What is the ruling on smoking the nargileh (water pipe)?
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Smoking, in all its forms and types, is forbidden due to its foulness and its harm to the smoker, and its causing harm to those around him, based on the Almighty's saying: (And He makes lawful for them the good things and prohibits for them the evil things) [Al-A'raf: 157], and on the saying of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him: "There should be no harm or reciprocating harm."
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