Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Q&A Alcohol Issues

In products which have alcohol like perfume, etc, if it's made

from something apart from grapes and dates is this permissible to

use, like one item inquiry was made of sugar cane with a

chemical? Yes, those things are generally allowed to use.

It's better to avoid, but in some things where you can hide hardly

avoid a small alcohol content, then if it's a minor alcohol

content, and it's not made from grapes or dates, and it's in a

very stable product, then aroma have allowed it

for particular purposes. Like there's a, there's a need for

gaining strength to, you know, for prayer for medicinal purposes, or

whatever the case is. The problem is that we have an issue is that

our there's a small, a small, minut amount of alcohol that's

used in many, many flavorings and so on. So the question that arises

there is,

is that it's in everything is it's very difficult to avoid. So if

it's in a minut amount, then some scholars have allowed that as long

as it's not from grapes or dates, because if it's from grapes,

dates, or, you know, dried dates, or

sultanas, raisins or whatever, then that will not be allowed at

all, even in a small amount. Right. This one, there's leniency

in that generally, it's industrial alcohol of some sort. And this one

is made of sugar cane.

And that's only allowed, because it's part of something like that.

And it's not been drunk as wine, or as beer. So somebody says,

okay, beer is not made of grapes, it has made a barley or something.

So I should be able to have rice beer or something. No, because

you're drinking like beer. In fact, what the LMR say is that if

you drink a drink in in a way that you drink wine, then that's even

wrong, because you're showing resemblance. So if you have a

schouler, right, grape juice, and you've got it in a flute, or in

one of those wine glasses, and you're doing the you know,

whatever it is, what do they do the when they click the glasses

together, and you're pretending it's wine, that's haram, they say.

That's why I have a massive issue with alcohol free beer. Because

it's just like beer at the end of the day. That's why many of them

have said even that is haram, even though it doesn't have sufficient

alcohol in there, because it's drunk like alcohol for the sake of

alcohol. Now, if somebody's got a problem with alcohol, and the only

way they're going to wean themselves off like nicotine

patches, and they're drinking maybe alcohol free beer, privately

that's up to them that's different, but to introduce it,

right as

just to look cool or to resemble or whatever that the old might

have not allowed, even though it's alcohol free.