ame said:
Thank you!!!!!
So what is your position refering to drugs, or gay people?? obviously it is not allow but how do muslims act or what do you do about that???
h| ame,
i will detail in this post only about drugs. You said that you know that it is prohibited. So, lets move on to what is the punishment for drug-use and what can be done.
Drugs come under the label of
Khamr since the Prophet Mohammad(peace and blessings be upon him) said:
"Every intoxicant is
Khamr, and every
Khamr is
haram.
" [Book of Drinks, Hadith 4966, sahih Muslim]
And Umar(may Allah be pleased with him) declared from the pulpit of the Prophet(peace and blessings be upon him) that
"Khamr is that which befogs the mind.
" [Vol. 6, Book 60, Hadith 143, sahih Bukhari]
Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi states the following:
Drugs such as marijuana, cocaine, opium, and the like are definitely included in the prohibited category of
khamr. It is well known that the use of such drugs affects the sensory perceptions, making what is near seem distant and what is distant seem near; that their use produces illusions and hallucinations, so that the real seems to disappear and what is imaginary appears to be real; and that taking drugs in general impairs the faculty of reasoning and decision-making. Such drugs are taken as a means of escape from the inner reality of one's feelings and the outer realities of life and religion into the realm of fantasy and imagination.
Added to this psychological fact are the physical effects: bodily lassitude, dullness of the nerves, and decline in overall health. The moral consequences, moral insensitivity, weakening of the will power, and neglect of responsibilities are also well known. Eventually, drug addiction weakens a person and makes him a diseased member of society. Furthermore, drug addiction may result in the destruction of the family or even drive one to a life of crime. Since obtaining drugs involves a great outlay of money, drug addiction may take its toll on the family budget and even it may tempt the drug addict to resort to illegal means to pay for drugs.
Muslim jurists are unanimous on the prohibition of those drugs which were found during their respective times and places. Foremost among them was Sheikh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah, who said: “This solid grass (hashish) is
haram, whether or not it produces intoxication. Sinful people smoke it because they imagine it producing rapture and delight, an effect similar to drunkenness. While wine makes the one who drinks it active and quarrelsome, hashish produces dullness and lethargy; furthermore, smoking it disturbs the mind and temperament, excites sexual desire, and leads to shameless promiscuity, and these are greater evils than those caused by drinking. This perverted habit has spread among the people after the coming of the Tartars.
The hadd (prescribed punishment) for smoking hashish, whether a small or large amount of it, is the same as that for drinking wine, that is, eighty or forty lashes.
He explained the imposition of
hadd for smoking hashish in the following manner
: It is the rule of the Islamic Shari'ah that any prohibited thing which is desired by people, such as wine and illicit sexual relations, is to be punished by imposing
hadd, while the violation of a prohibited thing which is not desired, such as (eating) the flesh of a dead animal, calls for
Ta'zeer (disciplinary/discretionary punishment). Now hashish is something desired and craved for, and it is hard for the addict to renounce it. Accordingly, the application of the texts of the Qur'an and Sunnah to hashish is similar to that of wine.
[Fatawa Ibn Taymiyyah, vol. 4, p. 262 f. Also see his book
, As-Siyasah Ash-Shar'iyyah]
Shiekh Munajjid explains the flogging itself as follows:
With regard to the punishment of the drinker in this world, the punishment is flogging, according to the consensus of the fuqaha’[jurists], because of the report narrated by Muslim (3281) from Anas (may Allaah be pleased with him), who said that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) flogged the one who had drunk wine with palm branches stripped of their leaves and with shoes.
I would like to add to this. It is important to understand that the punishment given acts as an atonement for his/her sin
[Book 17, Hadith #4235 & 4207, Sahih Muslim]. The fact that there
is such a punishment, acts as a deterent as well to keep people away from this abomination. On a personal level, one should advise the concerned person to stop taking drugs ofcourse and if the user can be cured medically, then ofcourse that should be done as well.
There are some more details that i have not posted as I would like to research the finer points some more but i believe this is enough for now. Still researching some points on the punishment of homosexuality and, inshallah, will post the necessary material when i find it OR if someone else does, that would be great.
Hope this material helps.
And Allah knows best.
