Suicide and suicidal attack both are Haram in the eye of Islam.
(وَلَا تَقْتُلُوا أَنفُسَكُمْإِنَّ اللَّهَ كَانَ بِكُمْ رَحِيمًا) (النساء: 29)
And do not kill yourselves (nor kill one another). Surely, Allah is Most Merciful to you. {Sura Nisa:29}
It is never permissible to blow one’s self as human bomb. Once when someone who participated in a war with Prophet (PBUH) got injured and committed suicide, Prophet (PBUH) declared him as Jahannami {dweller of hell}.
عن سهل بن سعد الساعدي “أن رسول الله التقى هو والمشركون فاقتتلوا فلما مال رسول الله إلى عسكره ومال الآخرون إلى عسكرهم وفي أصحاب رسول الله رجل لا يدع لهم شاذة ولا فاذة إلا اتبعها يضربها بسيفه فقال ما أجزأ منا اليوم أحد أجزأ فلان فقال رسول الله أما إنه من أهل النار. فقال رجل أنا صاحبه قال فخرج معه كلما وقف وقف معه وإذا أسرع أسرع معه قال فجرح الرجل جرحاً شديداً فاستعجل الموت فوضع سيفه بالأرض وذبابه بين ثدييه ثم تحامل على سيفه فقتل نفسه. فخرج الرجل إلى رسول الله فقال: أشهد أنك رسول الله قال وما ذاك؟ قال: الرجل الذي ذكرت آنفاً إنه من أهل النار، فأعظم الناس ذلك فقلت أنا لكم به فخرجت في طلبه ثم جرح جرحاً شديداً فاستعجل الموت فوضع نصل سيفه في الأرض ذبابه بين ثدييه ثم تحامل عليه فقتل نفسه. فقال رسول الله عند ذلك: إن الرجل ليعمل عمل الجنة فيما يبدو للناس وهو من أهل النار. وإن الرجل ليعمل عمل أهل النار فيما يبدو للناس وهو من أهل الجنة”. (رواه البخاري: باب غزوة خيبر)
Narrated Sahl bin Sa’d As-Saidi:
Allah’s Messenger (PBUH) and the pagans faced each other and started fighting. When Allah’s Messenger (PBUH) returned to his camp and when the pagans returned to their camp, somebody talked about a man amongst the companions of Allah’s Messenger (PBUH) who would follow and kill with his sword any pagan going alone. He said, “Nobody did his job (i.e. fighting) so properly today as that man”. Allah’s Messenger (PBUH) said, “Indeed, he is amongst the people of the (Hell) Fire”. A man amongst the people said, “I shall accompany him (to watch what he does)” Thus he accompanied him, and wherever he stood, he would stand with him, and wherever he ran, he would run with him. Then the (brave) man got wounded seriously and he decided to bring about his death quickly. He planted the blade of the sword in the ground directing its sharp end towards his chest between his two breasts. Then he leaned on the sword and killed himself. The other man came to Allah’s Messenger (PBUH) and said, “I testify that you are Allah’s Messenger (PBUH)”. The Prophet (PBUH) asked, “What has happened?”. He replied, “(It is about) the man whom you had described as one of the people of the (Hell) Fire. The people were greatly surprised at what you said, and I said, ‘I will find out his reality for you’. So, I came out seeking him. He got severely wounded and hastened to die by slanting the blade of his sword in the ground directing its sharp end towards his chest between his two breasts. Then he eased on his sword and killed himself”. When Allah’s Messenger (PBUH) said, “A man may seem to the people as if he were practicing the deeds of the people of Paradise while in fact, he is from the people of the Hell (Fire); another may seem to the people as if he were practicing the deeds of the people of Hell (Fire), while in fact, he is from the people of Paradise”. {Bukhari:2/504}.
Suicide is such an awful crime in the eye of Islam that, it is permissible to offer the funeral prayer for someone who committed other offenses but it is prohibited to offer the funeral prayer for someone who has committed suicide.
” من مات بعد ولادته حياًلا لبغي أو قطع طريق أو مكابرة في مصر أو قتل لأحد أبويه أو قتل لنفسه. (رد المحتار: للشامي).
Funeral prayer cannot be offered on rebels, dacoits, killers of own parents and committers of suicide. {Fatwa e Shami: 3/103}
Therefore, such activities can never be supported. Those who commit suicide can never be considered as a martyr. He can never be among the noble martyrs of Islam.
وعن أبي هريرة مرفوعاً:” من تردى من جبل فقتل نفسه لهو في نار جهنم يتردى فيها خالداً مخلداً فيها أبدا”.. (أخرجه البخاري، كتاب الطب باب شرب السم والدواء به، ومسلم في الإيمان).
وعن ثابت بن الضحاك مرفوعاً: “من قلت نفسه بحديدة عذب به في نار جهنم”. (رواه البخاري، كتاب الجنائز، باب ما جاء في قاتل النفس، ومسلم في الإيمان).
Narrated Abu Hurayira:
The Prophet (PBUH) said, “Whoever purposely throws himself from a mountain and kills himself, will be in the (Hell) Fire falling down into it and abiding therein perpetually forever; {Muslim;139}
Narrated by Thabit bin Ad-Dahhak:
The Prophet (PBUH) said, “Whoever intentionally swears falsely by a religion other than Islam, then he is what he has said, (e.g. if he says, ‘If such thing is not true then I am a Jew, ‘he is really a Jew). And whoever commits suicide with a piece of iron will be punished with the same piece of iron in the Hell Fire”. {Muslim:110}
