All?h ( - عز وجل -) also said: [ يسئلونك ماذا أُحل لهم قل أُحل لكم الطيبات]
‘ They ask you (O Muhammad ( - صلى الله عليه وسلم -)) what is lawful for them (of food). Say: “Lawful unto you are At-Tayyibat (All kinds of good foods which All?h ( - عز وجل -) has made Hal?l)’. (1)
It is well known that smoking is not of the good at all, so, it is prohibited on the whole ‘Ummah’. (2)
Shaikh ‘Abdull?h Ibn Jibrin in his “Tanb?h?t ‘Al? Ba‘d Al-’Akht?’ Allat? Yaf‘aluha Ba‘dul Musallina F? Sal?tihim”, (3) said: ‘Having such bad scented items that cause harm for other people and for angels such as cigarettes and the narghile is worse than having garlic or onions. Indeed, every muslim should attend the mosque applying perfume and free of every bad scented item’.
It is of the bad manners that one comes to the mosque wearing dirty clothes with bad smells coming out of them; such behavior contradicts the purport of the prophet’s had?th which states: ‘All?h ( - عز وجل -) is more entitled that one beautifies one self for’.
In many of his ah?d?th, the prophet ( - صلى الله عليه وسلم -) urged muslims to be pure from dirts , especially on Friday, and to wash themselves so as to maintain good and pure body and clean clothes the thing which echoes with the purity of their hearts.
[3/ 31] A muslim also should not pass wind in the mosque for this causes inconvenience for other muslims and pollutes the air of the mosque. In addition, the prophet ( - صلى الله عليه وسلم -) informed us that the angels send their Sal?t on the one present in the mosque; they say: “O
(1) S?rat Al-M?’idah (verse no. 4).
(2) “Al-Fat?w?” (vol. 1 / p. 82). The eminent Shaikh Ibn B?z also said: ‘ As for limiting the period of abandoning the mosque in such a state to three days is a baseless view’. There is; however, a h?d?th-“in Sah?h Ibn Khuzaimah” (vol. 3 / p. 83) under the title “The period for which the one who ate garlic should abandon the mosque” (no. 663)-narrated by Huthaifah ( - رضي الله عنه -) that the prophet ( - صلى الله عليه وسلم -) said: “whoever eats from this bad scented tree should abandon our mosque, three”. Al-Hafith Ibn Hajar in his “Al-Fath” (vol. 2 / p. 344) commented on this title saying: ‘ Interpreting the word “Three” to mean “three days” is doubted for the prophet ( - صلى الله عليه وسلم -) may have said the statement itself three times, and this is the apparent meaning for bad breath does not last for such a period of time’.
(3) “Al-Mujtama‘” magazine. Kuwait Issue (no. 855).