Smoking - Islam's enemy

Muslim Murasu, February 2011

One faces insufferable pungent Beedi smell on entering toilets in Mosques. Difficulties in maintaining sacred premises. Notice board is dangling. Put the beedi, cigarette remains in the dustbin. Users use to go to toilets with a mood of urgency. Smoking smell stirs the stomach. Jaayis, Haraam, Makrooh, these Arabic terminologies will not assuage the cruelty imparted by smoking. Muslims love God, seek to do service for a long term in healthy conditions. Smoking impairs physical well being in all ways. It will cause agonizing lung disease; destruct family finance; increase medical expenditure. Foul smell will be an obstacle for intimacy of hearts. Smoking habit is enemy to Islam. 24 crore Indians smoke. Central Health Ministry preaches to people through 40 TV channels, 11 languages and 100 theaters. Yearly 10 lack deaths can be avoided. Developed western countries prevent lung disease. The habit of high-income group (H.I.G) has imbued low-income group also. Andhra tops the list in India. Tamilnadu comes second. Dr. Anbumani Ramadoss creates enough awareness. Inflation rate per year is 15 percent. Poor people bearing this brunt should not spend even a single rupee on tobacco leaves. Those who are looking for groom should take this seriously. One who approaches his wife with foul mouth is a suppressing beast. This will trample women rights. Wife is vested with the responsibility to bear a child with all patience. She is destined to find intimacy without any adverse countenance. Family members don’t allow expressing revulsion to others. Many religious people have fallen pray to the smoking habit. Heart will not find strength to show guidance. Body is God’s treasure, gift. No one has the right to spoil the organs. Those who smoke brazenly and surreptitiously are equal criminals. Beedi, cigarette, tobacco leaves do not have a place in esteemed Islamic culture. Muslim entrepreneurs can look for other professions. God will bestow His mercy. They should abjure beedi industry. Muslim petty shops need not sell tobacco products. Those who believe in God’s mercy will get committed to this. Products that offer well being will give huge financial strength to business. God will not lay down rules for dwellers of hell; the products that we sell and consume will decide. Tobacco products are not fit for consumption. The fire that will engulf in the graveyard is now showing its signs at the tip of the lips. “Khair Ummath” – best community should not inhale smoking. Jakaath funds can be generously given to the families whose lives are adversely impacted, crippled and diseased owing to beedi business.