Waleed Basyouni – Is Hookah Halal- Discussing Shisha Vaping and Health in Islam
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The speaker discusses the negative impact of smoking shisha, cigarettes, vaping, and vaping on one's health and body, and advises against smoking shisha, cigarettes, vaping, and vaping. They suggest finding ways to get rid of addictions, such as cutting relationships with people who expose them to it, and finding a way to get rid of addictions by cutting relationships with people who expose them. The speaker also suggests finding ways to get rid of addictions, such as finding ways to get rid of addictions by cutting relationships with people who expose them to it.
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As-salamu alaykum.
We have a question about hookah or argila
or hubbly-bubbly, whatever they call it.
You find this in a lot of like
Arab restaurants and things like this and sometimes
people have it in their homes.
And so what's the Islamic ruling on that?
Shisha or hookah or whatever you call it,
it's also the same, take the same ruling
as smoking, which is something harmful to you,
so it is not allowed for you to
consume or to use.
And it's haram.
And every time you use the shisha, I
want to remember that.
This is something haram, not allowed, and it
is something harmful to you and to those
who are around you even.
Hookah can be five times worse for the
one who's using it versus the one who
smokes cigarettes.
Five times worse when it comes to oral
disease.
It is worse when it comes also to
heart and lung disease.
It has a lot of extra, even harmful
substance, you know, like carbons, the O.C.
It's very high in the body when you
smoke shisha beside the nicotine that it is
also in it, which makes it addictive to
it.
A lot of time, because people use the
same shisha or especially among family and stuff
like that, it can be a reason for
many viruses and bacteria to spread around.
Even when they say it is plastic and
usable and stuff like that in some places,
it's not sanitized.
It's not basically stored in a way that
it is safe.
And most of the time, it's disgusting, actually,
when you think about it.
And if you go behind the scene, you
see how terrible this is.
So all this led us to say comfortably
that this is not allowed and that's haram
and it's not allowed for you to be
to take part of it or to smoke
it or even to support people who are
doing that.
People think that a lot of misconceptions.
They think because it has a flavor, you
know, like it smells good.
It means good.
No, it's not.
Actually, the flavored one is more dangerous because
this flavor is not an actual fruit.
It's not an actual stock.
It's a chemical substance for it to be
infused in the actual tobacco.
These chemicals make you at high risk of
having cancers and, you know, some of these
substances are unknown, never known to when they
manufactured them.
So definitely has a high percentage of lead,
which is cause cancer and many other things.
So the Muslim should care about their deen
and it wastes so much time.
People will stay hours just, you know, smoking
hookahs and they're just having a good time.
And that's something I think it needs to
be.
We should to think about it seriously and
we say, you know, what's enough is enough
to waste my time, waste my health, waste
my money, you know.
And that's why I will advise each and
every one of us to fear Allah first
and foremost.
I know that this is not allowed and
it is, you know, I don't know any
major scholars or any scholars of Ahlul Ilm
will say it is allowed or it is
okay or it is permissible or any effect
of that nature.
There is an agreement among the scholars that
such thing that is haram and is not
allowed and the person will be responsible for
that in front of Allah SWT.
Allah will ask you in the Day of
Judgment about your health, about your body and
it will be such shame in the Day
of Judgment when Allah SWT, when you come
and you wasted your health and your body
and you destroyed this beautiful body that Allah
have given you and consistent that Allah SWT
have given you over a shisha.
So, I mean a lot of people and
I have this argument with many people that
they say well smoking cigarettes is not really
haram.
It's makrooh.
It is it's disliked.
It's not really proven to be 100%
haram.
So what do you say to these people
and they say, okay, so what's the alternative?
Is it really necessary to find an alternative
for these people who have been, let's say,
affected by this habit that is obviously destructive
in so many different ways?
No doubt smoking shisha, cigarettes, vaping, all these
things are addictive especially because of the nicotine
in it.
It's in your system, in your body, that
chemical in your body.
You need to get rid of it and
it's not easy to get rid of it
at once.
So if you become addictive to it seek
help.
There's a professional help.
There is ways you know to do that
and to get rid of it and one
of the way make sure that you cut
the relationship with people who expose you to
it.
It's like alcohol, same thing, you know and
make sure that you also there is a
12 steps program for addictions in general will
help you to get rid of that, you
know type of addiction.
Makrooh, who said it's Makrooh?
Name for me a reliable source of scholar
said it's Makrooh.
Every Muslim council of fiqh said it's haram.
Yes, some scholars in the past Okay, that
was like Makrooh, maybe four hundred years ago.
Yeah, before they discover how harmful cigarettes are.
For God's sake when they sell cigarettes they
put on it a sticker.
It says it will kill you.
It is cancer, you know and show you
the image and the picture of it.
How can Islam will say about something like
this Makrooh?
Does that even make any sense to anyone?
So definitely this is an opinion was maybe
mentioned by some scholars or mentioned actually by
some scholars.
It's outdated.
People now discover that this is not Makrooh
anymore.
Before this is Makrooh because waste of time,
you know money But now no, it is
harmful to you.
It caused death.
Simple.
It caused diseases that can you know very
harmful.
I've been smoking for 20 years and I'm
healthy.
Rules does not apply to you as an
individual.
It's general.
You know and you saying that you don't
know how you're gonna end up.
How the end of your time will may
Allah protect everyone.
But don't don't say stuff like that and
say oh nothing wrong with me because Allah
swt will test you.
So that's that's not that's not an argument.
As for what's the alternative?
I don't know what's alternative alternative, you know
get the lollipop.
Alternative chew gum, you know.
Alternative you know just exercise.
Seek help.
Yes, seek help.
Well, I mean as a habit if you
want to put something in your mouth, you
know make dhikr, you know I don't know
what depends what you know, just find a
way to get rid of it and seek
help and hopefully the biggest thing is ask
Allah swt for help.
Jazakallah khair.