.


Allah says (interpretation of the meaning) in surat al-A'raaf (7:157):
“And He makes good things halaal for them and bad things haraam.”



Is smoking one of the good and lawful things (al-tayyibaat) or one of the evil and unlawful things (al-khabaa’ith)?


Considering this fact, smoking can either be permissible and good or prohibited and evil.


Thus, we present some of its characteristics and let the person asking the question see himself in which type lies smoking.

Firstly:



There is no disagreement among the physicians and sane people that smoking is harmful for the health of others who inhale the polluted breath of the smoker. It is one of the major causes of lung cancer and other diseases. It is also one of the major causes of death. Medical research has proven the harmful effects of smoking mothers on their children.


The offensive smell caused by smoking is a source of pain to the worshippers of Allah among humans and angels. The angels are offended and suffer from the same things that the human beings suffer from.


Allah said (interpretation of the meaning):


“Those who cause harm to believing men and women without any reason do a great sin.” (Surat al-Ahzaab, 33:58)


“Do not kill yourself. Allah is Merciful unto you.” (Surat al-Nisaa’ 4:29)


In addition, His Prophet SAWS (peace be upon him) said:


“There is no harm or causing of harm (in Islaam).” (Arabic “laa darar wa laa diraar”)

He SAWS (peace be upon him) also said:

“A person will not be able to move on the Day of Judgment until he is asked about … his body as to what he engaged it in.”



Smoking also goes against the saying of the Prophet SAWS:


“Your body has a right on you.”

secondly:



It was narrated that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said:“Allaah forbids you to trade gossip, to ask too many questions and to waste money.”And Allaah forbade wasteful extravagance when He said (interpretation of the meaning):

“and eat and drink but waste not by extravagance, certainly He (Allaah) likes not Al Musrifoon (those who waste by extravagance).“ [al-A’raaf 7:31]



And He described the slaves of the Most Merciful as follows (interpretation of the meaning):


“And those who, when they spend, are neither extravagant nor niggardly, but hold a medium (way) between those (extremes)”[al-Furqaan 25:67]


The whole world now knows that the money spent on smoking is to be considered as money wasted, from which no benefit is gained; indeed, it is money spent on something harmful. If the money which is spent on smoking worldwide were to be collected, it could have saved entire populations who have died of starvation. Is there anyone more foolish that one who holds a dollar bill and sets fire to it? What is the difference between him and the one who smokes? Indeed, the smoker is more foolish, because the folly of the one who burns a dollar bill ends there, whilst the one who smokes burns his money and also harms his body.


The money that is spent on cigarettes is used on buying a harmful thing and is therefore an extravagance. Allah said (interpretation of the meaning):
"… and do not be extravagant wasters. Those who are extravagant are kinsmen of Satan.”(Surat al-Israa’ 17:26-27)


Extravagance (in Islam) means spending on something haraam.


Spending money on cigarettes is a waste of resources as well. The Prophet SAWS (peace be upon him) said:

“A person will not be able to move on the Day of Judgment until he is asked about ….. what he owned as to how he spent it.”


Thirdly:



How many disasters have been caused by smoking, because of cigarette butts which are thrown away and cause fires. Other disasters have been caused in other ways, as when a house was burned down with its occupants inside, when a man lit his cigarette when there was a gas leak.

Fourthly:



How many people are offended by the smell of smokers, especially when you are unfortunate enough to have one of them standing next to you in the mosque. Probably any nasty smell is easier to bear than the smell of the smoker’s mouth when he has just woken up. It is amazing how many women can put up with the smell of their husbands’ mouths! The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) forbade those who had eaten garlic or onions from coming to the mosque so that they would not offend their fellow-worshippers with their smell. The smell of onions and garlic is easier to bear than the smell of the smoker and his mouth.

Considering all that has been presented, it can be clearly seen that smoking is an evil among many others. It is not permissible to indulge in it, or buy and sell it, or even to offer it to others. It is incumbent on a person who is addicted to it that he must make all efforts and get whatever necessary treatment to stop it. If the unbelievers have understood the harm caused by smoking and made laws regarding it, the Muslims should be even more eager to stop it and treat those who are addicted to it.


We ask Allah the Almighty to cure everyone indulging in this evil and help him in giving it up. Allah is the Best Guide to the Right Path.


Sheikh Muhammed Salih Al-Munajjid
Shaykh Sa’d al-Humayd

Jazak Allah Khair for reading

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There is an Islamic section!

Slikbae:
There is an Islamic section!

so?

