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Shaykh 'Abdur-Rahman As-Sa'dī Allāh said: ﴿وَكُلُوا وَاشْرَبُوا وَلَا تُسْرِفُوا ۚ إِنَّهُ لَا يُحِبُّ الْمُسْرِفِينَ﴾ “Eat and drink but do not be excessive. Indeed He does not like the excessive.” (Al-A’rāf 7:31) Al-Allāmah As-Sa’dī said concerning this verse: He said: “Eat and drink,” Meaning: from what Allāh has provided you with from At-Tayyibāt (good and permissible foods). ”And do not be excessive.” Meaning: In that (eating and drinking). Being excessive is either by way of consuming...

Shaykh Muhammad ibn Saalih Al-‘Uthaymeen Question: May Allaah bless you; is he who dies as a result of smoking considered to have committed suicide? Answer: Do you believe that he who smokes does so in order to die? Answer me, does he do so (for that purpose) or not? (The man answers in the negative) That’s it. Then he is not committing suicide. However, he who places explosives upon his stomach and goes to his enemy and detonates them there, is he committing suicide or not? He is committing...

Shaykh Muhammad ibn Sālih Al-'Uthaymīn said: I’d like to take an opportunity to discuss a phenomenon which was mentioned to us. And it is: Many of the obstetricians in the hospitals—male and female--are eager for child births to take place by way of a surgical procedure, known as cesarean. And I fear this is a plot against the Muslims. This is because the more births take place in this manner, the more the skin of the abdomen is weakened and pregnancy becomes more dangerous for the woman, and...