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Is Smoking Haram? -Mufti Abu Layth

muftis haraam forbidden sunna sunnat sunan prophetic practice dalil daleel adillah adilla proof koran quraan al-quran

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how important is smoking cigarettes Haram any cuz is it Oh light your cigarette any cigarettes I don't believe I don't believe our islamically Haram but I am opposed to cigarettes i I do condemn them because I because they're just so bad for your health I condemn these kind of things because I think they just they're just a waste of money it's an unnecessary addiction it causes a lot of

0:38

psychological just anxiety and harm and stuff like these and it's a waste of money and it's a waste of health so I am against cigarettes but I don't feel that it has easy to declare something Haram in my understanding the evidence has to be from the Quran and Sunnah and he has to be compelling like has to be that this is something so ugly that God has declared it Haram and I don't believe God has declared it Haram but I feel that he has given human beings freedom but he's given them common sense and

1:17

most have clearly chosen that God says don't worry I've given the maken and then they go no it's crazy human beings huh it kind of makes sense why the Angels asked that question of saying that human beings that they these human beings that you know they don't look so different from the Neanderthals these ones

1:55

[Laughter] Zamani alia said smoking is good broth good Amit yeah I mean I get the fact that it is I suppose smoking for some reason the image of it has a kind of coolness to it it hasn't appeal and if I'm gonna be honest it hasn't appealed the image of it I don't know why but it does it has a kind of I mean I don't smoke as

2:33

in my teens I actually tried to smoke but I could actually forced myself to force myself to smoke just because my friends were smoking and for some reason I just couldn't I hate the taste and it would just make me coffin coffin I couldn't do it I forced myself tried to I tried hard to smoke I just couldn't smoke and so ah so I suppose Allah saved me huh hum BK what is it Zin biggie apne Jeff is chocol Sega's really the hum BK ad caring aka who directed now when life has seen all

3:12

these things that has seen what can we say except that God favored us yet one the ones are a metal right so ok let's take some questions

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2018, November 2). Is Smoking Haram? -Mufti Abu Layth [Video, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/misf11j9rle/
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BibTeX 
@misc{abulayth-miSF11J9RLE,
  author = {Mufti Abu Layth},
  title = {{Is Smoking Haram? -Mufti Abu Layth}},
  year = {2018},
  month = {11},
  date = {2018-11-02},
  howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/misf11j9rle/}},
  url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/misf11j9rle/},
  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
  note = {Auto-transcribed, may contain errors}
}