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World Cup Joins International Efforts To Fight Smoking
In
his book, “Halal and Haram in Islam,” prominent Muslim scholar,
Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qardawi, said that smoking is haram.
Prof.
Su`aad Abdullah Saleh, head of Jurisprudence Department, Al-Azhar
University said that: "Tobacco is haram because it causes a lot
of harm. Accordingly, working in tobacco companies is haram for it
assists in spreading and producing a haram thing.
Another Muslim scholar, Mufti Ibrahim Desai, said: “It is a
universally accepted that smoking has many serious health and life
hazards amongst which is lung cancer. These hazards affect not only
the smoker himself but those around him as well. Shari`ah has stressed
the importance of being in good health to the extent that the Prophet,
peace and blessings be upon him, even advised Muslims in all ages to
strike a balance in eating and drinking to evade any harmful effects
on the health. He advised having dates, being hot in nature, with
cucumber, as it (cucumber) has a cooling effect.
“It
is clear that cigarettes contain many harmful ingredients, for
example, carbon monoxide, nicotine, tar and benzene vapor.
“Lung
cancer was a very rare disease but the end of this century witnessed a
high rise in its occurrence, primarily in men and thereafter in women.
In the beginning of the sixties, the death rate due to lung cancer
increased highly. Smoking also yields other health hazards besides its
general and specific economic harms.
“Smoking
did not exist in the time of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon
him, but our great religion of Islam has laid down general principles
from which many laws are derived. From these principles, Muslim
scholars have come to the conclusion that smoking is prohibited (Haram).
“In
the Qur’an, we read: “be not cast by your own hands to ruin; and
do good. Lo! Allah loveth the beneficent.” (Al-Baqarah:195). Smoking
causes fatal sicknesses, for example, lung cancer, tuberculosis, etc.
“In
another verse, Almighty Allah says: “And do not kill yourselves.”
(An-Nisaa’: 29). The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, is
reported to have said: “Whomsoever drinks poison, thereby killing
himself, will sip this poison forever in the Hell-Fire.”
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