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Committing
suicide
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Question:
What is the ruling regarding suicide in Islaam?
Response:
Suicide is when a person kills himself intentionally by whatever
means. This is haraam and regarded as amongst the major sins,
and likewise included in the general statement of Allaah (Subhaanahu
wa Ta'aala):
{And
whoever kills a believer intentionally, his recompense is
Hell to abide therein, and the Wrath and the Curse of Allaah
are upon him, and a great punishment is prepared for him},
[Soorah
an-Nisaa, Aayah
93].
And
it is established from the Sunnah on the authority of the
Prophet (sal-Allaahu
`alayhe wa sallam) who said:
((Indeed,
whoever (intentionally) kills himself, then certainly he will
be punished in the Fire of Hell, wherein he shall dwell forever)),
[Bukhaaree (5778) and Muslim (109 and 110)].
In
reality, the one who commits suicide, generally does so because
of his desperate situation, either as a direct result of an
act of Allaah or a human being. So you find him unable to
cope with that which has afflicted him, and in actual fact
he is like one who is calling for help from the scorching
heat of the fire. So he has progressed from that which was
tough (bad) to that which is worse. And if he was patient,
then Allaah would have assisted him in dealing with the difficulty.
Shaykh
Ibn 'Uthaymeen
Kayfa Nu'aalij Waaqi'unaa al-Aleem - Page 120
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