{"id":25018,"date":"2022-04-06T16:31:32","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T16:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/?p=25018"},"modified":"2022-04-06T16:31:32","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T16:31:32","slug":"what-is-the-ruling-on-tobacco-shisha-and-nicotine-tar-free-shisha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/what-is-the-ruling-on-tobacco-shisha-and-nicotine-tar-free-shisha\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is the Ruling on Tobacco Shisha and Nicotine\/Tar Free Shisha?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Fatwa ID: 06019<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Answered by: Maulana Mohammed Dilwar Hussain<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><u>Question:<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">What is the ruling on tobacco shisha and nicotine\/tar free shisha? With the new form of just vapour for the pipe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><u><strong>In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful<\/strong><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><u><strong>Answer:<\/strong><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><em>All\u0101h Ta\u2019\u0101l\u0101 <\/em>commands us to, \u201cSpend in the way of <em>All\u0101h <\/em>and do not throw yourselves into destruction, and do good. Indeed, <em>All\u0101h <\/em>loves those who do good.\u201d [<em>Surah Al-Baqarah<\/em>; 2:195] [1]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Smoking increases your risk of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/conditions\/cancer\/\">cancer<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/conditions\/coronary-heart-disease\/\">heart disease<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/conditions\/shortness-of-breath\/\">respiratory problems<\/a>. This is true whether you smoke cigarettes, bidi (thin cigarettes of tobacco wrapped in brown tendu leaf) or shisha (also known as a water pipe or hookah). Like cigarette smoke, waterpipe smoke contains cancer-causing chemicals and toxic gases such as carbon monoxide.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">A 2016 analysis of several studies suggested that during 1 session on a waterpipe a person can take in up to:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">the same amount of tar as if they had smoked 25 cigarettes<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">the same amount of carbon monoxide as if they had smoked 11 cigarettes<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">the same amount of nicotine as if they had smoked 2 cigarettes [2]<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">These chemicals can make the walls of your arteries sticky, so fatty material can stick to them. If the arteries that carry blood to your heart get damaged and clogged, it can lead to a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bhf.org.uk\/informationsupport\/conditions\/heart-attack\">heart attack<\/a>. If this happens in the arteries that carry blood to your brain it can lead to a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bhf.org.uk\/informationsupport\/conditions\/stroke\">stroke<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">As a result, shisha smokers can be at risk of the same kinds of diseases as cigarette smokers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Pregnant women can also be at risk of the same kinds of heart and circulatory diseases and may want to discuss the risks of smoking shisha or cigarettes during pregnancy with their healthcare provider before smoking.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Even if you use tobacco-free shisha, the smoke still produces harmful levels of toxins which can be either just as bad for you or even more harmful than smoke from tobacco-based shisha. [3]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Tobacco-free shisha like herbal\/fruit shisha is not safe. Tobacco-free shisha still contains tar, high levels of carbon monoxide, and other toxic ingredients. [4]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">The corresponding link provides a detailed comparison between tobacco shishas and tobacco-free ones. [5]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Based on the information above, it seems that both will fall under the same ruling without any differentiation in them due to both having harmful effects on the body. Due to the harm, they both have on the body, smoking Shisha\/Hookah would be deemed <em>Makrooh Tahrimi<\/em> (meaning that it is heavily disliked and very close to being <em>Haraam<\/em>). If done on a regular basis then it would be <em>Haraam<\/em>.\u00a0[<em>Radd ul-Mahtaar<\/em>; volume 10, page 40] [6]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">It should also be clarified that going to Shisha lounges is without doubt <em>Haraam<\/em> as the entire environment there, what it promotes and also the intermingling which occurs therein as well as many other sins, is strictly forbidden.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Only <em>All\u0101h Ta\u2019\u0101l\u0101 <\/em>knows best.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Written by Maulana Mohammed Dilwar Hussain<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Checked and approved by Mufti Mohammed Tosir Miah<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Darul Ifta Birmingham<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">[1] \u0648\u064e\u0623\u064e\u0646\u0641\u0650\u0642\u064f\u0648\u0627\u0652 \u0641\u0650\u064a \u0633\u064e\u0628\u0650\u064a\u0644\u0650 \u0671\u0644\u0644\u0651\u064e\u0647\u0650 \u0648\u064e\u0644\u064e\u0627 \u062a\u064f\u0644\u06e1\u0642\u064f\u0648\u0627\u0652 \u0628\u0650\u0623\u064e\u064a\u06e1\u062f\u0650\u064a\u0643\u064f\u0645\u06e1 \u0625\u0650\u0644\u064e\u0649 \u0671\u0644\u062a\u0651\u064e\u0647\u06e1\u0644\u064f\u0643\u064e\u0629\u0650 \u0648\u064e\u0623\u064e\u062d\u06e1\u0633\u0650\u0646\u064f\u0648\u0653\u0627\u0652\u06da \u0625\u0650\u0646\u0651\u064e \u0671\u0644\u0644\u0651\u064e\u0647\u064e \u064a\u064f\u062d\u0650\u0628\u0651\u064f \u0671\u0644\u06e1\u0645\u064f\u062d\u06e1\u0633\u0650\u0646\u0650\u064a\u0646\u064e {<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">[2] <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/live-well\/quit-smoking\/paan-bidi-and-shisha-risks\/\">https:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/live-well\/quit-smoking\/paan-bidi-and-shisha-risks\/<\/a><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">[3] <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bhf.org.uk\/informationsupport\/risk-factors\/smoking\/shisha\">https:\/\/www.bhf.org.uk\/informationsupport\/risk-factors\/smoking\/shisha<\/a><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">[4] <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.harrow.gov.uk\/health-leisure\/effects-smoking-shisha\">https:\/\/www.harrow.gov.uk\/health-leisure\/effects-smoking-shisha<\/a><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">[5] <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3407543\/\">https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3407543\/<\/a><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; 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