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- This ḥadīth provides decisive proof that it is forbidden for a person to take his own life, for the soul is not his possession but the possession of its Creator. He may therefore deal with it only in ways the Law permits, such as medical treatment or therapeutic cupping.
In our age suicide has become widespread for the most trivial reasons—may Allah protect us from such a wretched state. Whenever matters go against someone, he resorts to killing himself, thereby rushing headlong into the Fire. The root cause is weakness of resolve, narrow-mindedness, cowardice in the face of trials, and a shallow level of faith. Had he possessed even a trace of faith in Allah, or certainty about what awaits with Him, he would have hoped for reward through his affliction and feared the punishment for taking his own life; yet most of them fail to grasp this.
- Concerning the divine declaration, “Paradise has been forbidden to him,” it has already been stated that the soundest approach to texts of this sort is to leave them in their full force as stern warnings, without subjecting them to figurative interpretation; this is the position adopted by the majority of scholars.
٥- في هذا الحديث دليل على تحريم قتل الإنسان نفسه. لأنها ليست ملكه وإنما هي ملك خالقها، فلا يجوز له أن يتصرف إلا بما أذن فيه كالتداوي والحجامة.
وقد فشا في هذه الأزمنة [الانتحار] لأتفَهِ الأسباب، والعياذ بالله تعالى من سوء الحال.
فعندما تعاكسه الأمور، يعمد إلى قتل نفسه وتعجيلها إلى النار.
وهذا يرجع إلى ضعف في العزيمة، وضيق في الفكر، وجبن عند الخطوب، وضحالة في الإيمان.
ولو كان عنده شيء من إيمان بالله تعالى، أو يقين فيما عنده، لَرَََََجَا بمصيبته الثواب، ولَخَافَ من قتل نفسه العقاب، ولكن أكثرهم لا يفقهون.
٦- قوله: "حرمت عليه الجنة" تقدم أن الأحسن في مثل هذه النصوص إبقاءها على تهويلها وزجرها بلا تأويل، وهو مذهب جمهور العلماء.