 السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته ورحمة الله وبركاته مرحباً على أحقام SOS يتكلم عن مرحب الإسلام وخافة بضع الم bumper لدينا الكثير من المشاركات في الأسفل الأسفل نحن نحظر أننا نحظر هنا في الأسفل ومشاركات التي نحظر هنا في الأسفل مثلما نحظر أن نذهب إلى المدينة نحظر أن نحظر أسفل الأسفل نحظر أن نحظر أسفل ونحظر أسفل one thing that is very very popular within Living in the West is watching films and it's specifically horror movies now me, I'm not a fan of horror films I can't watch them, I can't sleep at night properly but horror films are very very popular amongst the youth and also you know elders as well is this Islamically allowed to actually watch these films what if they have you know a very very detrimental effect on an individual's health on an individual's psychology what is the Islamic verdict on this أعوض بالله السميع العليم من الشيطان الرجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين وصل الله على محمد المؤاله الطيبين الطاهرين well if they cause fear amongst the audience of the viewers whoever is watching and that fear is extremely harmful if there is extreme harm then it's not permissible it's not allowed so we have to look at the cases and scenarios see let's say which film or which movie is harmful which is not sometimes you might watch and you enjoy it instead of feeling that harm of watching these movies but in overall it's better to avoid them psychologically, mentally they will have very bad consequences at the end after let's say a couple years especially if they are let's say under 18 so it's better to avoid watching these movies and films and watch something that is more useful let's say the commentary is about the nature the animal world for example instead of watching these films which at the end of the day you don't get anything out of it except fear I don't think there is much enjoyment in overall from watching these movies and films so it's better to avoid it and watch something useful that gives you knowledge gives you the right entertainment or the useful entertainment instead of the harmful entertainment I mean you both agree that we encourage all our viewers to keep watching it I'm almost seeing TV to get real benefit you know at different shows and programs and Insha'a I'll help you in Akhra as well as in Dunya Shaykh my next question is in regards to drugs now we did discuss before you know the youth have issues and drugs is one of these pressures and one of these issues that the youth deal with why in Islam are drugs prohibited? let me read what the sage حفظ الله mentions with this regard he says the reason for the provision is the perversion of the mind religion and the squandering of wealth in other words if you use drugs you will lose everything your mind yourself sometimes even your family you have to to sell your family to get the means and the money for buying more drugs so it will ruin your life entire life family life everything and of course it will ruin and destroy your Akhra fate as well so you have to think very well before stepping into taking these slices and then the smallest amount of drugs and now the world is crying out from the pains and the consequences of the drugs and we just had recently 6 people died just from the news I heard yesterday in Essex in East London 6 people passed away because of taking some bits of drugs exactly so it's better to avoid it the mind the rule of reason rejects it and clearly the Quran and the Hadith also rejects all types of harmful substances or means in which destroys the insans and the human beings the world and of course the Akhra as well it's really crazy how these are called like drugs for recreational use for pleasure and how addictive they've become when people get addicted to them and I've seen in my area I don't come from a very nice area where you can see them on the road and stuff and you can see their health deteriorating and these people they have no family people have just rejected them and abandoned them you know God forbid if that happens to anyone and not just drugs but I mean there's other bad habits as well which are bad for your health for example smoking is another one what does Ayatollah say to Sistani have to say in regards to smoking and taking up this habit Ayatollah Sistani mentions that for the start as initial take up of smoking let's say for a youth who is 18, 19 and he wants to start smoking he says to start of the smoking is haram is forbidden if he puts a condition if there is a severe harm either let's say long term or short term at the end of the day if this individual feels that if he takes up smoking now he starts smoking he may have to face let's say different illnesses heart disease other lung disease and so forth in this case if such situation might happen to this newly smoker then it's haram for him to start smoking otherwise he says that if there's no harm then labes can or she can start smoking but in overall it's better to avoid it it's harmful especially for our youth who are thinking