SUICIDE
God is our creator, he is the giver of life, and he alone
has the right to end it. Suicide is forbidden in Islam;
this sin is listed among the "enormities" in Reliance
of the Traveller, a manual of Sharia in the tradition
of Imam Shafi'i.
Those who committed suicide ...
- to be roasted in a fire,
Do not kill yourselves, for Allah is compassionate
towards you. Whoever does so, in transgression and
wrongfully, We shall roast in a fire, and that is
an easy matter for Allah. (an-Nisaa 4:29-30)
- forbidden Paradise,
Narrated Thabit bin Ad-Dahhak:
The Prophet said, "Whoever intentionally swears falsely by
a religion other than Islam, then he is what he has said,
(e.g. if he says, 'If such thing is not true then I am a Jew,'
he is really a Jew). And whoever commits suicide with piece of
iron will be punished with the same piece of iron in the Hell
Fire." Narrated Jundab the Prophet said, "A man was inflicted with
wounds and he committed suicide, and so Allah said: My slave has
caused death on himself hurriedly, so I forbid Paradise for him."
(Sahih Bukhari 2.445)
- will be punished in hell by whatever used for suicide,
Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet said, "He who commits suicide by throttling shall
keep on throttling himself in the Hell Fire (forever) and he
who commits suicide by stabbing himself shall keep on stabbing
himself in the Hell-Fire."
(Sahih Bukhari 2.446,
2.445)
On the other hand, "SUICIDE BOMBERS"
are celebrated as martyrs.
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