YES

and btw


Today I was asked to go out, by 20 girls. I was in the women's gym shower.

haha

lexiconkabir:


so?

There's an Islamic section So??....So mind your business ..read and digest the posta,Stop hating on the true religion.

kentro201:


There's an Islamic section So??....So mind your business ..read and digest the posta,Stop hating on the true religion.

I don't understand you, the girl said its Islamic section and i asked her why she said so and you tagged hater of Islam? Islam my religion?

Surat al-A'raaf (7:157): ....and He makes good things halaal for them and bad things haraam.

Knowledge has shown that there is no single benefit of cigarette smoking but there are tens of harmful things that smoking cigarette does.

So, smoking cigarette is harmful and it is haraam!

It can kill smokers prematurely and Allah says "La taktulu anfusakun" i.e do not kill your self.
So, anybody who dies from smoking related illnesses would be counted among those that kill themselves and hell fire will be their reward. Allah knows the best.

1-smokers are liable to die young, suicide, self-destruct or whatever you call is a sin in islam
2- nicotine, marijuana, crack etc alters the state of mind of its consumers, and Islam frowns at getting high under the influence of any mind altering substance
Allahu Alam

What of sniffing of socks, shoes and general dirt

Nice 1 shiek, smoking is an haram

Smokers are liable to die young and still be punished by Allah for intentionally causing harm to themselves .
Smokers una don hear?

Jakallahu khauran

rapistomenka:
What of sniffing of socks, shoes and general dirt

Wait ooo. You mean people dey sniff all those things? How ? Are they sold in the market?

Haram , yet Arabians are known for smoking heavily.

A black African man with an insatiable desire for an Arabian heaven full of wine and virgins

QuietHammer:
A black African man with an insatiable desire for an Arabian heaven full of wine and virgins

Smoker sighted. You are liable to die young. This is not from a religious view

smoking cigarettes is haram

APCsupporter:


Please don't be stupeed. Are we talking about the Arabs or Islam?

Cc: friendchoice

They don't know the difference sir. Only what Pastor says. May be he told them that all Arabs are Muslim. Or only Arabs are Muslim.

APCsupporter:


[s]Please don't be stupeed. Are we talking about the Arabs or Islam?

Cc: friendchoice[/s]

Amukunmeko, hypocrite. since saudi doesn't allow women to drive calling it unislamic, it's haram if your mother, sister or wife drives. one must spoon-feed you before you digest stuffs. Most of you never being to arabian nations before, may be you will kill yourself seeing your imam smoking shisha before leading prayers in the mosque. Nobody cares. Tell me where in the quran or haddith, smoking is prohibited? confused lots.

Do muslims believe in angels too?.... What again do they believe on aside the virgin stories?

I used to have few hausa/fulani friends and they were very religious yet very wayward...

They used to smoke anything.. Ranging from socker-well gas to high drugs such as codeine to other mixtures like that... They never saw it as a bad thing... Coz they used to do these things when the sun is down and according to them.. When the sun is down no matter what u do, its not a sin!..

APCsupporter:


Smoker sighted. You are liable to die young. This is not from a religious view

My man, it's past 4. I hope you've hit your head on the ground this evening.

So post your message in your section! Tired of your solitary confinement?

lexiconkabir:


so?

So post your Islamic threads in your section. Its not hatred when a Christian is beheaded in the north but it is hatred when a Muslim is told to post their thread in "their own" Islamic section. So much for the true religion.

kentro201:


There's an Islamic section So??....So mind your business ..read and digest the posta,Stop hating on the true religion.

airmark:


Amukunmeko, hypocrite. since saudi doesn't allow women to drive calling it unislamic, it's haram if your mother, sister or wife drives. one must spoon-feed you before you digest stuffs. Most of you never being to arabian nations before, may be you will kill yourself seeing your imam smoking shisha before leading prayers in the mosque. Nobody cares. Tell me where in the quran or haddith, smoking is prohibited? confused lots.

See ignorance. The law is the law whether you like it or not and you cannot change anything. Do you even know shisha at all? And what makes smoking shisha Islamic because some Imams smoke shisha?. I assume that you are a christian. Tell me where you were told to go to churches on sunday in the bible and where it was said that homosexuality is a sin. You are the one that is greatly confused bro

Slikbae:
So post your message in your section! Tired of your solitary confinement?

And what section are we?

It got moved later, probably after my comment.

lexiconkabir:


And what section are we?

God has won us not to b responsible for something that will cause harmful to our self and this condemn smoking of cigarette as harram coz it satisfies those criterials that can b harmful.