Yo Brother, that’s not a Cigarette that Cigaweed! Astugfurillah
Salam, why are Muslim youth smoking weed?
Whatever happened to Following the Sunnah, now a days brothers want to be Rasta’s and follow Bob Marley…yes they want to get high on life! Astugfurillah!
Whether it’s because they can’t control there desires or there friend’s, myself, coming from Brooklyn where you probably any kind of weed you want. Astugfurillah, from Blueberry to PurpleHaze, the reality is, its so accessible and it kind of blows me away to still see some brother’s do it.
Even more sadly some of them try to justify it. Example:
Brother A says: Yo salam ak whats good (well I hear the salams always hardly anymore)
Brother B: Yo nothing much, you wanna hit that L?
Brother A: Na man, i stopped doing that
Brother B: But yo its a herb and it comes from the earth, feel me
haha, but seriously that’s the argument muslim brother’s use sometimes and some of them say it helps them focus, which I believe to a certain extent, but at the end of it all, when they get high like a bird in the sky, it’s still intoxicated them, and we aren’t following Snoop Dogg’ s fatwa…
But anyhow back to the matter of hand, weed, the issue over it, I find is real interesting, now of course Marijuana in its natural form isn’t haraam, Right?. The fact people smoke it, is what makes it haraam, because once you take your first pull you are going to start tripping, not only that but I’ve seen a bunch of Muslim brother’s who are really smart Mash’Allah, start smoking weed and it effects their judgement and thought process.
I even saw a brother come to the masjid high!. Yea astugfurillah, I myself when witnessing got heated, my eyes turn red, and I felt like snuffing him, but I can only do so much.
Although Marijuana does have more benefits than cigarettes, because it can be used for medicinal purposes, some scholars say its allowed only for serious conditions, but even then my head has a question mark on top of it. Now the main thing which I wanted to say in regard to this was we need to be there for our people who need help or are going through this bad habit.
Growing up in this society is tough, and unfortunately you will see brothers/sisters slip into these action’s and it’s up to us as a community to look out for them and help them get through.
Remember what the Prophet Muhammad (s) said, “that if we see something wrong, fix it with action, then if not with words, if not words then at least feel it in our heart’s.”
Marijuana can be real bad if one gets addicted to it.
I’ve seen Muslims who lose it, when they can’t get there hands on a dime bag. It’s sad to see it to be normal for some Muslims, and addition to that, sheesha, it’s like all the cultural stuff is so normative in our lifestyle. We never look upon the issue of haraam or halal, it’s like like shatan keeps us high on our desires.
In fact one time I was having a conversation about umrah and hajj and the benefits of it with two Muslim brother’s, and while they were telling me good things about it, they lit up a blunt…weird!
What we need to do is give more dawah in the hood, because of course drugs are so easy to get around here, I’ve see hafiz’s to all kind of Muslim brothers smoke, recently I was talking to a brother at stony brook from the MSA who was giving insights on this issue, he said about “almost 50 percent of Muslim brothers on campus smoke weed”.
To you that maybe a surprise, but its not to me, I find out stuff everyday that i can’t believe, but yea this is the reality, it’s like brothers and sisters are both wearing hijab to cover up there inner selves, when we know, our inner self is much more important than our outer self.
We have to rectify our inner selves, and seek knowledge and hang with the right companions, take that cigaweed out, and that cigarette out, we are suppose to be the difference makers in this life, it’s time we use our intelligence and talents for positive purposes Inshallah. Ameen!
Rasulullah (Sallallaahu Alayhi Wasallam) said, ‘Every intoxicant and every thing that could make a person weak is prohibited.’ (Mishkaat vol.2)
And I conclude with this. By default, weed is an intoxicant because there is no doubt it influences those who use it to act outside of their consciousness and normal mental state so we can take lessons directly from the hadith stated upon. Ultimately, whatever Allah swt prohibits through the Qur’an and Sunn’ah of our beloved Prophet Muhammad (S) is prohibited for a greater wisdom which we know of currently or will eventually discover.
P.S. – I HATE CIGARETTES JUST AS MUCH AS I HATE ANY OTHER INTOXICANT, INCLUDING PAN , FOR ALL YOU DESI’S THAT CHEW THAT CRAP
To wrap the article up, here is a short video snippet of advice from my man Imam Siraj Wahaj titled – “Youth, Just Say No”