Captioning provided by MUHSEN (www.muhsen.org)
Weed, marijuana, ganja, whatever it is that you call it,
it is a type of khamr,
and it is a transgression against Allah.
(harmonious singing)
Anything that clouds the mind,
veils the mind is referred to as khamr.
The word khamr doesn't mean wine or alcohol.
What it means is, it comes from the word yu khamirul aqlak.
It hides over. It glosses over. It veils the mind.
And that's why sisters, the hijab that they wear.
One of its correct names is khimar,
meaning it's something that veils the body,
veils the bosom area, the neck, the hair,
and it drops down from the head down.
Khamr is covering of the intellect, that it inebriates you,
makes you unable to make the same types of judgements
that you would make, had you not been
on that particular drug.
And I know that there will be people who say Brother Yahya,
Sheikh, you know weed, it's not like other drugs.
It's not a stimulant like other drugs,
but I want you to dig a little bit deeper.
Studies out of Sweden and many other places
make direct correlation and links between the consumption
of cannabis, especially in young ages,
in the teens and the prevalence of schizophrenia
later on in the twenties and thirties of a person's life.
There was direct correlation between
the consumption of cannabis
and elements that relate to psychosis
and increasement of schizophrenia in older years.
The chances are that somebody that becomes addicted to
smoking ganja, smoking weed will find it much more difficult
to live without it as they proceed in life.
It becomes like a crutch in life.
And the question that one needs to ask,
well, why does a person take in the first place?
Well, studies will tell us that people consume alcohol,
people consume marijuana, and particularly those two,
to get through pain,
or because they don't know how to deal
with some of the issues that they have in life.
So for them to kind of forget things
and what marijuana does is that
it kind of channels the mind, right?
So if you're thinking about food, it's just about food.
If you're thinking about something else,
you're able to channel it and eliminate the other thoughts.
So if you don't want to think about something
and you smoke it, it puts away those other feelings.
But it does not cure the problem.
And what it does is it causes greater distress
in society and socially.
You need to ask why is it that alcohol
and intoxicants like marijuana are deregulated
now by the government,
recently marijuana and weed deregulated
by Western governments and it is entirely necessary
to kind of allow people to feel sedated,
to feel that everything is going to be okay
when everything around them isn't.
When they're feeling the pain of being in a single,
without a happy relationship,
where they can't find a job that they're comfortable in,
where their education that they paid so much money
to attain in the degree,
didn't give them the dream job
that they always thought that they would have.
When the economy is going south,
when people are blaming them for things that they're not,
when there's racial dissension, when all of these problems,
one of the things that governments want to do
is to settle people down.
So they allow them to consume things
that kind of lullaby them
and put them into a state of vegetated sleep.
And you'll find that a lot of new age people
that'll talk about being woke,
that you woke up and you're beginning to see the world
for as it should be.
Weed is haram, and I want that to be something that's clear
because sometimes you don't always hear that directly.
It is haram because it impacts more than one
of those five things that we said Islam
was sent to protect.
It harms your deen and your relationship with Allah.
Allah would say don't come to pray here
while you are in a state of intoxication,
and then he prohibited intoxication.
When a person smokes weed,
it takes a long time to get out of their system.
And subhanAllah I've seen people
have come into our masjid
in a state of being high with their eyes glazed over.
And I wondered how Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
the wisdom that he had in his instruction
initially to the Sahabah.
Number two, it is something that is harmful to your life,
harmful to your body, harmful to the blatant chemistry
in your mind.
It is harmful and causes brain damage
to different sectors of your brain.
Now that doesn't mean that khamr
does not have good things in it.
Wa' sharruhu akbaru min naf'i
that Allah tells you there are good things in it,
and there is a way of it settling certain pains,
and there is the need for medicinal cannabis,
but it has to be regulated
and used and prescribed accurately.
Allah says it does have good uses,
but it's harm is far greater
than the good that is in it.
It impacts your wealth.
It is something that is a waste of your wealth.
It is something you smoke your life away.
It impacts your relationship with your family,
with the lineage, with the home that you seek to build.
How many times have I had to sit with young Muslims
who have gotten married
and then the sister begins to see her husband
or the husband begins to want
find his young wife that he's known for two or three years
changing because the cannabis,
the psychosis that it results in later on in years
begins to manifest itself.
It is a tragedy that I ask Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
to help you all avoid.
Weed and khamr is a transgression
against Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la's shari'a
and the way and the teaching of our Prophet
Muhammad SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.