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.