Does anything become binding upon a young man if he breaks his promise to his mother to quit smoking, which he swore to by God?
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Smoking and trading in it are forbidden, and one must abstain from it, whether you made a covenant with Allah regarding it or not. This is because your Islam is a covenant between you and Allah to perform obligations and abandon prohibitions. Your abstinence from it is further emphasized as an act of obedience to your mother. If you made a covenant with Allah in the form of an oath and then smoked again, you must offer expiation for breaking an oath.
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