Question
Some of the persons who are in I'tikaaf at the Musjid where I attend are heavy smokers. When they go to the toilet, they smoke. In the morning, the Musjid stinks of the foul odour of the cigarettes which these people of I'tikaaf had smoked in the toilet. Please comment on this lamentable state.
Answer
People who smoke and create the terrible, haraam odours you have described, should not be allowed to be in I'tikaaf. The trustees should prohibit them. It is haraam to pollute the Musjid with the filthy odour of cigarette-smoke. Any offensive smell is haraam in the Musjid. For this reason our senior Ulama have prohibited the use of paraffin lamps in a Musjid. Only oil lamps are used in the Musaajid where there is no electricity. These people should shame themselves for the pollution they cause in the Musjid, for the takleef (distress) to other musallis, for chasing the Malaaikah out of the Musjid, and for shamelessly opting for I'tikaaf when they know that they are diseased.
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- The Majlis Vol 22 No 03
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