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Fatwa CenterRuling on Swearing to Quit Marijuana and Supplicating Against Oneself
Question
I want to ask.That my wife made my put hand on quran to promise to quit smoking weed.At that time i was drunk and had alchohol. But she said if i dont put hand on quran she will leave me.So i took an oath on quran and said i will never do it again or else i will face the harsh consequences.Now please quide is this promise valid and what if its broken
Answer
All perfect praise be to Allah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allah, and that Muhammad (
) is His Slave and Messenger.
We ask Allah to grant you sincere repentance. Marijuana is prohibited, and you must stop using it under all circumstances. This is even more serious given that you swore to abandon it and invoked a severe consequence upon yourself if you were to return to it.
If you were aware of what you were saying when you made that oath, then the oath is valid. You must honor it, and it is prohibited to break it. If you do break it, then you must offer the expiation for breaking an oath.
There is reason to fear that what you invoked upon yourself may happen if you return to using marijuana, as the Prophet forbade a person from supplicating against himself because such a supplication may be answered. Imam Muslim 
reported in his Saheeh that the Messenger of Allah said: “Do not supplicate against yourselves, do not supplicate against your children, do not supplicate against your servants, and do not supplicate against your wealth, lest your supplication coincide with a time in which Allah grants requests and your supplication is answered.”
Al-Khaadimi the Hanafi scholar, said in Bareeqah Mahmoodiyyah: “This means: do not make harmful supplications, lest your supplication coincide with a time of response and you regret it, and your regret will be of no benefit.” [End quote.]
So, beware of returning to this sin, and strive against yourself to stay away from it, lest you incur sin and lest what you invoked upon yourself befall you.
However, if you had lost your mind due to intoxication, then the validity of an oath made in that state is a matter of scholarly disagreement. The stronger view is that such an oath is considered meaningless and invalid, and nothing results from it.
It is mentioned in Majmoo‘ Al-Fataawa that Ibn Taymiyyah was asked about an intoxicated person who had lost his mental awareness and whether he would be held accountable for an oath of divorce. He replied: “This issue has two scholarly opinions. The stronger of them is that his divorce does not take effect. Therefore, the oath of an intoxicated person is not valid, and divorce does not occur if he issues it. This is authentically reported from the Leader of the Believers, ‘Uthmaan ibn ‘Affaan, and I do not know of any disagreement from the Companions regarding this. It is also the view of many early and later scholars, such as ‘Umar Ibn ‘Abd Al-‘Azeez 
and others. It is one of the two reported opinions from Ahmad chosen by a group of his companions. It is also Al-Shafi‘i’s earlier opinion, chosen by some of his companions, and it is also the view of a group among the companions of Abu Haneefah such as Al-Tahhaawi as well as others.” [End quote.]
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