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BORHANY: Use of tobacco in Islam - 2  

Jump to full article: Yemen Times (ye), 2007-09-03
Author: Dr. Qazi Shaikh Abbas Borhany qazishkborhany@hotmail.com For Yemen Times

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Those who do not consider smoking as a sin, are in fact people of less understanding, because if one persists in a minor sin, then the minor sin transforms itself into a major sin. Smokers are parallel to the inhabitants of the Jahannam, who eat harmful dirty plants: No food will be there for them but a poisonous plant, which will neither nourish them nor remove their hunger. Rasulullah (S) says:

“There are five grounds for converting a minor sin into a major sin . . .

Government must frame such an effective law that cigarette manufacturing Companies should find it extremely hard to carry on their business and the import of foreign cigarettes should be altogether banned. An effective campaign should be launched against the use of Tobacco.

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