Is it allowed for a person to revise the Quran while he is chewing qaat?

Answered by our Shaykh, the ‘Allaamah, the Trustworthy Adviser, Abu ‘Abdirrahman Yahya bin ‘Ali Al-Hajoori – may Allaah preserve him – on the 21st, Jumāda Al-Oulā, 1423 H

Question: Is it allowed for a person to revise the Quran while he is chewing qaat? And what is the ruling on chewing it firstly while they are saying that it is a means of energy for them for revision of the Quran?

Answer: The reality is that it gives them energy for disobedience’s and energy for not doing obedience’s, and energy for deviation and lying, and this speech (of theirs) is falsehood, and this is known amongst a lot of those who consume it, (that) they lie a lot, one of them would be stimulated upon lying while he is chewing..

To sum up may Allaah bless you: that buying qaat is spendthrifting and squandering, and that chewing qaat is impermissible according to what I understand in this issue in what I clarified in the tape pertaining to eating the good lawful foods, it’s title Al-Wābil As-Sayyib fil Khabīth wa At-Tayyib. And in it is many harms, and the Prophet ﷺ said {No harming oneself and no harming others}, and I have authored many books in clarification of its harmful effects and clarification of its impressibility… and this is the correct opinion.

Translated by : Abu ‘Abdillah ‘Omar bin Yahya Al-‘Akawi

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