Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Is Shisha Haram

Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi wa Salatu was Salam

ala Sayyidina Muhammad he was early he asked me he he Marina

unburied.

I was once in Egypt at the book fair. That takes place every

January. It's an international book fair. And I've gone with a

few brothers from the UK and

one of the brothers mashallah with a big beard as well. We were

sitting down he was sitting down outside of the US her area and

there's a there's a very famous market down there the Han Khalili

as such, so he was sitting there having a shisha because at that

time I think it was a big

there was a big hype about shisha in in the UK it kind of just

started and everything and people started buying all of these T

shirts every house you went to in the front room they had a shisha

as though it's some kind of adornment or something. Right? I

don't know if you if you remember that time, but all these houses in

the UK had all of these shisha shoved around. So

this person just thought it was quite normal at that time, because

people had this idea at that time that there's no harm in it. It's

just this nice pastime and there's no harm in it. So he's sitting

there having one having a shisha and I just personally I can't bear

the smell of it. It just smells very sweet and sickening,

sickening and just makes you want to vomit. Hamdulillah I feel that

way. But

I remember there were two three other brothers that were young

guys, young guys from Egypt who around

No, no beards as well. And I just asked him I said, You know what,

do the alumni here consider this? I mean, do you guys consider

shisha to be fine? And they said No, It's haram, you know, are the

Mahir say It's haram. And that's the same case with many of their

other minds, Saudi Arabia as well. They consider it haram. Now

they've got their reasons, obviously, whatever those reasons

are. What I want to speak about today is that

you know, the great thing that happened in the UK was that they

had this ban on shisha smoking inside, and thus many of these

shisha cafes had to close down. Now they've got these rooftop

ones, and then they've got these ones, you know, but this can only

be done by companies that have a place outside. So they've got

these outer verandas, or whatever it is, in which they have the

shisha and so on. The thing is that I think what we need to look

at is

what are the harms of this thing? That's what we need to look at, to

to provide a hook them. So number one, I mean, smoking, according to

many of their alumni is haram. According to many alumni

internationally speaking, it's haram. According to many ornament

of the subcontinent, they said it was mcru. Because I think the time

that this fatwa came out many, many years ago, many decades ago,

in fact, at that time, smoking's harms, harms of smoking, were not

very well known. So they just said, it's mcru, it looks bad,

it's got you know, you've got this puff, coming out, look like a

chimney. It smells, it stinks. So they said, It's my crew, but they

didn't know is so harmful to the health. However, as people find

out, it's harms for health, they've got stricter for to us. So

personally speaking, what I generally say about smoking is

that it's haram to start, because you're wasting money, you're wet,

you're getting into something that's addictive, that's

addictive, that you're going to be you know, addicted to a very long

term for a very long time. It's got definite humps,

internationally, it's understood now that it's got hands, right.

And you you're you're basically becoming addicted to something

which is not going to further you in any way. Right, and it's

harmful for you. So it gives you lung disease, and it gives you

could give you cancer and throat disease and etc, etc. And when so

It's haram to start, but those poor people who unfortunately are

stuck with it, and they're trying their best to come out of it then

for them to continue obviously then there's a level of Cara and a

level of reprehensibility there but

I'm not gonna say that's haram because they're now stuck within

it tonight, where they pray to Allah subhanaw taala that Allah

protect us all and Allah helped them to also relieve themselves.

Many have been relieved when it comes to shisha. A lot of people

thought that it's quite harmless because it's colorful. And that's

the nature of things in this world. People package things in

nice colors, adorn them and embellish them and then suddenly

they start looking good. But that's, that's that's the problem.

It's not as good as it is. For example, they say the average pipe

smoking session of around an hour is equivalent to smoking about 200

cigarettes. Allahu Allah. I mean, that's that's a massive claim. But

if there's any truth in that, that's extremely harmful. Many,

you know many of those who've

who've, who've investigated this and who've researched into it,

they found that they're similar. They're similar health risks in

shisha smoking as there is in smoking cigarettes, obviously,

maybe on a slightly different level. But there are the same

kinds of things. For example, respiratory and heart disease, you

know, that can be that's also you can also get that from shisha

smoking, you get the same kind of carbon monoxide is released as

well. There's in infections and viruses such as Opal, such as oral

herpes and tobacco.

tuberculosis, all of this thing, all of these things,

because the tobacco passes through water first, some people think

that, you know, everything gets neutralized. But the problem is

that the same kind of passage, the same kind of carcinogens, and

Nick, nicotine, the carcinogens and nicotine still found in there.

And those are the things that are habit forming and cancer forming.

So heart disease and cancer is a possibility from there as well,

the World Health Organization, right, the W. H. O, they said that

the volume of smoke inhaled in an hour Setia session is estimated to

be equivalent of smoking between 100 to 200 Cigarettes, right. So

there's a lot of these things that you understand, it's definitely

when all of these organizations are saying that it's harmful, then

it's something that the Muslims should should avoid. Because it's

not a good pastime, when you've got all of these harmful effects

of it. There's no benefit in doing these things, if that's what you

know, that's what's going to come out of it.

The other problem with the shisha smoking is that because people

think that it's not harmful, then they smoke for much longer. So all

of this stuff is coming through at the same time, and it's not

getting fully neutralized. So there's, you know, there's all of

this harm in there. So may Allah subhanaw taala, give us the Tofig

to to avoid this. And to find a better past time, that's a lot

more healthier, and that won't

be considered harmful for one's health. Because just like we we

say that things which are harmful to spiritually, things that are

harmful to us physically, are also bad for us. So I think we need to

take that into consideration. And may Allah subhanaw taala give us

the ability to enjoy life in a way that's more harmful than healthy

than in these kinds of ways which are considered unhealthy and that

just may seem cool for people and not really beneficial. Just like

Well, look, we're working with that one and hamdulillah

bla Hola.