RELIGION & DRUGS PDF Print E-mail

The holy Qur’an is abundantly supplied with references to Islam’s psychological and ethical teachings and the latter’s role in protecting the individual and society. Through this campaign and since adopting approaches such as choosing the right espouse, premature marriage, forbidding sinful acts, equality in dealing with sons and daughters, caring for elder people and similar good deeds, it was apparently demonstrated how the daily schedule of the Muslim individual safeguards him/her from neurological disturbances and psychological diseases.

The campaign tackles the influence of the Islamic daily schedule and how such plan of action would ward off the Muslim from any infliction of psychological disease since it underscores the early waking and performing prayers in the mosque on time. In addition, such plan of daily action does focus upon the role the ethical teachings of Islam playing in combating socio-psychological problems.

Smoking

Religious scholars consider smoking a health destroying behavior. It is a bad habit the Muslim should avoid. In this regard, the holy Qur’an says:
“And spend in the cause of ALLAH, and cast not yourselves into perdition with your own hands, and do good; surely ALLAH loveth those who do good”, verse 195, Surat Al-Baquara.

Alcoholism & Drug Addiction

Among the religiously impermissible deeds in Islam is alcoholism. In the inception of Islam, liquor had been religiously permissible and widely spread at that time. Prohibition of alcoholic beverages had been gradually come till religious forbidding of drinking, producing or trading, alongside with all and every medications which have the same effect on one’s perception or balance, had revealed.

All strict measures have to be adopted in order to combat the dissemination of alcoholic beverages and drugs all over Islamic countries for the sake of averting the Muslim individual from their spiral vicious impacts. In the same vein, the holy Qur’an says:
O ye who believe! Intoxicants and gambling, (dedication of) stones, and (divination by) arrows, are an abomination, of Satan's handwork: eschew such (abomination), that ye may prosper. ”, verse 90, Surat Al-Ma’eda

Islam’s Stance towards Drug Addiction

Scholars assent upon the religious impermissibility of all kinds of drugs, deeming drug abuse among the greatest sins whose perpetrators shall be punished in the mundane world as well as in the afterlife.
To sum up, religious scholars depend upon the following evidence when issuing their fatwa of prohibiting drugs.

First Evidence:

In the holy Qur’an, ALLAH says
Those who follow the Messenger, the Prophet, the Ummi whom they find mentioned in the Torah and the Gospel which are with them. He enjoins on them good and forbids them evil and makes lawful for them the good things and forbids them the bad things.”, verse 157, Surat Al-Aa’raf.

Every good deed is permissible. All bad things are impermissible. Since all kinds of drugs are deemed bad things, the most notorious, forbidding the use of drugs can be drawn from the above-mentioned verse.

Second Evidence:

The Qur’anic verses 90 & 91, Surat Al-Ma’eda:
O ye who believe! Intoxicants and gambling, (dedication of) stones, and (divination by) arrows, are an abomination, of Satan's handwork: eschew such (abomination), that ye may prosper. Satan seeketh only to cast among you enmity and hatred by means of strong drink and games of chance, and to turn you from remembrance of Allah and from (His) worship. Will ye then have done?

Third Evidence:

In his sayings and doings, Abu-Dawood narrated that Prophet Mohammad, Peace be upon Him, says: “What more intoxicate, the few deemed religiously impermissible”. And Prophet, Peace be upon Him, says: “All intoxicants are alcohol and forbidden. And this who died drinking intoxicants becomes addicted to it and never drinks it in the afterlife.”

Fourth Evidence:

The fourth evidence incorporates in what Bin-Omar, God bless them, narrated about Umm Salama, God bless her, who says: “ALLAH’s Messenger, Peace be upon Him, forbids all and every intoxicant and lethargy”.
Drugs are either intoxicant or lethargic, often both, thus prohibition revealed. According to all likely possibilities, the aforementioned hadeth forbids drugs, and in turn forbiddance requires religious prohibition.

 
 
 
 
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