{"id":22,"date":"2007-01-13T15:50:56","date_gmt":"2007-01-13T19:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/wasim\/2007\/01\/13\/religious-arguments-against-smoking-inc"},"modified":"2007-09-24T02:16:54","modified_gmt":"2007-09-24T06:16:54","slug":"religious-arguments-against-smoking-including-hookah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/wasim\/2007\/01\/13\/religious-arguments-against-smoking-including-hookah\/","title":{"rendered":"Religious arguments against smoking (including hookah)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Smoking is haram (prohibited), by Shaikh Ibrahim Desai<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.islamonline.net\/servlet\/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar\/FatwaE\/FatwaE&amp;cid=1119503543740\">He writes: <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>God\u00a0says: <strong>\u201cAnd do not kill yourselves.\u201d<\/strong> (An-Nisaa\u2019: 29). The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) is reported to have said: <strong>\u201cWhomsoever drinks poison, thereby killing himself, will sip this poison forever in jahannam.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cigarettes consist of many poisonous substances and furthermore, the smoker indulges in a slow suicidal act by smoking this poison.\u201d<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Also, Shaikh Nuh Ha Mim Keller holds that smoking is <em>haram <\/em>in <u>Reliance of the Traveller<\/u>.\u00a0 This is\u00a0referenced <a href=\"http:\/\/qa.sunnipath.com\/issue_view.asp?HD=1&amp;ID=677&amp;CATE=115&amp;redirect=yes\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/qa.sunnipath.com\/issue_view.asp?HD=1&amp;ID=676&amp;CATE=115&amp;redirect=yes\">here<\/a> on Sunnipath.com<\/p>\n<p>Finally, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.islamfortoday.com\/syed08.htm\">Dr. Ibrahim Syed<\/a>\u00a0makes some excellent arguments against smoking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smoking is haram (prohibited), by Shaikh Ibrahim Desai He writes: God\u00a0says: \u201cAnd do not kill yourselves.\u201d (An-Nisaa\u2019: 29). The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) is reported to have said: \u201cWhomsoever drinks poison, thereby killing himself, will sip this poison forever in jahannam.\u201d Cigarettes consist of many poisonous substances and furthermore, the smoker indulges [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":304,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[604],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beliefs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/wasim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/wasim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/wasim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/wasim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/304"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/wasim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/wasim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/wasim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/wasim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/wasim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}