Mehmet Emin Efendi then began to pray for the treatise, wishing that his religious…
On the other hand, he stated that it would be a great good deed if this treatise,…
After praying, he pointed to the fact that tobacco appeared after the year 1010 A.H.,…
Afterwards, he wished his religious brothers to accept this treatise with goodwill…
After all these, Mehmed Emin Efendi also listed the famous scholars who expressed…
Mehmed Emin Efendi started to give information about the content of his treatise…
The last point to be mentioned in the general evaluation of the treatise is about…
In the first chapter titled “Birinci Bâb” the author mentioned and interpreted the…
1. Tobacco is habith (dirty), and tobacco is haram because every habith is haram.…
2. It is wasteful to use tobacco because it is an unnecessary expenditure of money, and it is haram…
3. It is haram to use tobacco because it harms and disturbs humans…
4. Tobacco is haram because it is a part of fire. The author cites verse 4 of Surah an -Nisa as evidence for the haram of fire and stated that smoking tobacco, which burns in fire and becomes part of it, is therefore haram…
5. It is haram to use tobacco because it is considered as a game and…
6. It is haram to use tobacco because it is intoxicating. At first,…
7. It is haram to use tobacco because it delays or prevents the remembrance of Allah (Subhanahu wa ta‘ala) and worship. The author cites verse 9 of Surah al-Munafiqun as evidence for the haram…
8. It is haram to use tobacco because it is one of the bad things that…
9. It is haram to use tobacco because it removes the benefit and legitimacy of miswak. This is because it is the sunnah of the prophets to make the mouth smell clean, whereas tobacco causes the mouth to stink worse than human excrement (najasah),…
10. Tobacco is haram because it is an instrument of torment that will be used on the Day of Judgement. Allah (swt) chastised the people of the Prophet Yunus (Jonah) with smoke (tobacco/duhan…
11. It is haram to use tobacco because it causes arrogance.…
12. It is haram to use tobacco because it is similar to those who are…
13. It is haram to use tobacco because the tobacco tar is habith and if it combines with saliva in the mouth, it will invalidate the prayer. 14. It is haram to use tobacco as it would be reviving and spreading…
15. The use of tobacco causes the mouth, moustache, beard, clothes, and the whole body to smell badly, and it is haram…
16. It is not permissible to use tobacco because tobacco is habith as it was…
17. Tobacco is haram because of its harm to the body. The author cites the fact that most of the people who use tobacco are sick, their chests are full of phlegm, their stomachs are weak, their complexions are yellow, and they stop eating and drinking as evidence for this. In addition, in order to strengthen his claims, the author also refers to Ibn Sînâ’s words(4),…
18. Tobacco is haram because it is one of the things about which scholars disagree. The author cites the hadith, “Whoever commits what is doubtful commits haram”…
19. Even if smoking tobacco is permissible, it is still haram in the way it is smoked. This is because the way of smoking tobacco causes haram…
20. Tobacco was banned by order of the Sultan. The Sultan’s order must be obeyed unless it is contrary to Islamic Law, and the Sultan’s order is not annulled by his death. The author also interprets the stench of smoking tobacco as a violation of the sunnah of the Prophet (pbuh), who wore a good odor even though he himself smelled good. In the second chapter titled “İkinci Bâb” the author states that tobacco has many…
1. By doing bad deeds, the Prophet (pbuh) and the parents are tormented. On…
2. It is wasting wealth by spending it on something useless, that is like…
3. It is not permissible to resemble fools and light-minded persons (safih…
4. The heart becomes hardened and unable to understand the truth.…
5. Hardness of heart will lead to destruction in the hereafter.…
6. Angels and those who do not use tobacco will be tormented.…
7. It makes whole body smell bad.…
8. Allah (swt) will not be contented with a person who uses tobacco because he has committed something that is makruh…
