Salaam alaykum, I was wondering if Hookah or Sheesha is permissible?
The youth here are very much into it and I was looking for some advice from the basis of Quran and Sunnah. Any prompt help would be much appreciated (there is actually a party here tomorrow where the youth will be engaging in this and I was hoping you could provide an answer before that).
Jazak Allah khayr
Wa Salaam

All praise be to Allah, and may His peace and blessings be on the greatest messenger, Muhammad.
Dear brother,
Smoking all kinds of tobacco in any form is forbidden (haram). This is for the consensus of sane humans on its harms and evils. The Messenger of Allah said:
“There should be neither harm nor reciprocation of harm.”
There used to be some controversy about its harms in the past, resulting in some earlier scholars (in the beginning of the twentieth century) hesitating to forbid it, but now, there is no more controversy amongst sane humans about its harms, and consequently, the ruling of its prohibition is established and confirmed.
It is also wasteful, and those who smoke waste their money on something that will bring disease and harm to their bodies. Allah said:
“إِنَّ الْمُبَذِّرِينَ كَانُواْ إِخْوَانَ الشَّيَاطِينِ وَكَانَ الشَّيْطَانُ لِرَبِّهِ كَفُورًا “
“Surely the squanderers are the fellows of the Shaitans and the Shaitan is ever ungrateful to his Lord.” (al-Isra’ 17:27)
Allah knows best.