salaam
My first entry in this blog is dedicated to my current state of mind and body which has almost survived a day without a cigarette craving for it as I type. I have no serious motivation to quit except all that hype of fatal diseases linked to smoking and it being haraam. I think I would find it easier to quit if it is proven to be haraam through a detailed exposition of evidences concerning its prohibition which I have not seen so far.
I think prohibition of smoking is a recent thing, I don’t know why they have done this because smoking has been part of Muslim daily lives for way too long. People smoke a lot in Muslim countries, they even smoke in mosque courtyards and graveyards. I am sure if it was really haraam it would be treated like all other haraam foodstuff but its not. The fatwaas declaring it haraaam are centred around the argument that it’s harmful to ones health but than again so are many other things which the same people eat/drink more than occasionally in one day! To me, that’s not a very good argument because it completely rests on scientific theories concerning its harm.
So is it really haraam or some fatwas have been passed almost in reaction to the whole western anti-smoking campaigns/laws/rules?
