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Use of tobacco in Islam

Those who do not consider smoking as a sin, are in fact people of less understanding, because if one persists in a minor sin, then the minor sin transforms itself into a major sin. Smokers are parallel to the inhabitants of the Jahannam, who eat harmful dirty plants: No food will be there for them but a poisonous plant, which will neither nourish them nor remove their hunger. Rasulullah (S) says:

"There are five grounds for converting a minor sin into a major sin.

(1) Persistence in committing a minor sin converts it into a major sin.

(2) Minimization of the gravity of a minor sin converts it into a major sin.

(3) Happiness and shamelessness over committing a sin converts a minor sin into a major one.

(4) Boasting of committing a minor sin among the public converts it into a major one.

(5) The committing of a minor sin by the learned converts it into a major".