Evil Effects of Smoking
This is an incident I like to relate: When the Promised Messiah(as) went to Jalandhar in 1892, he resided on the upper floor of a house. A maid placed a huqqah [hubble bubble] in the house and left to do something else. Accidentally some ashes from the huqqah fell and burned some parts of the floor. The fire was noticed and extinguished after the prayer service was concluded. At that time Huzur expressed his displeasure and dislike for those who smoke the huqqah. The Ahmadis who were downstairs came to know about this. Many of them smoked the huqqah and their huqqahs were in the building at the time. When they heard about Huzur’s displeasure they all broke their huqqahs immediately and gave up smoking. Within a few days, when members of the Community came to know that Huzur disliked the huqqah, many courageous Ahmadis stopped smoking it. (Ashab-e-Ahmad, vol. 10, pp. 157–158, published in 1985)
Mirza Ahmad Beig of Sahiwal narrates that Hazrat Musleh-e-Mau‘ud(ra) once said to my uncle Mirza Ghulamullah, ‘Mirza Sahib, encourage your friends to give up huqqah.’ Uncle, who himself used to smoke huqqah, said ‘Very well, Huzur.’ He went home and broke his huqqah that stood by the wall. My aunt thought that he was upset because the huqqah had been left in the sun, but when my uncle did not say anything to anyone, and then my aunt asked him why had he taken his anger out on the huqqah? He replied: ‘Hazrat Sahib had asked me to discourage others from smoking huqqah; but as I myself smoked it, therefore I had first broken my own huqqah.’ As long as he lived he did not smoke huqqah again; and kept on dissuading others from smoking it. (Sawaneh-e-Fadl-e-‘Umar, vol. 2, p. 34)
These days the same bad habit of huqqah is prevalent in the form of cigarette smoking. Cigarette smokers should try and give up this habit. At young age the malady of cigarette smoking leads on to many other forms of smoking in which narcotics are used. This is a step towards ruining young lives. It is web weaned by Dajjal. Unfortunately Muslims countries are also involved in the drug abuse. Anyway, our young men should try to give up cigarette smoking.