Marijuana

Assalamu Alaikum

Brother Illuminati, there is a reward, both in this world and the next, for the decision you have made.  Inshallah you will feel its effect and know that your decision was the right one.  What you need to do is simply ask Allah for forgiveness and then don't look back at the past, just keep looking in the direction of Allah the Merciful.  We live in a world that hates to see people living purely for Allah because then we are not buying into what they have for sale.  But what they have for sale can never match what Allah can give us.  Once again, I will end my post with an ayat, but this time, it�s a du'a.  Inshallah you will learn it and keep it close to your heart always.

Our Lord! Lay not on us a burden greater than we have strength to bear. Blot out our sins, and grant us forgiveness. Have mercy on us. Thou art our Protector; Help us against those who stand against faith. (2:286)

rabbana wala tuhammilna ma la taqata lana bihi waoAAfu -AAanna waighfir lana wairhamna anta mawlana faonsurna AAala alqawmi alkafireena

Assalamu Alaikum

Brother Illuminati, shukran for your honest and open post.  It is wonderful to see someone as young as you concerned about their deen.   Where are you originally from?  Please don�t judge all American�s by what you see in Houston.  I, too, lived in Houston for a brief time in my life and I know what you mean.  But not all Americans live like that.  Houston like any other big city in the US is where a people congregate to for work.  This means that for most larger cities there are higher populations of those who are under educated and who are low on the social economic scale.  I am not trying to say that those who fit into this category are necessarily as you are describing; however, sadly it happens within this group more often than in others.  I don�t think this thread is the proper place to discuss such social dynamics so I will end with that.  Hopefully I have not offended anyone.  If so, I am truly sorry and that was not my intentions.

With respect to your consumption of marijuana, regardless of whether you smoke it or eat it, marijuana is an intoxicant which fogs the brain and because of this, any salat which you make while you have THC in your system is invalid.  Allah commands us not to approach Him in prayer when our mind is in a fog.

4:43 O ye who believe! Approach not prayers with a mind befogged, until ye can understand all that ye say,- nor in a state of ceremonial impurity (Except when travelling on the road), until after washing your whole body. If ye are ill, or on a journey, or one of you cometh from offices of nature, or ye have been in contact with women, and ye find no water, then take for yourselves clean sand or earth, and rub therewith your faces and hands. For Allah doth blot out sins and forgive again and again.

Ya ayyuha allatheena amanoo la taqraboo alssalata waantum sukara hatta taAAlamoo ma taqooloona wala junuban illa AAabiree sabeelin hatta taghtasiloo wain kuntum marda aw AAala safarin aw jaa ahadun minkum mina alghaiti aw lamastumu alnnisaa falam tajidoo maan fatayammamoo saAAeedan tayyiban faimsahoo biwujoohikum waaydeekum inna Allaha kana AAafuwwan ghafooran