The Evidences For the Prohibition of Cigarette Smoking and the Hookah

Question :

I request from Your Eminence an explanation of the ruling on cigarette smoking and the hookah, along with the evidences for that.

Answer:

Smoking is forbidden, as is using the hookah. The evidence for that is in the Words of Allah, Most High:
"O you who believe! Eat not up your property among yourselves unjustly except it be a trade amongst you, by mutual consent. And do not kill yourselves (nor kill one another). Surely, Allah is Most Merciful to you.

And, the Words of Him, Most High:
"and do not throw yourselves into destruction (by not spending your wealth in the Cause of Allah)".

It has also been medically proven that using these things is harmful, and if something is harmful, it is forbidden. Another evidence is the Words of Allah, Most High:
"And give not unto the foolish your property which Allah has made a means of support for you."

So He has forbidden giving our wealth to the foolish people, because they will squander it and waste it, and there is no doubt that using money to buy cigarettes and the hookah is a waste of wealth, and so it is forbidden by the meaning of this Verse and in the Sunnah. It is reported that the Messenger of Allah forbade wasting money, and spending money on these things is a waste of money. And the Prophet ﷺ said:
"Let there be no harming of another person and no diminishing his rights."

Using these things causes harm; and because these things cause a person to become dependent on them, and if he does not find them, he becomes angry and at a loss, and creates problems for himself of which he is not in need.

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