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In
the light of above verses, it is very much clear
that no one should give opinion in such matters
which are not categorically defined by ALLAH
or HIS Rasool (S.A.W.S). But unfortunately over
a period of time, various Muftis over looked
these Ayahs for reasons best known to them and
ALLAH!
There
are many verses in Holy Qur’an showing
us how people put all sort of questions to the
Prophet (P.B.U.H) and how the answers came from
ALLAH Himself. It was the system of the Prophets
not to give their own opinion/judgment and wait
for the Divine Writ. Please refer first part
of these verses: Chapter 4: Verse 127, 177,
Chapter 2: Verses 189, 215, 217, 219, 220, 222
and 5/4, 7/187, 8/1, 20/105, 79/42 etc.
Let
me also quote here one Hadees, which is from
Ad-Darqutni on the authority of Abu Thaulba:
“ALLAH has imposed
certain moral obligation, do not abrogate
these. HE has made ‘Haraam’ certain
things, do not indulge in these. HE had laid
down certain limits, do not transgress these.
HE is silent on certain matters, do not knowingly
argue/opine over these.” See
the underlined text, how clear it is! So when
ALLAH and HIS Rasool (S.A.W.S) have not categorically
defined anything about a particular matter,
no one should provide his opinion about such
things in public. One should put his own efforts
and use his common sense and act on it according
to his own findings. And should not give opinion
to others. But alas numbers of Muftis are
doing exactly the opposite of this since so
many centuries, by their illogical and absurd
‘fatwas’ on number of such vital
issues!
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Let
me mention the whole story behind tobacco being declared
‘Haraam’ by the grand Mufti of Saudia.
Since few decades, Sheikh Abdulaziz Bin Baaz was the
grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, he expired a couple of
years back. Mufti Abdulaziz Bin Baaz had lost his
eyesight at a very early age due to severe eye infection
that started when he was 16 years old. He lost his
vision completely at the tender age of 20 years. Although
he memorized the Holy Qur’an when he was 14
years old. Due to his blindness, he was to a great
extent dependent on what others told him in visualizing
and perceiving the day-to-day worldly affairs. Being
Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, he used to deliver sermons
and issue Fatwas, which were revered and followed
by his followers and the government also.
His
logic about declaring tobacco as ‘Haraam’
is also quite illogical and narrowly defined. It even
does not define clearly whether it’s consumption,
production, cultivation, processing, transport, trade,
agency, all are Haraam or only it’s usage? The
grand Mufti’s basis for his fatwa was a part
of verse 195 of chapter 2 which reads: “…..
and let not your own hands throw you into destruction/do
not expose yourselves to ruin by your own hands….”
and issued the fatwa that since suicide is “Haraam
so is Tobacco”. He is perfectly all right in
saying that suicide is Haraam. But as some of his
followers informed him that cancer is a deadly decease
and it’s root cause is tobacco. And so by this
corollary he assumed that anybody who consumes tobacco
in any form and quantity is trying to make suicide!
So about 2 decades back, he gave the fatwa that tobacco
consumption is ‘Haraam’ because it creates
cancer. Now this trend made so much room for other
Muftis to declare its trade, cultivation, transport,
brokerage, medicinal use etc as Haraam for thousand
times. But alas no one cares for these fatwas!
Now
remains the question about Haraam of intoxicants.
Does tobacco, together with wine, drugs and other
addictive stuff falls in this category? Let me mention
here the reference of the verse making intoxicants
‘Haraam’. It is chapter 5 verse 90:
"O
you who have attained to faith, intoxicants (‘Khamr’)
and games of chance, and idolatry practices, and
the divining of the future are but a loathsome evil
of Shaitan’s doings: shun it, then, so that
you might attain to a happy state."
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