to start taking up smoking or even shisha for example it's better to avoid it these are at the end of the day waste the time of the youth the time of the individual the money, the wealth and of course believes bad smell you know the bad breath and so forth so it's better to avoid it however with سماعة سيد مرجع he would mention that it is mkruh it is allowed but with karaha so with undesirable act with dislike so it's better not to do and not to take up smoking from the beginning to avoid this حكم which is mkruh which is a lower level of haram so imagine how the hukum is so the recommendation is or the advice is that avoid smoking from the beginning it will shorten your life at the end of the day you want to live longer but by smoking you might have to live even shorter 2-3 years shorter so for your benefit to have longer age it's better to avoid smoking from the beginning and if you can then quit if you're a smoker then quit that's the best advice that you would get شهرا I wanted to ask you a personal question in regards to smoking we know that smoking was a very common practice within the middle east beforehand and we even have some مرجع who famously used to smoke as well now that we are more aware of the scientific research we're more aware of how bad it is for your health do you think in the future the مرجع will make it haram and say no do you know what smoking is totally forbidden it's bad for your health it's a bad habit do you think in the future this will happen you see the علماء and the مرجع they would go back to the principles and the foundations and the قواعد of the حكم الشرعي the Islamic ruling so in there what they find is that only the severe harm makes it haram لا ضرار ولا ضرار so based on this قاعدة they would issue the fatwa so drugs yes there's an instant there's a quick and swift side effect to taking the drugs it's haram but when they got to smoking they say if it reaches that level of harm the severe harm then it becomes haram otherwise as I mentioned otherwise if there's no harm then there's no issue but it's مقروه as I mentioned so in future again I don't think the fatwa would be changing that much because the قاعد the base of the حكم of the fatwa the شرعي fatwa is that if there's a severe harm it's not allowed if there's no harm then there's no issue but with it's not allowed مقروه حسناً شكراً شكراً شكراً المدينة يتطلع بشكل كبير في المدينة في المدينة و هي مدينة لأننا لا نحن بشكل كبير نحن لا نتعلم نحن لا نتعلم بشكل مسلم نحن always you know على الله و المدينة يتطلع now what do you say to the youth who you know maybe أسطخ الله but they you know they commit haram they repent but then they commit haram again then they repent and then they you know they because they have you know weak desires or you know their willpower is quite weak are these people making a mockery of the religion by coming haram and repenting and repenting or are they still included in the mercy of الله سبحانه وتعالى الله سبحانه وتعالى بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قول يا عبادة الذين أسرفوا على أنفسهم لا تقنطوا من رحمة الله إن الله يغفروا الذنوبة جميعا إن هو هو الغفور الرحيم one should not despair and be hopeless from the mercy of الله سبحانه وتعالى the doors of the توبة and repentance are always open always try to go back to Allah do not lose hope in the mercy of الله always repent that's why it is recommended that for the individual to do 100 times استغفار استغفر الله ربي واتوبه in the morning so let's say you finish the فجر صلاة you did تعقبات and then you say 100 times استغفر الله ربي واتوبه and then in the evening let's say صاعت المغرب and أشاء or let's say before you sleep you do another 100 times استغفر الله ربي واتوبه so between the the the dusk you have made you've cleared up and you've wiped up you're you're asking الله سبحانه وتعالى to erase and wipe your sins wiping استغفار so that is the best option it's always and do the استغفار and try to avoid going back so when you do that نعود بلا حرام you try to make the intention and the plan and encourage yourself that I'm not going to do this again and if you do God forbid you do استغفار and توبة the door of توبة is open always for everyone I think it's really important now you know the viewers understand not just the viewers but everyone you know what I mean nobody's perfect and life is full of trials and tribulations and we're not going to pass all of them but the door of repentance as you said the mercy of Allah is always infinite شخص I wanted to ask you in regards to friendships that we have and I asked you previously as well in regards to making jokes and this is very common amongst boys we always joke with our friends and stuff like that is it permissible to actually you know have banterous fun and make jokes with your friends if these jokes tend to be annoying and harming the others the other مؤمنين and it's haram you can't you know I've seen this in some schools for example for colleges that they try to laugh to take somebody to mock someone suppose let's say he's