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We have a question about vaping and it
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has been really something that has spread like
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fire literally.
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So what is the Islamic view on vaping?
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The last few years, the number of people
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who are using vaping surged in a way,
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it's like like a pandemic.
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It is scary, especially among youth.
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There is about 10 percent of those who
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are middle school or maybe middle school.
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Yeah.
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And 25 percent of those who are in
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high school are vaping.
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So there is a big, huge percentage of
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culture across different people, different religion, different backgrounds,
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you know.
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And a lot of people see e-cigarettes
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and something that is not harmful, you know,
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an alternative to smoking, a safer alternative to
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smoking.
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The reality is it's not actually.
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And a lot of people think it is
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a safer choice or a safe choice for
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them.
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Also, it is a lot of young people
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use it because you can't trace it.
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The smoke.
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So parents wouldn't know that their kids are
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vaping.
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But if you look at vaping, you take
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the same ruling of smoking cigarettes and both
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are harmful.
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That's why both are haram and not allowed.
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So vaping, let me make this crystal clear.
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Vaping is haram.
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Every time you vape, you're committing a sin.
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Every time you inhale, exhale, you're just making
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you put yourself in a position where disobeying
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Allah.
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And not only that, this is one of
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the sin that you do openly.
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It's not like a hidden sin.
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And that's make it worse.
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Not only that, that when you it is
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something addictive.
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Vaping has a higher percentage of nicotine than
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the regular cigarette, which make it more addictive.
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Also, it has 30 substance, the 30 different
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elements of substances inside substance inside.
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I didn't do the research on it.
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Yeah.
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So and many of these substance are unknown.
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And so many times also the mix with
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them some kind of marijuana drug laced with
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that.
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So they infuse it with that to make
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people even more addictive to it, more relaxing.
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And so they like it in many of
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these substances.
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They are unknown.
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They have led.
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They have like there are so many studies
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showing how today with just a simple research,
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you will find that this is a fact
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and anything in Islam is harmful.
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It's haram.
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No doubt.
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So this is the rule.
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Anything that is harmful.
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Yeah, it is cause a life threat for
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you.
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It is haram and is not allowed.
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That's why there is no different opinions among
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the council of fiqh in the Muslim world
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today that cigarettes are haram.
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So if vaping is the same concept and
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worse, so also it is haram.
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And that's why I would like to be
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my young brothers to be very careful about
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vaping.
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Don't take it lightly.
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It's just not blowing air.
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It's not just e-cigarettes.
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It's like not an it's not a it's
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not a cool thing.
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It is haram thing.
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It is harmful thing.
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You know, and parents be careful of that
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as well.
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You know, talk to your kids.
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Al-fuqaha yaquloun al-dafi' ashal min al
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-rafi' Al-fuqaha which is a common sense
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rule, which is Which means to to prevent
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something from happening is easier from dealing with
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it after it had happened.
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What do we say?
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We say an ounce of prevention.
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Prevention is better than a pound of cure.
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Sure.
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OK, so that's the point.
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Talk to your children about it.
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Make sure that you you tell them about
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how dangerous it is.
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A lot of programs online for those who
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are involved in vaping to help them to
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quit.
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May Allah protect us and our children, all
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communities from such an evil thing.
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And one more thing before I forgot, vaping
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also in many states, it is basically or
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I would assume across the board, it is
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forbidden for or it is illegal to have
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nicotine, you know, when you're underage.
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It's like cigarettes, buying a cigarette.
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So you know what?
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I'm not allowed to sell it to underage.
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Yeah, under 18 or to have a possession
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of it.
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So many kids in schools and will be
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caught having nicotine with them.
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It's a it's a misdemeanor.
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So they can go they will go to
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court and it can be in their record
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and it calls for them to be, you
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know, in bigger trouble.
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Many of these vaping shops also sell marijuana,
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sell other drugs.
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So your kids became exposed to so many
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other things, like a gateway for a lot
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of haram that and more serious problems that
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they can get themselves into it with law
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and with their health and also a gateway
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to a bigger problems that they can be
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involved.
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But why do you think youngsters resort to
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things like this?
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I mean, this is they think it's cool.
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They think it is, you know, there is
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a lot of like it's a big industrial
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issue.
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We just heard like this lobby vaping.
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There is they have a lobby in DC
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to make sure that still alive to different
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flavor.
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You know, it just they mislead people.
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You know, cigarettes at one point, at one
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point, cigarettes were there were doctors coming out
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and telling people, you know, it's OK.
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It's a cool thing.
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It is can be, you know, even I'm
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not sure, but if some even said it
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can be healthy, you know, for you to
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smoke sometimes, it's like wine.
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People say it is healthy to have wine
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sometimes, even though doctors will tell you, no,
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it is very unsafe for your liver, for
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your heart and so forth.
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So there is a lot of people don't
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fear Allah only after profit and marketing and
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peer pressure and, you know, seeing other people
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that it is cool to do.
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And, you know, hold on to your Dean.
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Remember, it's haram.
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And if you want to quit, just ask
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Allah to help you.
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If you want to quit, always engage your
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tongue with the Quran, Subhanallah, Alhamdulillah, Allah Akbar,
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because they don't go together.
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I've never seen anyone smoking and making dhikr,
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Subhanallah, Alhamdulillah, Allah Akbar, they don't go together.
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One of them is going to kick the
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other one.
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It doesn't make it all right.
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If you do dhikr while you're making dhikr,
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don't, Subhanallah, when you start making dhikr, you
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just can't do it.
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So make this as one of the tools
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for you to quit.
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Thank you.
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All right.
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JazakAllah Khair.
