Sorry, this is out of our range for now.
Ibrahim why don't you tell its out of our law.
Not sure what his opinion is, but he didn't actually say that. He said 1000 BTC (which is roughly a million dollars) was out of his range.
I'm not actually sure whether marijuana is haram. I think it would actually depend on circumstances.
There are several concerns here. The most important principle of Islam is tauheed, or the unity of Allah. We all come from Allah and to Allah is our return. Therefore the greatest sin is shirk, or denying the unity of Allah by associating partners. This is to be avoided at all costs.
"They have taken their rabbis and their monks-as well as the Christ, son of Mary-for their lords beside God, although they had been bidden to worship none but the One God, save whom there is no deity: the One who is utterly remote, in His limitless glory, from anything to which they may ascribe a share in His divinity!" 9:31, Muhammad Asad translation.
Ibn Kathir in his Tafsir cites a hadith regarding this ayat.
`Adi, who was one of the chiefs of his people (the tribe of Tai') and whose father, Hatim At-Ta'i, was known for his generosity, went to Al-Madinah. When the people announced his arrival, `Adi went to the Messenger of Allah wearing a silver cross around his neck. The Messenger of Allah recited this Ayah;
﴿اتَّخَذُواْ أَحْبَـرَهُمْ وَرُهْبَـنَهُمْ أَرْبَاباً مِّن دُونِ اللَّهِ﴾
(They took their rabbis and their monks to be their lords besides Allah). `Adi commented, "I said, `They did not worship them.''' The Prophet said,
«بَلَى إِنَّهُمْ حَرَّمُوا عَلَيْهِمُ الْحَلَالَ وَأَحَلُّوا لَهُمُ الْحَرَامَ فَاتَّبَعُوهُمْ فَذَلِكَ عِبَادَتُهُمْ إِيَّاهُم»
(Yes they did. They (rabbis and monks) prohibited the allowed for them (Christians and Jews) and allowed the prohibited, and they obeyed them. This is how they worshipped them.)
So to follow a legal ruling in contradiction of the commands of Allah, or to follow the commands of a human to the exclusion of the commands of Allah is shirk.
Therefore, the danger of committing shirk by declaring cannabis as being in the same class as khamr when it is uncertain, I am not willing to do, even if there are many scholars who hold this opinion.
The wisdom behind alcohol being banned is clear- deaths from car crashes, wife beating, child neglect, lost jobs, various negative health effects on the digestive system, liver, brain and heart are well documented. In the case of cannabis, however, there are no deaths from overdose, people do not become violent when they use it, but people are seen to become idle or less productive because of consumption. So to say it is disliked, or makruh, I can understand, but to say it is haram means that it has to fall under the category of khamr.
On the authority Abi Ab’dillahi al-Nu’man ibn Basheer (ra) who said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) say: “That which is lawful is clear and that which is unlawful is clear and between the two of them are doubtful [or ambiguous] matters about which not many people are knowledgeable. Thus, he who avoids these doubtful matters certainly clears himself in regard to his religion and his honor. But he who falls into the doubtful matters falls into that which is unlawful like the shepherd who pastures around a sanctuary, all but grazing therein. Verily every king has a sanctuary and Allah’s sanctuary is His prohibition. In the body there is a morsel of flesh which, if it be sound, all the body is sound and which, if it be diseased, all the body is diseased. This part of the body is the heart”.
For this reason I do not use cannabis nor do I condone its use, but the danger of committing shirk by declaring haram what Allah could easily have made clearly haram had He wished, is greater than the danger of some people using cannabis, which has proven to be far less harmful than alcohol.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2010/11/drugs_cause_most_harm