humble he's weak let's say he's one of those who is very quiet isolated from the rest of the students they try to mock him laugh joke you know that is haram that is harming this individual and he can't do anything he's by himself he's alone he's got no friends now we take this opportunity to mock him and make your friends laugh that is haram and it has consequences in دنيا and آخر so it's best to avoid it شخص ما شخص your bed looks amazing today I've got one as well some of our Muslim brothers refrain from keeping the bed now is the issue actually growing a bed keeping a bed or is the issue shaving the bed and if it is shaving the bed is it permissible to shave the bed maybe it's for work purposes sometimes people work in the food industry and you know they can't have hair falling into the food also in the military you know they want their soldiers to have clean shave is this permissible in Islam a group of Persians came from the Persian Empire to meet the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم in Medina and they came with long moustaches and shaped birds so the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم told them that my lord ordered me to keep the bird and to trim or shave the moustache so in this case it is not allowed for a Muslim for a believer to shave his bird even by using the new technologies I don't know by using the trimming machines for example where it's not going to be like shaving you know you're not going to use the sharp razors to blades to shave but it's just the machines but if that machine shows nothing on the face or very small little tiny hair on the face then in this case it is also considered to be shaving so you have to make sure that you don't shave your bird stick with the احكام الله سبحانه وتعالى and سبحانه وتعالى today we see that it became like a fashion that even some of the celebrities and sports players now they they grow up birds yeah at the moment it became like a fashion yeah so we stick with our احكام and شريع الله سبحانه وتعالى and his holy prophets had instructed us to do so okay so we've established you're not allowed to shave your bird okay but how long are we allowed to grow it and how short are we allowed to take the bird there are some guidelines into how short you should have your bird if you want to shorten it and you know how long you should have your bird if you want to grow it longer well it can be identified by the commonly accepted norms so what is customary when both meet each other they can easily see so you would say to him oh you have now long birds for example you have birds so it is part of the normality that when you both meet you see each other's faces you can easily tell that this individual has bird or not so it depends but it has to show in somehow to the minimum requirement that you have grown birds this is the minimum requirement شكرا what do you say to those people who say that Islam is old fashioned Islam needs updating or you know Islam isn't meant to be followed literally everyone follows Islam literally what do we say to people who have these you know accusations towards Islam عران is clear about this and mentioned in a verse that إن دينا عند الله الإسلام الله considers الإسلام only as a true guided and right religion that he chose it is the choice of Allah he chose the final religion by the final prophet of Allah سبحانه وتعالى to be the final religion to be taken by the humanity and of course الله سبحانه وتعالى completed his religion اليوم أكمة لكم دينا so the religion was completed especially by appointing Imam on the Day of Ghadir so Islam is complete means and of a set of rules that takes care of everything from the ones body in terms of what should the one do for example in terms of the social life in terms of political life educational life all aspects of life was mentioned in the Sharia now some in detail some just mentioned in overall that the one should basically adhere to these instructions because they are divine instructions today الحمد لله we can see all the how the man-made laws are falling apart in the world the capitalism the Marxism and communism which fall apart just a few years ago now the capitalism and the credit crunch in 2008 we can see that today's man-made laws are falling apart and they cannot actually solve these issues the solution was in Islam in the حقام of Islam which would give the freedom and which would give the harmony and the tranquility and the peace to all nations not only the Muslim nation to all nations the freedom of human rights and all types of human aspects and rights are there in Islam in complete version in which will fulfill the happiness and felicity of the humankind in this world and hereafter أحسن thank you very much شكرا thank you to all of you for joining us on الحقام SOS if you have a question that you'd like to send into the sheikh you can email us on الحقام SOS at imamusane.tv it should be right at the bottom and inshallah we'll see you السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته