Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Maliki Fiqh Intoxicants, Wine and Haram Animals Addison 04102020
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So we continue from where we left off,
yesterday,
after having spoken about,
different
things that are removed from the bodies of
different animals,
and which of them are pure and which
of them are impure,
and what the scope for difference of opinion
is between them.
And,
we left off,
of talking about bore bristle. And if you
wanna know more about that, you can just
go to yesterday's video inshallah and and
and watch her and listen from yesterday's recording.
And we continue
So he begins by saying that,
Allah,
most high,
has made,
the drinking of hamar,
haram.
Allah
has made the drinking of hamar haram.
And so,
what is hamar? Hamar generally is translated to
wine. The Arabs had
a a number of different
names and words for wine.
Interestingly enough, a fun fact that even the
word kahwa, which we used to mean coffee
nowadays,
is,
it used to be a name for a
particular type of wine.
For whatever reason it it transferred over once
the people started drinking the the wonderful drink
of this bean, which is
not haram, and it's
altogether wonderful. For whatever reason,
there's this like kind of urban legend between
like anti,
anti
olema uncles that like
the at first said that wine was or
coffee was haram, but then because so many
people started drinking it, they changed their fatwa.
And, I'm flabbergasted.
If you look at the amount of detailed
discussion that the ulama have, just about what
the definition of wine is, and how coffee
in no way shape or form fits that
wine.
And if some Mufti or another said it
was haram, the preponderant majority of the olema,
said that it wasn't. And there was no,
like,
popular vote. Like, you know, there's like a
a Twitter tweet by, like,
medieval sheikh Fulan, who's, like, should one be
halal or haram? Yes? No? Maybe? I don't
know. LOL. And, like, you know, whatever. LOL
won, but then they decided not to make
it haram anymore. This is completely stupid. If
you don't know any if you don't know
how to read Arabic and you can't cite
a book,
for,
stupid things that you say, Perhaps it's better
to stay quiet. And, unfortunately unfortunate these are
like weird types of pranks that people people
pull and they put up to me. I
was once invited to a party with relatives,
and
there were some in laws of in laws
of in laws or something like that visiting
from somewhere.
And, someone started like this kind of anti
Ulema urban legend,
you know, about how the Ottoman empire never
had any printing presses and blah blah blah.
And,
I I you know, there was a there
was a hamza that would have, like, completely
gone, like, mortal combat fatality mode about that.
And I held my tongue. I bit my
tongue. I thought, like, you know what? We're
gonna pray motherf,
and, then I'm gonna leave. And this is
all gonna be over. And, I don't need
to, like, whatever, because whoever is gonna say
something like this, so bold faced.
Me correcting them on
their
lack of historical acumen is not probably going
to
rectify the underlying problem.
And then what happened was after the salat,
you know, our host who probably knew,
what was boiling underneath my skin,
he said, Melania Sop, can you please say
some words of,
advice after the salat? I'm like, yeah, no.
It's a party. No one came here for
a band. He's like, no. I insist.
I was like, yes. Well, I'm telling you
no. And I'm gonna give you another chance.
And whatever happens is your fault after that.
He's like, no. Go ahead. And so then
we talked about
these kind of weird anti olema urban legends.
But at any rate, hamar is haram.
What the definition of hamar is is something
that the olema have discussed and
defined.
And, it's a really important and very rich
discussion,
part of which we're gonna have now and
another part of which inshallah you can
you can read
later on.
And, so he says that made
wine. For now, we'll just define it as
wine.
Haram illicit.
A little bit of it and a lot
of it.
So you cannot just say like, well, I
just took a sip.
No. All of it is haram. The small
amount is haram indeed.
The large amount is haram. The hadith is
the messenger of
Allah,
that everything that intoxicate
that a large amount of it will intoxicate
a person. A small amount of it is,
is haram as well.
And so,
this hadith has
some subtleties and meaning that need to be
extracted out using various Usuli
methodologies. But this hadith is a very sound
hadith. And so he mentions this. He says
that whatever is hammar, whatever is wine, or
whatever will get you drunk,
it is haram.
And the hadith of the prophet indicates that
thing that that a large amount of it
will get you drunk.
A small amount of it also then becomes
haram. So you can't just say I had
a sip or I had, you know, I
put it in, you know, I put the
wine into
the into the food for cooking or whatever.
And this is a thing. You know, people
cook with wine.
Non Muslims cook with wine. Some Muslims probably
do, but it's haram anyway.
And there's a reason to cook with wine.
You'll remember from your
chemistry days
that,
you know, things are you have a covalent
bonds and ionic bonds.
And so there are certain solvents
that,
will
will dissolve easily, readily dissolve things with high
levels of
covalence,
or
ionic bonds. So for example, water will dissolve
salt really well, but it won't dissolve something
that has
a
less electronegative
differential,
in the bond. So something like
oil. Right? Water is not going to dissolve
it because the whole shtick of water dissolving
it is that you have,
the oxygen that hogs the electrons of the
2 hydrogens that are with it, leaving a
complete face of, like, a proton exposed on
another side, which makes it very invasive whenever
there's a negative charge on something.
Whereas something like,
oil, it doesn't have I mean, it's electronegativity
is relatively balanced, and so the electron cloud
is
relatively well spread out, around the the the
molecule,
if it's just a pure hydrocarbon,
especially.
And so there's not that much for it
to the water to get into.
Rather,
it will dissolve with itself, and it will
prefer to dissolve in its in itself than
to mix with the with the water. And
so on the flip side, however, if you
have a solvent that's completely
non polar,
like a simple like a simple hydrocarbon,
solvent, there's a lot of things. It's not
gonna dissolve very well.
So that's why we
sometimes use water in cooking because there are
certain flavors that are more soluble in water.
And sometimes we like to use fat, like
butter
or oil will dissolve certain flavors better and
certain textures better. And so the reason one
of the reasons that they use alcohol in
cooking is what? Is that alcohol is a
funny solvent that's kinda halfway between
water and between
oil. And so there are certain flavors that
will dissolve in alcohol better than in any
anything else.
And, a lot of homeopathic medicines are also
suspended in alcohol as well for the
empirically proven to be useful or not. That's
something we can let other people get into.
But homeopathic medicines are dissolved and and
and suspended in alcohol because
those particular,
molecules, they they
they mix in the alcohol better. Another thing
that's oftentimes,
suspended in alcohol is what?
Is flavors.
So there's natural flavors. There's artificial flavors. There's
super concentrated stuff. And it's funny, natural flavor
means that
the flavor comes from a natural source. It
doesn't necessarily mean it's a natural flavor of
the thing it purports to be.
So apparently, like for example, natural pork flavor
is not made out of pigs. It's, some
particular molecule that they extract from like rotting
wood or something like that that gives things
the flavor of pork.
And so, you know, on a very basic
level,
the material itself would not be haram.
But, like, a lot of these flavors are
soluble in in alcohol, and they're kept in
alcohol. They're suspended in alcohol. And, like, you
know, it's really interesting in my work with
Halal Advocates.
You know, I have inspected flavor houses before,
and some of these flavors are so concentrated.
Like, if you take a teaspoon of of,
like, any flavor, like, whatever grape flavor, one
might think like, oh, grape flavor. A, what
could be haram? And b, like, that's wonderful.
You know? That'll taste really grapeity grapey. You
know? And, like, a teaspoon of it or
half a teaspoon of it is like it's
gonna kill you if it's so concentrated. You
know? You would use that in huge, like,
ton sized batches.
But, for the same principle, many of these
flavors are
suspended in, in alcohol,
because,
they their
polarity,
the polarity of their bonds
is not
so pronounced that they will
readily dissolve in water,
but it's not so,
nonpolar that it will readily dissolve in in
in in like, like oil or something like
that. And so it requires, you know, for
for for optimum extraction, it requires a solvent
somewhere along the middle. So for example, like
vanilla flavor. Vanilla flavor
that's used in chocolate chip cookies. Right? What
could be haram about that? Right?
Vanilla flavor that's in chocolate chip cookies is
is suspended in alcohol, and oftentimes, like, the
vanilla flavor that you'll buy will be like
30, 40, 50, 60 percent alcohol, which is
actually far more potent in terms of alcohol
content than a lot of,
a lot of spirits are. You know, a
lot of a lot of hard alcoholic beverages
definitely
has a higher
a far higher alcohol content than wine or
beer does,
which are definitely also haram.
So where does all of this leave us?
1, you know, if you wanna be real
hardcore,
and there are some people who love being
hardcore,
they wanna keep it real no matter how
how wrong it goes.
If you really wanna be hardcore, you can
get the vanilla flavor from Trader Joe's that's
suspended in propylene glycol. If you actually know
what propylene glycol is, you may not you
may see why, like, it's preferable,
for a food scientist to keep the flavor
suspended in
in alcohol given that propylene glycol is also
an ingredient in most industrial cleaners. And it's
also what they use,
in a lot of airports, less especially less
environmentally conscientious airports. It's what they use at
the airport to de ice the planes with,
because it has a real low freezing point
and it will, like, it will still mix
with the ice enough
to be able to get the the ice
off of the planes. If you have a
more environmentally
conscious airport, what they'll usually do is use
warm vegetable oil. And so, like, they'll turn
the airplane into a large aluminum pakora and,
like, you know, like, basted in in in
warm vegetable oil.
But the propylene glycol probably does a far
better job. And it's also what you use
to clean your toilets and your bathrooms and
tiles with.
And, a person who's a toxicologist,
you know, could tell us more about this,
but it's probably
not, as toxic as as as ethanol as
ethyl alcohol is, it's probably less toxic than
propylene glycol. You probably would rather ingest those
small amounts of propylene,
sorry, ethanol,
rather than the propylene glycol. Given the fact
that there is no set of chocolate chip
cookies that has so much vanilla flavor in
it that you're ever possibly gonna get chip
cookies that has so much vanilla flavor in
it that you're ever possibly gonna get drunk
from them. And this brings us back to
the hadith of the thing that
the Hanafi madhab,
which
is not the Maliki Madhab. I'm being very
clear about this from the beginning. The Hanafi
Madhab, which is not the Maliki Madhab. I'm
not giving a Maliki fatwa right now. Before,
you know, Abuleth is like, oh, oh, oh,
oh, oh, I got this guy. He's a
no. We're explaining Mas'a of the Hanafi madheb,
why, first of all, so people can understand
it. And b,
because this is an issue that is
to sort it out,
may
may not require a ruxa, but it may
seek a ruxa
reasonably, and we'll leave that to the to
the Muftis. The Hanafi Madhab has an opinion
in it, which I find to be a
very well reasoned opinion.
That this hadith, if you look at the
of
this hadith, that if it's the case that
that thing that a large amount of it
is going to,
make you
drunk,
that a small amount of it is haram,
that thing that a large amount of it
is not going to make you drunk, then
the small small amount of it should be
halal.
It's a very rational proposition.
And so people look at the alcohol, the
the vanilla flavor, and they say, well, it
has so much alcohol on it. If you
were to take a swig of it, you
know, or just just to chug it down
from the bottle, it would be completely haram
and it would totally make you drunk.
And I have no problem with that. If
someone wants to say that drinking alcohol from
the bottle is haram,
I I would probably
I would not probably. I would almost definitely
second that.
However,
the question is,
is the is the vanilla flavor that is
extracted in alcohol, is it or is it
wine or not for the purposes of the?
Why? Because if it's wine,
then a large amount of it and a
small amount of it will be haram.
And according to the Hanafi mad hub, wine
is the wine that's haram. The wine that
if a person says that it's not haram,
that person is outside the pale of Islam.
That wine which is haram is a necessarily
known part of the deen.
That
is a necessarily known part of the deen,
that every child of the Muslims knows that
that wine
is haram. The Hanafis, they make takid. They
they say that the takid is with the
nass, that it it the nass only explicitly
mentions the wine that's made of dates and
the wine that's made out of grapes. And
so they say that every other
every other thing that will make you drunk,
it will not technically follow the same ruling
as wine. However, it is still
haram. But it has to make you drunk.
Right? Has to make you drunk. So it's
taking a swig of the, of the,
of the vanilla flavor would make you drunk
if you drank enough of it. So it's
haram.
However, according to the,
it's,
you know, the whatever one tablespoon you put
into a batch of cookies and then bake
afterward,
the cookie that you're eating afterward
is, a, is definitely not hamar. And, b,
is it the question is, is it possible
to eat enough cookie to get drunk? That
you just keep eating, you fill your stomach.
And I love I love chocolate chip cookies.
Chocolate chip cookies are my poison. There are
some people who are addicted to, you know,
to crack, and some people are addicted to
heroin, and some people are addicted to alcoholic
alcoholics, and their livers are dying, and they
get into car accidents and stuff.
A lot didn't save me from my naps.
I'd probably kill myself on chocolate chip cookies.
However,
it's not hamar. And to my knowledge, there's
it's not possible to eat enough chocolate chip
cookies that a person gets tipsy.
And so,
because the the the fatwa is contingent with
the final product, a, is it or not?
No. It's not.
B, is the final product, does it have
enough alcohol in it to make you drunk?
Or another example for example is, like,
soy.
Right?
Soy sauce.
There are soy sauces that, in the fermentation
process will accrue a fair amount of alcohol,
enough to make a person drunk. Now the
problem with soy sauce is salted so badly
that I don't think a person could drink
even, you know, has a capacity without the
natural reflex of vomiting, could drink enough soy
sauce to get drunk. But the question is,
you know, for that soy sauce to be
haram. Like, if it was shafi and mufti,
my my guess would be that they would
just be, like, stamp it haram and be
rid of it. Right? But according to this
Hanafi,
setup,
You know, you have a soy sauce, you
mix it at the sushi restaurant with your
with your,
wasabi,
and then you dip a piece of sushi
in it. And sushi, what could be haram
with sushi? It's all seafood. Right? And, you
know, if you have some hanafis that are
hating on the shellfish, you know, you just
get the salmon and tuna. You know? People
ask me, our used to ask,
in,
in Madrasa, oh, my Hamza, you're a malek.
You can eat shrimp. You know? You must
eat shrimp all the time. And I'm like
I'm like, Sheikh, I don't even like eating
fish. Like, I don't I mean, like, as
far as I'm concerned, my bio biology training
shows me that the Hanifys are essentially correct,
that the shrimp and lobsters and crabs, these
are all just a bunch of, like basically,
they're like aquatic insects.
And they look really gross to me, and
I don't like eating them. And so they're
all very crestfallen and disappointed
because,
Masha Allah, I think all of them have
the secret love for the forbidden,
you know, for that forbidden fruit, and I
just I'm not I'm not down.
So,
at any rate, you know, so you have
your sushi. What could be halalar than that?
It's it's just fish. It's fish and rice.
Right? And so, what happens, there's mutin in
the in the, in the preparation of the
rice, which is problematic, and then there's alcohol
in the soy sauce.
By the according to the Hanafi standard, the
question is, is it possible to dunk your
your,
whatever,
spicy salmon roll or spicy tuna roll,
in enough,
wasaubinated
soy sauce?
And then eat it. And there is there
a number of pieces of sushi that you
can eat like that that are enough to
make a person tipsy to make them drunk?
I don't think there is. I don't think
there is. And so according to this, Madhub,
it's, you know, it should be it should
be permissible.
Now why is it that I mentioned this
Madhub first before mentioning the Maliki ruling? The
reason is this is that the Maliki ruling
of, like, ethanol being Khmer. If you take
the the Malachy ruling of of naturally brewed
ethanol,
a alcohol that comes into a
product through a natural brewing process that at
some stage along its existence
is a is a liquid that can make
you drunk.
To take all of them to to be
in the hookm of hamr. Because hamr is
haram for two reasons. 1 is because it's
it's intoxicating and the other is because it's
nudges,
Because it's filthy, it's ritually impure. So like
for example, if you pour if you spill
like a glass of wine on your clothes,
you have to wash those clothes. You can't
pray in those clothes because those clothes are
filthy,
even if you never got drunk off of
it.
And it's haram to consume filth. Right? So,
you know, I mean, it's haram to go
and be like, look, human feces. I mean,
it's not haram. It's not making me drunk.
No. You can't say that. Right? I mean,
it's gross anyway. But, like, you know, just
for the purpose of, like, understanding the law,
it's najis and eating najis's haram, selling and
buying najis's haram like we've talked about in
in previous days. So the issue is this
is that if we say that if we
say that those things are hamr,
we have a a number of problems that
occur.
One is that, like, almost every package thing
has natural flavors in it. And is not
a, you know, nadasa or ritual impurity is
not a hookam that is it's a spiritual
hookam. It's not a physical hookam. Right? So
theoretically speaking, you could, you know, you could
mix,
you know, you could mix a an amount.
There is 8 poll. Ibn Abizaid's poll is
that in a in a small amount of,
of liquid, you mix a small amount of,
and it just makes it nudges.
Now the the poll of Malik is, and
the of the the malak
is that it has to
affect the taste, the color, or the smell
of the of the, liquid in order for
it to make that liquid into something not
just but natural flavors,
by their definition, affect the taste.
Artificial flavors by their definition affect the taste,
and almost all of them are suspended in
what? They're suspended in alcohol.
So you have a problem that if you
want to be consistent with following that fatwa,
then all of a sudden, really anything you
buy, sell,
that's food stuff with a package in it,
a great majority of them are going to
be nudges. They're gonna be Haram to eat.
And I'm not arguing that that opinion is
not with merit, and I'm not arguing it's
not a good opinion. I'm just saying we
have to be honest with ourselves. We cannot
be disingenuous and say like, well, look, you
know, like, eating chocolate chip cookies is Haram,
but then you're gonna
eat store bought bread or you're gonna eat,
you know, like a store bought,
like a Snickers bar or a ice cream
bar or really anything
that has natural flavors or artificial flavors in
it.
So in Ameli's sense, I think everyone ends
up making,
practice on the Hanafi madhah whether they like
it or not. Or you can go, like,
off the deep end of the reservation like,
there was a old gentleman
who, you know, Allah forgive him. He passed
away from this world is what I'm told.
But Allah forgive him. He,
opened a website called Muslim Consumer Group, and
he was complete like, he was completely off
his rocker. He made everything in the haram.
Coke is haram. This is haram. That's haram.
This haram. This haram. That's haram, etcetera.
And there's a most obvious position in the
Hanafi Mahab saying that these things are not
haram.
And,
but but, you know and he was a
food scientist. He was not a scholar nor
was he a,
nor was he a
a person who, like, as far as I
could tell, had any or anything.
And, one might say, well, if he's passed
away, why do you speak evil of of
of of him? I'm not speaking evil to
the guy. I hope Allah forgives him. I
wouldn't want to have to account for the
thing that he did because it's a really
bad sin. To talk about without it having
any knowledge is really bad, and the is
an amana.
There are huge chapters of what would have
been considered a heba backbiting, which have been
opened up for the necessity of the preservation
of knowledge. The whole,
science of,
of
of, you know, of grading narrators
and grading narrators of hadith.
You know, the comments that are made about
those narrators would be considered completely awful backbiting.
But it's a it's a necessity that when
somebody
speaks about that you
you know, if they make a mistake, you
gotta call it out. And, this man, he
didn't make it. As far as I could
tell, he didn't, you know, he didn't crack
open any books of fiqh or illim. He
just kinda like, who's the Golub? This has
alcohol in it. Haram.
Or and,
that's that. But at any rate, this, Hanafi
Fatah, which I feel is,
argued really well and is based on usul,
that are based on the nususar din. I
think it is a fatwa that I think
people should feel comfortable
with and that we should feel comfortable taking.
If I have a choice, I'll avoid things
that have alcohol in them.
For example, like, a interesting, like, the corollary
to this is what?
Is, perfumes.
Most perfumes, and by definition, all colognes,
will have ethanol in them as a,
you know, as as as a way of
increasing the vapor pressure of the of the
liquid
so as to
bring out the smell of
whatever essence there is in in the perfume.
So, like, all French perfumes and all,
almost all French perfumes and almost all,
colognes and, western
scents.
They have they have alcohol in them. And
so I asked about this, Fatwa, one of
the Mauritanian.
He He says that it's very interesting that
you asked us to Hanafi,
Ruxa. They they take it because for whatever
reason, even many of the oleman Mauritania really
love French perfumes. Like, they're, like, really you
know, they love them. And I could see
why because the great perfume markets of the
east are very far away. And oftentimes, those
perfumes that are there in the eastern markets
are even more expensive than the ones that
are in department stores.
And France is far closer and probably has
more regular delivery to a place like Mauritania.
So those are probably the best perfumes they
have access to,
unless they go to the Harambee and Sharifeng.
And,
so many of them will use it, and,
they'll you know, they're aware of the the
the Hanafi fatwa, and they take, they take
advantage of it, that the alcohol in those
things is not nudges.
And, again,
it does affect the you know,
will will be the hook and will transfer
it if it affects the color, taste, or
smell of the, of the the the water,
the liquid it's mixed in. If it's a
perfume, it's obviously gonna affect the smell.
And so
and so, you know,
I would avoid, you know, I would avoid
the beer battered fish and these types of
things because you can.
But those things that
are those things that are cooked in some
sort of synthetic alcohol
or, something that was never,
at a stage that was meant for drinking
consumption.
I think there's there's some leeway to to
take this, to take this ruxa.
But in all cases,
actual wine wine that's made of dates and
grapes, if someone uses it as an additive
in something that's being cooked,
that that
thing will be haram by consensus because even
the Hanafis will say that that wine wine
that's from, like, dates or grapes,
that's.
And so even a tablespoon of that in,
like, a great amount of food will just
make the entire thing into ritual impurity.
And,
thus it should be avoided.
So here, there's a discussion about this.
There was a time that these things didn't
need to be so detailed because food preparation
was far simpler than it is, right, you
know, for nowadays, and it was a less
industrialized
process,
happens in a in a laboratory.
But, here we are, and we explained the
reasons for that as well.
So, Allah made haram
transcendent above blemishes. He the drinking of hamar
of wine,
a little bit and a lot of it.
And
the drink,
the alcoholic drink of the Arabs in those
days
was made of, of of dates. And this
is, described in the
and so,
the,
you know, they would just smash up the
dates and then pour water and mix water
in it, and they would let the
let the drink oxidize.
The first stage of oxidation
from sugar,
it makes alcohol,
then the next stage of oxidation makes an
aldehyde, and then the next stage of oxidation,
makes it into a into an acid.
And, actually, that's how the the body deals
with
ethanol,
is the liver will just oxidize it to
make it stop, like,
functioning,
in the body.
And so we'll make it into ethyl aldehyde
with it, which is a relatively,
a relatively
innocuous
substance in the bloodstream.
And that's why that's why drinking methyl alcohol
is so dangerous because
if you if the body will deal with
it the same way, we'll just oxidize it
and turn it into methyl aldehyde,
which is also known by conventional name formaldehyde,
which is going is a very toxic,
substance. It's actually used to stop, like, corpses
from rotting.
So it's not gonna be very good.
So he mentions that,
that the the the the dominant
alcoholic beverage that the Arabs used to drink,
was
this which was made out of,
made out of dates. What a waste of
dates.
And the messenger of Allah
he, made very clear,
that
that everything
that, makes a person drunk,
from the from from drinks,
that makes that a large amount of it
will make a person drunk, then a small
amount of it is is haram.
