Is Smoking allowed in Islam? Please give good reasons for your answer.?

Answer 1

No because it harms the lungs and body and can give you cancer. Anything that harms the body like drugs, alcohol, or smoking is haramm(forbidden) in Islam.

Answer 2

Oh, thank God someone is trying to find out if it's allowed or not! I see MANY Muslims smoking, but Islam forbids it. Why? Because it harms the body (lungs) and can/does lead to cancer. Anything that harms your body (which is your "amaanat"-- trustee-- to God) is forbidden; you're obligated to take good care of your body in every way. Please stop smoking if you're Muslim.... Simply for the medical reasons, at least. "Me" and some others have explained the answer very well, so I do hope you'll read their answers.
May God bless you and bring peace upon you (and the rest of us)!

Answer 3

no ,smoking is not allowed is Islam
smoking is almost consider an addiction like drugs
you said you wanna a good reason so i shall give you some as much as i can
everything that hurt your health, body or waste your money is haram ( not allowed)
cuz you hurt yourself and waste your money on something harmful
there is smothing called fatwah and its a declaration revealed by Muslim scholar based on quran and sunnah rules
fatwah adapt according to ppl`s condition and way of life without exceeding the facts or the rules in quran and sunnah
to make it more clear
cigarettes were not exist at the time of prophet Muhammad so how can we know if it OK or not ??
we go back to quran and sunnah as there are some general rules
as Allah order us not to harm our-self and throw our life away
and there is also haddith says that angels don't like what human don't like ( bad smell, bad breathe)
i am only giving you the meaning of it
so according to Quran and sunnah
smoking is haram however sadly some Muslims smoke

Answer 4

The vast majority of scholars consider smoking forbidden
Please read the links for reasons


Is Smoking Permitted? Is it a Munkar?
Answered by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani

In the Reliance, Sh. Nuh translated a fatwa stating that smoking cigarettes is haram because it is like committing suicide on oneself due to the fact that doctors have come out and said that smoking does kill. What about smoking the Hookah (the smoking device found in most Arab countries)? Is there an opinion on that specifically? The Hookah has been around much longer than cigarettes and some classical scholars may have commented on it. I'm trying to understand if there is a difference between cigarettes and the hookah, either by the tobacco that's being used, or how it works. Is it haram, makruh, etc to use such a device?

Walaikum assalaam,

Smoking is differed upon among scholars, and the ruling for hookahs follows that of smoking. The opinion mentioned in the Reliance is also taken by many major Hanafis in our times and in the past. This is certainly the more precautious opinion, and seems to make sense both socially and individually.

HOWEVER, other great scholars still hold that smoking is disliked and not impermissible. While one may not agree with them, their reasoning is has legal grounding and is certainly not baseless. Among such scholars are major Hanafis of India and Pakistan, who say that the actual act of smoking is disliked (makruh tanzihan) unless grave harm is feared from it in one’s specific case. They are well aware of the medical evidence, and take it into consideration in their ruling. I heard this opinion, for example, from Mufti Mahmoud Usmani (Allah preserve him), whose knowledge, wisdom and understanding where eye-opening.

NOW, one may not follow this opinion, but it opens a difference of opinion in the issue, which means that it is no longer obligatory for us as individuals to forbid the evil if one sees someone smoking, though, given one’s belief and the direction religious caution and worldly considerations point, it would be recommended and praiseworthy to advise such smokers to desist, out of nasiha.

May Allah guide us to the best of ways and manners, and grant us the success to follow His Beloved Prophet, for he who is like the beloved is beloved.

Wassalam,
Faraz Rabbani.
http://qa.sunnipath.com/issue_view.asp?HD=1&ID=677&CATE=115&redirect=yes


http://islam.about.com/library/weekly/aa090600a.htm

http://www.islamawareness.net/Smoking/
http://www.alinaam.org.za/library/char/cigar_smok.htm
http://www.inter-islam.org/Prohibitions/smoking.htm

Answer 5

All praise is due to Allah and peace and blessings be upon the beloved Prophet Muhammad. NO. Smoking is haram (unlawful). Islam forbids everything that is harmful, because the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “There should be no harming or reciprocating harm.”

Undoubtedly there are foods and drinks which are beneficial and good, and others which are harmful and bad. Allaah described our Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) in the following terms (interpretation of the meaning):

“he allows them as lawful At Tayyibaat (i.e. all good and lawful as regards things, deeds, beliefs, persons and foods), and prohibits them as unlawful Al Khabaa’ith (i.e. all evil and unlawful as regards things, deeds, beliefs, persons and foods)
Is smoking one of the good and lawful things (al-tayyibaat) or one of the evil and unlawful things (al-khabaa’ith)?

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]

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. Malcolm X said, in so many words, that a cigarette is a cancer stick with fire on one end and a fool on the other.

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. Allah knows best.

Answer 6

I don't know about Islam but Baghdad international airport is the only airport in the world you can smoke inside.

Answer 7

Yes it is I am not a Muslim but lived next to them in BETHLEHEM , Palestine....all these laws they came from close minded old Muslim if you watch t.v all the do is drink tea and smoke

Answer 8

they smoke pure tobacco from a pipe called "shisha" or "nargile"
maybe the women dont walk around with a cigarette in their mouth on the streets, but at home your free to do anything

Answer 9

No but i seen alot of muslims smoking i THINK IT IS PROHIBITED BECAUSE WERE NOT allwod to drink or takle drugs unless for medication lol eid mubrak!! SORRY IM VERY SPECIFIC LOL ! And Fish IT IS A RELIGON !!

Answer 10

well in my opinion I think its not allowed for certain reasons in islamic faith muslims believe that our body is owned by God and we should care of it and not destory it ...