 an improper application of the hadith of the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and it's a hadith that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam a man came to him and complained about poverty, he was poor, he was looking for a handout so what did the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam do? he could have easily pointed somebody to give him money but he asked and he said do you have anything at home? because he was basically saying I have nothing, he says no, do you have something? he said I have a clay pot, he said bring the clay pot he brought the clay pot, he auctioned it at the masjid who will give me something for this, one dirham, no, two dirham he's teaching him you do have some resources he auctioned it off and he said who has an axe head? somebody said I have it, he said I purchased it now with this two dirham so he's showing him now you can take your resources and now transfer it into an axe head now give me a piece of wood the Prophet Muhammad himself affixed the axe head to the piece of wood gave it to the man, said now go into the mountains and chop wood now that's a very, very profound deep hadith we can use it as a model of how to create self-sufficiency in people work ethic, recognizing the resources that you have unfortunately when people see that and this is where the UK story comes in my friend from the UK said that sometimes when people come to the masjid and ask for financial assistance they'll say go chop some firewood now is that what the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam did? he did it he didn't oversimplify this complex issue he walked the person through a few steps later on when the man came back and he said how are you doing? he said oh I'm financially stable like he was doing very, very, very well so in the same way when we look at addiction we cannot draw certain things from our tradition and then address it in that simple way like the people who said oh just go chop some firewood so if somebody comes to you a friend a family member a community member says I'm dealing with addiction we cannot oversimplify the response and say oh it's haram just stop it or if you were really practicing your Islam it would be able to stop it just make toba just have a spiritual experience tasawwuf is enough or ihsan is enough spiritual just focus on that that's an oversimplification of how our deen actually is