Alamikum. You know what is one of the
sad things to see when you're leaving
the masid is somebody smoking a
cigarette, lighting up a cigarette. It's
very disheartening. And I got a little
inspired to make this short little video
cover three important points for someone
to think about next time they're going
to light up a
cigarette. The first thing I want to
start off with is the importance to know
that strength is in the
surrender. When you're
surrendering to the Almighty, this is
where you get that power, that strength.
But when you surrender to your nefs,
this is
weakness. This is total weakness. And
you're being pimped by the Shayan every
time you light up the
cigarette. The first thing
is
that as soon as you light up a
cigarette, you're burning money. You're
throwing money away. Imagine how many
good deeds you could have attained by
taking that money money that you would
have spent on a pack of cigarettes. I
don't know what's a pack of cigarettes
going for nowadays. Five to $10 and you
buying one maybe every day, every other
day. Doesn't matter how much of that
money you just burnt
it. You throw it away. Imagine how much
charity you could have had that money go
towards and you could have racked up so
many good deeds, but instead you keeping
this melik on the left writing the bad
deeds because you're earning the
displeasure of Allah. Second point,
every time you light up a cigarette,
you're putting poison in your
body. You're running towards
cancer. You're running
towards suicide practically. It's like
drinking poison. What do you expect when
you drink poison? To die. So, you're
running towards death
quickly. And we know that this is
something that's definitely haram. It's
harming your body and you're bringing
major harm to your body. Major harm.
Now, somebody might have said 20, 30
years ago is makru. They didn't know.
The science didn't develop. But anybody
that tells you that now is out of their
mind. It's something that's clearly it's
haram. It's something that's prohibited.
Third point is what kind of example in
front of the masid. We know we live in
this beautiful country that you can't
even smoke in a public place, let alone
stand in front of it because they know
smoking a cigarette is not allowed. You
have to be like some what 7 8 10 15 ft
away. You smoking in front of the masid
smoking a cigarette. Young kid comes up
seeing you. What kind of example are you
setting? We know that inviting someone
to something good, you get the good
reward. But imagine you setting some
kind of example like this for the young
kids to see old man, young man smoking a
cigarette. Believe me, you're going to
be accountable for that. You're going to
be accountable for that. So my my advice
until you break this habit, inshallah,
make it easy that you can. If you where
there's a will, there's a way. Until
then, go hide under a rock and smoke
these cigarettes. Don't let nobody see
you doing it. It's bad enough you're
doing it, but then you're going and
setting an example for for some other
young kid. So remember these three
points and it's with love, man. It's
with love. I'm delivering this to you
and inshallah this can reach you and
hopefully you can kick this bad habit.
Connect with with Allah and Allah
anything is possible and find some way
to kick it. Man, you got to get off
this. We need to rise above this. Peace.