weed? haram?
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Peace
Well the Quran states that intoxicants are to be avoided.
They ask you about intoxicants and gambling. Say In them is great harm, and a benefit for the people; but their harm is greater than their benefit. And they ask you how much they are to give, say The excess. It is thus that God clarifies for you the revelations that you may think. (2219)
O you who believe, intoxicants, and gambling, and sacraments, and fortunes are an affliction used by the devil. You shall avoid him so that you may be successful.The devil only wants to cause strife between you through intoxicants and gambling, and to repel you away from remembering God and from the contact prayer. Will you be deterred? (590-91).
So that leads us to the question, as to whether weed is an intoxicant. Weed is psychoactive as it affects the central nervous system (brain). It does cause memory loss, and I would say a change in perception. Therefore I would consider it an intoxicant, and say it is to be avoided.
But on the same side of the coin, smoking tobacco has more negative health implications than weed, and no one seems to question the haramness of that. Nicotine has been found to be at least as addictive as cocaine.
That being said, I have smoked weed using a pipe shared between many people. It burns like mad going down. I could just imagine the damage it was doing to my lung cells, so frankly it was not worth it. And gross, I can't believe I shared a pipe.
Kukumber
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I've never smoked weed before but i do drink and i consider both to be some form of intoxicants. Though i don't see the verse as forbidding intoxicants. I think the excess is bad.
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im just wondering what some of your opinions on the recreational uses of weed are, in reference to the quran.
As someone who used to smoke a ton of weed every day... Like the Quran says There are benefits and harms, and the harms outweigh the benefits. . Couldn't say it more perfectly than that.
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Some people call it an intoxicant ...some people call it a medicine.
Seems to me that the people running the show seem to have a twisted idea of what medicine is, tho.
I couldn't care less if something is "haram" by their standards or not.That alone was never enough to deem a thing right or wrong.