Jangan brader... sabar... esok esok mungkin menang...

Dah terlambat... mula-mula tengok tajuk rasa nak gelak, gelihati... tapi bila tengok mangsa, aku terdiam.

Barangkali sebab itu kita berulang-ulang disuruh jaga iman kita. Tiada jaminan kita akan mati dalam iman walaupun sepanjang hidup kita beragama Islam.

Kenyan Arsenal fan hangs himself after Man Utd defeat

Reuters - May 6, 2009, 11:41 pm

NAIROBI, May 6 (Reuters) - An Arsenal fan in soccer-mad Kenya hanged himself wearing his beloved team's shirt after their defeat to Manchester United in the Champions League.

Like elsewhere across Africa, Kenyans pack bars for English Premier League and Champions League matches, especially those involving Arsenal, Manchester United, Chelsea and Liverpool.

Suleiman Omondi, 29, was found hanged at his home in a middle-class Nairobi estate shortly after leaving distraught from the pub where he had watched Arsenal lose 3-1 in their Champions League semi-final at the Emirates on Tuesday.

"He took some drinks and broke down in tears within the final minutes of the match," a fellow bar patron, who asked not to be named, told Reuters.

Police said they were called to Omondi's house on Wednesday morning. "What we are gathering is this suicide is related to the Arsenal and Manchester match," local Embakasi area police chief David Bunei told reporters.

Bar attendants said they had to intervene after Omondi lunged at a man who suggested Arsenal would not recover from conceding two early goals. They also lost the first leg 1-0.

Brawls are common in Kenya during football matches and there have been other related suicides reported in the past.

(Writing by Andrew Cawthorne, editing by Ken Ferris)

Question:

What is the ruling regarding suicide in Islam?

Reply:

Suicide is when a person kills himself intentionally by whatever means. This is haram [forbidden] and regarded as amongst the major sins, and likewise included in the general statement of Allah :

{And whoever kills a believer intentionally, his recompense is Hell to abide therein, and the Wrath and the Curse of Allaah are upon him, and a great punishment is prepared for him} [Soorah an-Nisaa, Aayah 93]

And it is established from the Sunnah on the authority of the Prophet who said:

((Indeed, whoever (intentionally) kills himself, then certainly he will be punished in the Fire of Hell, wherein he shall dwell forever)) [Bukhari (5778) and Muslim (109 and 110)]

In reality, the one who commits suicide, generally does so because of his desperate situation, either as a direct result of an act of Allah or a human being. So you find him unable to cope with that which has afflicted him, and in actual fact he is like one who is calling for help from the scorching heat of the fire. So he has progressed from that which was tough (bad) to that which is worse. And if he was patient, then Allah would have assisted him in dealing with the difficulty. [Sheikh Uthaimeen, Kayfa Nu'aalij Waaqi'unaa al-Aleem, p. 120]