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Smoking, Selling and Trading Cigarettes & Bidis: The Islamic Ruling that Smoking Is Not Merely a Bad Habit — It Is a Matter of Halal and Haram
Published by Institute of Quran and Sunnah (IQS) • Bangalore Campus & Global Online Learning • Athari Fiqh & Sharia Guidance بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيْمِ 📖 Direct Islamic Ruling: Is Smoking Cigarettes & Bidis Haram? Smoking cigarettes, bidis, hookahs, and vapes is strictly Haram (prohibited) according to the consensus of contemporary scholars of Ahlus-Sunnah. Because tobacco inflicts lethal bodily destruction (Quran 4:29), falls under foul harm (Al-Khaba'ith, Quran 7:157), and wastes wealth (Quran 17:27), commercial trade, stocking, purchasing, and selling tobacco products are equally prohibited. 📑 Contents of this Sharia Ruling Beyond a Bad Habit: A Matter of Halal and...
Continue ReadingGold Should Not Become a Barrier to Marriage: An Islamic Reminder
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم Marriage in Islam is meant to be facilitated, not transformed into a financial competition between families. Yet today, as gold prices have risen enormously, many ordinary Muslim families find themselves under tremendous pressure to purchase large quantities of gold for their daughters' marriages. What began in many communities as a gift or cultural practice has gradually become an expectation—and sometimes effectively a demand. This needs to be corrected in light of the Qur’an and authentic Sunnah. Islam Does Not Require the Bride's Family to Provide Gold There is no command in the Qur’an or authentic Sunnah...
Continue ReadingWhen AI Can Think, What Is the Human Being For? | Islam’s Answer
📖 Direct Answer: What Is the Human Being For in the Age of AI? Islam establishes that human worth was never determined by computational speed, market productivity, or economic utility, but by our relationship with our Creator through worship (‘Ibadah) upon Tawhid. While artificial intelligence replicates cognitive labour, only human beings possess conscious moral agency, divine accountability, and the spiritual capacity for righteousness (Taqwa). The machines are getting smarter. But humanity is asking the wrong question. Imagine waking up one morning and discovering that a machine can do your job better than you. It writes better. It calculates faster. It...
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