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CONDITIONS OF BAI‘AT AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF AN AHMADI
smoked the huqqah and their huqqahs were in the building at the time. When they heard about Hudur’s displeasure they all broke their huqqahs immediately and gave up smoking. Within a few days, when members of the Community came to know that Hudur disliked the huqqah, many courageous Ahmadis stopped smoking it. (Ashab-e-Ahmad, vol. 10, pp. 157–158, published in 1985) Mirza Ahmad Beig of Sahiwal narrates that Hadrat Muslehe-Mau‘udra once said to my uncle Mirza Ghulamullah, ‘Mirza Sahib, encourage your friends to give up huqqah.’ Uncle, who himself used to smoke huqqah, said ‘Very well, Hudur.’ He went home and broke his huqqah that stood by the wall. My aunt thought that he was upset because the huqqah had been left in the sun, but when my uncle did not say anything to anyone, and then my aunt asked him why had he taken his anger out on the huqqah? He replied: ‘Hadrat Sahib had asked me to discourage others from smoking huqqah; but as I myself smoked it, therefore I had first broken my own huqqah.’ As long as he lived he did not smoke huqqah again; and kept on dissuading others from smoking it. (Sawaneh-e-Fadl-e-‘Umar, vol. 2, p. 34) These days the same bad habit of huqqah is prevalent in the form of cigarette smoking. Cigarette smokers should try and give up this habit. At young age the malady of cigarette smoking leads on to many other forms of smoking in which narcotics are used. This is a step towards ruining young lives. It is web weaned by Dajjal. Unfortunately Muslims countries are also involved in the drug abuse. Anyway, our young men should try to give up cigarette smoking.
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