"Self Pleasuring"

Q: Salam alaykum, Imam. I am a Muslim but I am from Lebanon, and it is hard to be a strong Muslim in this country: the girls here are beautiful. But my mother says until the Israelis give up all the land they've occupied in Palestine, I won't be able to get married. Astaghfirullah, but that's not going to be anytime soon. So, I was considering... you know, taking care of the problem on my own, so that I don't fall into temptation -- but some Muslims say that that is haram (forbidden) to do this. So I'm stuck between a haram and a haram and I am very confused. I want to save myself for the right girl, but until then, what can I do? There's a lot of clubs here and not enough Qur'ans. Help!

Wa 'alaykum salam. Since you are obviously the Arabic, I will skip the du'a and dive headfirst into the matter..

You should think of yourself my brother in the Islam not as a Muslim, but as a bottle of the soda. What is the soda for, but pouring it into the cup? Imagine that you took the bottle of soda and only shook it up and down. You might think, "One day I will pour it into a cup." But if you keep shaking it up and down, you will have no chance. There will be so much fizz from this the shaking up and down that the whole thing will explode and you will die and then you will go to hell. Even if you find a cup, you will have too much fizz but not enough liquid and this will not be the good beginning. Your wife will choose other, better bottle. I am thinking you should do the tawbah and the istighfar, and keep praying to the Allah, and perhaps just get married instead of all this individuality business. You know, my brother, I have been doing the research on the websites, and I am thinking also that individuality is haram. It is better to come in six-pack of soda, or large, party-size soda. It is better value..

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