Suicide?

Nothing can replace our life. Nobody can buy life. Even the cats. (You know, some people believe that cats have nine lives each. Yet, they'll still die, just like other creatures)

We are the creatures of Allah. Allah is the One who controls us. He is the one who sets our death time. However, no one can actually know his or hers. It is a secret. A secret that can only be revealed once the time come.

But why?

Allah wants us to be kind all the time. When we do not know when will we die, we will try to do goodness every and each time to ensure our death is a good death, to ensure that we do kindness when the time come. Isn't it good to die in the prayer? Isn't it good to die when we are helping others? Our death indicates the hereafter. A good death means 'jannah'.

Meanwhile, what if we die in the cinema? On the road, racing harmfully? Or in front of our computer, looking at the pornography pictures? It will be terrible, isn't it? Not only it indicates our bad future in the hereafter, our family members left will also be humiliated! People will talk about the person for a long time about something bad. Don't we feel pity to them?

Suicide is also categorized as a bad death. Some brainless people thought that suicide is the best alternative to solve problems especially about money, love and studies. Every month, or maybe everyday, we can read in the newspaper about anyone committing suicide or at least attempting it.

In Islam, one of the five basic things that are important to take care of is LIFE, either yours or others. So, committing suicide is already contradict with that principle. And there are very many ways to do it. Sometimes (or always), we are approaching it without being realized.

NO SMOKING

One of the most actions I have seen in my own country that contributes the most to the suicide cases is smoking. Although it is literally not considered as suicide in data collection, it IS actually killing yourselves. It is your own hands which put the cigarette into your mouth. It is your own mouths which suck the harmful gases. And you use your own money to buy it! In most cases, you can actually put the blame on yourselves. Who forced you to do it? No one, right?

Some organizations realized that traditional cigarettes are bad for health. Thus, they try to make an innovation by inventing the electronic cigarettes. Yet, it is also harmful! Some scientists also said that the chemicals in the e-cigarettes are much more harmful compared to the traditional ones. You are killing yourselves!

In addition to killing yourselves, you will also kill your beloved ones, the people who always beside you and also the ordinary citizens. Don't you feel pity to them? They are not guilty yet they are still affected! The harmful gases sneak out through the cigarettes will harm people who smell them. And they are your family, your relatives, your friends! You kill your loved ones, don't you realize it?

Thus, please and please, stop smoking for those who are smoking. You will kill yourself and your beloved ones!

“Don't kill yourselves. Verily, Allah loves you.”

[An-Nisa': 29]