How many salaat prayers? 5,3,2 or Nill/None/Zero.........
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Peace be upon you Simple,
If you had we would not be having this discussion.
How many people have to die before the cigarette smoker "believes strongly" that cigarettes are bad for you?
People can be forced to stop.
So when the Surgeon General says smoking is bad, and when the box itself says it is bad, why do people continue to smoke? Do we have to wait on a more knowledgeable person to come along? Or is it just a problem of programming the subconcious/nafs?..which is what God says is the key to success by the way.
They may continue but their belief changes to a certain extent. Especially here in the UK seeing a picture of the two lungs on a packet of cigarettes, that of a smoker and a non-smoker, it?s dis-heartening, i think the more you see of the effects and what will happen to you has a major effect.
peace
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Peace be upon you Simple,
How many people have to die before the cigarette smoker "believes strongly" that cigarettes are bad for you?
People can be forced to stop.
What does that mean? That sounds like how religious crusades are started. How do you force someone to stop smoking? My Grandfather had one leg cut off from smoking and couldnt stop..he eventually died soon after. SO how do you force someone?
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So when the Surgeon General says smoking is bad, and when the box itself says it is bad, why do people continue to smoke? Do we have to wait on a more knowledgeable person to come along? Or is it just a problem of programming the subconcious/nafs?..which is what God says is the key to success by the way.They may continue but their belief changes to a certain extent.
Well what good are your beliefs if they cause no change in your behavior?
Especially here in the UK seeing a picture of the two lungs on a packet of cigarettes, that of a smoker and a non-smoker, it?s dis-heartening, i think the more you see of the effects and what will happen to you has a major effect.
Is that what they are doing there? Well if so, is it working? Has everyone said "o wow...we never knew this!" and threw away thier cigartettes? While I agree they should do that...and it will HELP, it is not THE answer. Even when people become convinced that smoking(or whatever) is bad, the thoughts and urges still visit them, and this is what makes changing so hard. You must get to the ROOT of those urges and thoughts, and to do so you have to get to the medi-state, the state between awake and sleep, where you can change your behavior effectively.