Questions Tagged With drugs tagged <span class="tag">drugs</span>enTue, 21 Jan 2014 23:27:47 -0500DRUGS & ISLAM AND FORGIVENESS/CORRECTION?<p>I have never been a practicing Muslim, although I was born one. I am 30 now, but when I was 26 I witnessed my father die in front of me from a heart attack...I hated god for subjecting me to that, witnessing my father’s death haunted me for years..I still have nightmares. I was introduced to cocaine shortly after, it worked at first and took away the pain and I have not stopped, it’s ruining me and I’m drifting darker and darker, but I feel a light in the distance a faint light or presence that tells me I’m loved and makes me want to change. lately I’ve realized I can’t live like this, I feel drawn now to Islam more than ever, I never cared about prayers, but now even though I don’t speak Arabic the prayers intrigue me, I feel like god feels my pain, and even though turned my back, he hasn’t. Islamic prayers move me emotionally I feel a stronger connection to it...I feel as if somewhere god is trying to call me back. What is the best way for me to become a good Muslim and learn how to pray..Will god forgive me for being angry, and doing drugs? My father was an alcoholic when he died, he was suffering alot of pain and drank to cope. what can I do to have Allah forgive him? And myself? Any prayers can do for my father and myself in English at his grave?</p>rb198303Tue, 21 Jan 2014 23:27:47 -0500 sister is addicted to drugs and alcohol, i need Islamic guidance please.<p>Asalam alakum ruhtimillah barakatoo, i have a younger sister of 21 years old, we still live with our parents and she is constantly bringing shame to my parents(who are very pious Mashallah). She has gone astray years ago, cocaine and alcohol and drugs.i tried everything, but I keep hiding her condition because i dont want my traditional parents to have a heart attack or grieve any longer, im scared she will grief them so much that they won't be able to handle it. Please tell me what i should do. (telling my parents is out of the question because they think she is clean from before but she has gone back to her old ways, i Cant tell them anything because of their health. Help? </p> <p>Salam </p>aymarchWed, 04 Dec 2013 00:03:47 -0500 help needed.<p>I have had a childhood friend who has been very close to me, we both had feelings for each other but kept everything halal as we just stayed friends and never looked at one another in that way. I still care for the guy, he has gone astray and on the wrong path. He sells drugs, is obsessed to halal money and hurts the people who care about him. He wasn't like this, in a week he suddenly changed and it is affecting me because I have been raised up with him from childhood. Is there anything I can do to get him back on to the right path of islam? I pray for him daily but I really need some advice because I have been depressed for 6 months now over this matter.</p>UnknownUserThu, 11 Jul 2013 07:41:34 -0400 using marijuana permissible in Islam?<p><strong>Salaams, brothers and sisters. Please take the time to read this, I know its a huge post, but please help a brother in need of guidance.</strong></p> <p>I am a 24 year old Muslim from India. I pray my salaah often (not as much as I would like, InshaAllah, I will pray more). I constantly (like 4-5 times an hour) read ayat-ul-kursi or one of the 4 Qul Surahs, or recite Allah-hu-Akbar or Alhamdulillah or Ashadu-an-la-ilaha-illallah-wa-ashadu-anna-muhammadan-abduhu-wa-rasooluhu. I always remember Allah.</p> <p>I want to know whether using marijuana is allowed in Islam, or whether it is makroo, or haraam.</p> <p>I know that most of you out there will say that anything that intoxicates you is outright haraam, but lets take a moment to define "intoxication".</p> <p>In my opinion, intoxication, when speaking from an Islamic standpoint, is a mental state where a person cannot bear witness to the fact that there is no deity worthy of worship except Allah SWT and Muhammad SAW is his messenger. A mental state where a person only wants to act upon his primal instincts without second thought, or concern for consequences and/or liabilities. A state of inebriation where only base desires and instincts are considered. A state of mind where a man cannot speak properly and/or forgets Allah and his messenger, his books, his angels and jinns and the final day of judgement.</p> <p>Now, I have been smoking marijuana for about 6 years. I feel that it has made me a more open-minded person (verily, everything in the Heavens and Earth is sent from Allah since infinite time), I'm not trying to say that marijuana has made me awesome or anything, all I'm saying is that it has opened my mind to new ways of thinking and experiencing or interpreting situations and phenomena in the same way as a work of literature or art would have. It has enabled me to be more empathetic and understanding, its made me a calmer person, less anxious. It's made me more inclined towards studying and understanding things we usually take for granted. It's made me more able to appreciate art in all its forms, to understand the mood and mental state of the artist. I understand the math behind art and the math behind science, at least how much we have defined as "science". It's enabled me to explore parts of my mind that I would not venture into because something else would distract me. It's enhanced my focus in this way. I feel lighter and less worried, I'm able to let go of things I usually hold on to like grudges and enmities. I'm able to come to terms with traumatic instances in my childhood, like being picked on at school, or being talked down to by teachers, or being insulted and ragged. (These are all verifiable changes I've noticed in myself since before and after taking marijuana, of course, I could be wrong and it could be because of something else entirely.).</p> <p>I'm not an atheist and I believe that science is only what we have been able to define so far. Many theories and concepts in science, physics, astro-physics, etc. exist only as hypothesis, hanging on very weak experiments (whose results may have been mis-read or mis-interpreted), and only exist because they cannot be disproved by any yet known method of scientific exploration. Much in the same way that many of Einstein's theories are being proved wrong now.</p> <p>There are many questions I have that are unanswered. Like, Allah puts everything in people's paths. Marijuana was put before me by Allah SWT, but I want to know whether it was some kind of a test, like whether I would take it, or whether it was given to me as some kind of answer to my anxiety, or my questions about life. I don't know, I'm very lost and confused right now, I hope I'm not committing a sin by asking these questions. Verily, Allah knows my intentions are pure and for knowledge only.</p> <p>The reason I'm feeling so lost and confused is because, on some level deep down, I feel that taking marijuana is bad. I don't know if its because the Governments of the world have deemed it "illegal" or whether its because we've been told all our lives that things like this are "wrong" or whether its because I'm programmed in such a way as to feel guilty for being associated with it.</p> <p>Brothers and sisters, please answer my questions. You'd really be helping me out.</p>HamzaCMon, 08 Apr 2013 03:41:12 -0400