Islam's attitude towards suicide - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki

right okay suicide is haram what about women who commit suicide in times of anarchy to protect their own now okay I think if people have committed I wouldn't encourage I wouldn't even courage obviously people to commit suicide at all even for honor situations like that I wouldn't personally think I think that's all a matter of perspective I understand for but people who do commit suicide you see I in my understanding Islam used

all these strong strong rhetoric as a preventative force so people don't do it once post action and pre action there's two different attitudes pre-action people are the Sharia will be very kind of have this almost like a harsh attitude towards so as to dissuade people and act very no like so it doesn't give them it has to it needs people to always have hope but post action if somebody has committed suicide the the the attitude must be one of

compassion okay and it must be one of understanding and solace and seeking mercy and helping the family and things like this this is what the attitude is pre post so you see this is the thing that people don't understand the wisdom they think the Sharia is always this kind of robotic thing it's not like that it's not like that so you see when people would have fought each other and you have to remember in the time of the Prophet how these fights would have happened and and you know murder and and there were kind of tribes and warrior

tribes and so the verse says anybody who kills another because they were believers by that point most of them anybody who kills a believer he will be forever doomed eternally Harley Dunphy forever in the hell you know in doubting in the fire of hell forever but yeah that's a clear verse of the Quran yet Muslims we don't believe that so that is pre action post action there's a different attitude so there's a lot of this in the Sharia are sometimes so we really ought to kind of

have this this understanding of wisdom that pre action post actions of women or men who have committed suicide I think it I think I do personally I think in the past I've commented on this as well I think it is actually a great philosophical conundrum really and I do agree in some to some extent with Albert Camus that the philosopher the French existentialist where he speaks about it is perhaps one of the greatest conundrums and puzzles of philosophy of and that is suicide and I kind of agree with that but so I think Muslims ought to have a more compassionate and that is

the Islamic ruling in my understanding