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  • Sanctity Of Human Life, Suicide And Smoking

    Posted by Muhammad Ahmed on March 19, 2021 at 12:38 am

    In discussion against suicide it is said that insani nafs has hurmat and cant be killed whether its ur own. It will be put in the moral sins category. Then when one does things which harm his health and will lead him to death eventually. Why are they not considered as moral sins. Like smoking a cigarette.

    Umer replied 1 year, 10 months ago 4 Members · 13 Replies
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  • Sanctity Of Human Life, Suicide And Smoking

    Umer updated 1 year, 10 months ago 4 Members · 13 Replies
  • Umer

    Moderator March 19, 2021 at 5:16 pm

    For answer, please refer to the following videos:

    Please refer to the video below from 45:48 to 49:06

  • Umer

    Moderator March 19, 2021 at 5:17 pm

    Please also refer to the link below from 38:15 to 41:53

    ilm-o-Hikmat 10-07-2016

    • Abdullah AbdulRahman

      Member March 18, 2022 at 5:17 pm

      Like smoking is neither a positive thing nor a neutral but a negative thing, so even if small, like suicide one can also say that by smoking he is doing kufran e naimat (being ungrateful to the blessings of Allah)?

    • Umer

      Moderator March 19, 2022 at 2:51 am

      There is no correlation of smoking with suicide. If consumption of something’s not good for health, one should logically abstain from it, it is not a matter of religion. Smoking is not something that immediately harms a person; just the way we don’t give any fatwas against people consuming red meat abundantly, processed meat, processed food, sugary drinks etc. which are harmful in their respective domains (some less some more) similarly, we ought not give any fatwa here as well.

    • Abdullah AbdulRahman

      Member March 23, 2022 at 11:53 am

      Yes. Totally right, but like the thing with wich smoking is compared, comparison seems not ok. Like that is food, and smoking is not that?

    • Umer

      Moderator March 25, 2022 at 2:56 pm

      I don’t see any problem in comparison.

      One is drinking sugary drinks which are not part of one’s primary meal and other one is smoking a cigarette which is also not part of one’s primary meal. What’s the difference?

    • Muhammad Talha

      Member March 25, 2022 at 4:11 pm

      The main concern is the damage caused to health by smoking, and sometimes the Foods that Umer Sb has mentioned are more detrimental than smoking itself. Both are damaging, one is just more visually comprehensible and resisted while the other is not. So, the comparison stands true.

  • Umer

    Moderator March 19, 2021 at 5:17 pm

    Please also refer to the link below from 5:20 to 7:15

    ilm-o-Hikmat 17-04-2016

  • Umer

    Moderator May 13, 2022 at 11:55 am

  • Abdullah AbdulRahman

    Member May 22, 2022 at 4:39 pm

    So to just boil it down, can cigarette or tobacco, things like that can be said makroh or mubah or morally wrong because it damage the health? And should it be avoided Islamically?

    • Umer

      Moderator May 22, 2022 at 5:02 pm

      Please refer to the video below from 12:49 to 15:44

  • Abdullah AbdulRahman

    Member May 23, 2022 at 10:47 am

    That’s ok, like if it’s harming another person. But if it is to you only turn what’s the Islamic stance?

    Because it’s also a thing of fun like it happens inthe villages people gather and hookah?

    • Umer

      Moderator May 23, 2022 at 3:58 pm

      That depends on the degree of harm, if harm is to a point which tantamounts to consciously acting to lose one’s life or something equivalent, then this would be considered Haram. But for other matters causing some kind of harm to the individual, these have been left to the intellect of the individual. And it is only practical, since deciding lower degree harms can become very subjective at an individual level, therefore, it is only natural to let human intellect decide such matters for themselves at an individual level. This doesn’t fall within domain of religion since no clear ethical trigger is invoked for religion to interfere.

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