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The
original word is ‘khamr’, means
“a thing which covers another thing”.
As intoxicants cover the state of mind, that
is why ‘khamr’ is translated as
intoxicants. Now if one has to define which
thing can fall in the category of ‘khamr’,
i.e. intoxicants, there is another verse, which
defines it. It is chapter 4 verse 43: “O
you who have attained to faith, do not attempt
to pray while you are in a state of intoxication
(sukara) unless you know what you are saying…”
One
can translate the original word in any form,
but it is defined there only, that if someone
does not know what he is uttering, it is the
state of ‘sukara’. By consuming
intoxicants, man comes in this state that what
he utters, he does not know. Consuming any thing,
however little in quantity, if it’s large
quantity creates such condition, will also fall
in this category. We observe that consuming
a bottle of Beer or a small peg of Wine does
not put man in this drunkenness situation, but
it’s large quantity does creates such
condition, and that is why its small quantity
will also fall in this category, and so beer
and wine are ‘haraam’. The word
‘sukara’ will also cover all the
narcotics/drugs, small or large in quantity,
used orally or by injections or by smelling.
Lets
us now work out whether any large quantity
of tobacco, if consumed, can put the man in
the condition of ‘drunkenness’
and in a condition that he does not know what
he is uttering? I feel that if one consumes
large quantity of tobacco or if he smokes
heavily without stop, it can create health
problems for him, but not a condition of drunkenness.
So the Muftis who put tobacco in this category
of intoxicants (khamr) does not seems correct
to me.
Saudis have one logic and Shias another, to
declare tobacco as Haraam! Both are mentioned
and discussed above. Now the whole matter
rests only with the reader of this. I may
be wrong in my observations for which I beg
forgiveness from my LORD. I mentioned here
the points, which are not my own but from
Holy Qur’an and authentic Ahadees having
authenticate references also. The reader should
cross-check it. I beg pardon for any rudeness,
but to put the things categorically, one has
to use harsh words. May ALLAH help you, me
and all in finding the ‘Sirate-Mustaqeem’.
Aameen.
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Incidentally,
the current Mufti of Palestine who is the chief of
Hamas force fighting with Israel since last few years
is also nearly blind and confined to a wheel chair.
This respectable Mufti had declared “suicidal
attacks” on even civilians and children of the
enemy as “a pious job” like Jihad. And
that such Jihadis when they kill themselves, blowing
up innocent children, and men and women of all age
and nationality will be treated as (Shaheed), Martyrs
by ALLAH on the basis of such frivolous fatwas
A
Mufti of Saudi says quite opposite of another Mufti
of Palestine. What a sad affair for Muslims the world
over? Now there is another horrifying scene from Afghanistan.
The whole world knows that majority of the narcotics
are prepared from opium, and the biggest opium producing
nation is Afghanistan. It is cultivated and marketed
by these religious bigots (or the war lords) of Afghanistan
to buy weapons for their Jihad. The question we should
ask our selves are, is this not Haraam for them for
their so-called Jihad?
Finally
one more Divine writ from ALLAH, in Holy Qur’an,
chapter 17 verse 36 which says:
"And
pursue not that of which you have no knowledge:
verily, your hearing and sight and heart –
all of them – will be called to account for
it on Judgment Day."
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