Uh-uh,
and everything,
everything. And he uses, in particular, this word,
everything that will
that will make the rational process in a
person,
seem,
obscure,
to a person,
and that takes a person's rational faculty away
from them.
From
every every every thing that's drunk.
All of
them, according to the Maliki,
it's
all
considered to be
all considered to be. It's all considered to
be wine,
by the standard that we mentioned from before.
And we mentioned the Hanafi standard because of
the because of the prevalence of,
the prevalence of things that have some amount
of, that alcohol in it or another.
And so it's very interesting here. It's important
to note also that the
the
they actually this is something that I hear
from people. They're like, well, you know, weed
is different than
than alcohol.
And those of them actually distinguish between the
drunkenness of,
the drunkenness of getting drunk and the,
effects of narcotics. And they recognize that they're
different. And they're both haram, but for different
reasons and with different degrees with different variations,
which we may have time to discuss a
little bit later in the task, but, we're
not gonna discuss right now.
The the the the one who
the
Nabi said that the one who made drinking,
the alcohol haram,
that, Nabi
also,
he made
he made selling at haram as well. And
this is a sickness that is there in
many of our.
It's a sickness that's there in our community.
It's a sickness that's there,
and the type of just weird and decrepit
nifak that's there. And
many people in our community members,
many people that our community is made up
of. And we need to call it out,
and we need to
make sure that such people's money don't doesn't
make it into the masajid.
And we need to, really, like, put pressure
on such people to change their ways and
find a halal
means of income. Many people in our community
are selling alcohol, and the worst part about
it is that many of them will,
sell it in those poor neighborhoods. I mean,
it's bad enough if you sell it in
the suburbs to rich people. That's bad as
well. But they'll sell it in those poor
neighborhoods
to those,
socioeconomically
depressed,
people and the socioeconomically
depressed neighborhoods. And oftentimes, it will be black
neighborhoods. It will be minority neighborhoods.
And our people will profit from their, death
and from their destruction.
And there's no profit in it whatsoever. And
I've seen those families
that's or, like, that you'll see someone has
a liquor store. So I don't have a
liquor store. They'll have, like, a restaurant,
and they will sell in their restaurant beer
or wine. They'll say, brother, we can't make
money, you know, without it. You know? You
can make money. I remember there was one,
once restaurant owner,
that,
you know, 1 Ramadan made toba and, like,
decided to stop selling alcohol in his restaurant.
And the guy owns, like, several houses, and
he drives, like, machala,
6 figure cars and things like that.
And, you know, he's like, for me, I'm
giving up so much money. And I said,
don't say you're giving up money. That was
ill gotten wealth.
You know, it wasn't yours to take in
the first place. And Allah has fed you,
You're paying your bills. You have a house
to, like, live in. You're putting clothes on
your back. Your kids are you're putting clothes
on their backs. You know? They're you're feeding
them. But all of his relatives ran restaurants,
and they all sold alcohol.
And they all said, oh, look how much
money we're making. You're an idiot. You're not
making as much as we are. Look how
much we're taking home. Home. Look how much
we're this, how much we're that, etcetera. And,
you know, it just got in his head.
And one day, you see that the, you
know, the beer fridge is back in the
thing. And, and, you know, I just I
just got up and left. I didn't even
bother ordering.
And then you see the flip side, the
the the flip side, the other, example as
well, that there are some people who had
huge businesses. They had restaurants that were at
the top end with top end clientele,
and they made,
you know, handover fist money. And this is
one of the one of the things you
always when you're selling,
you'll make money off off of it because,
that's the way that's the way it is.
You're selling something of no benefit in the
first place. You'll make large amounts of profit,
you know,
you know,
in in in a very in a very
scratch the surface superficial way. But what ends
up happening, those same families like in the
previous,
examples described, you see someone is a drug
addict, someone dies in a car accident, someone
this an entire family of children are wiped
out
from being functional human beings, and, really, they
deserve it. It's better to be wiped out
in this world than to be wiped out
in the hereafter.
Protect all of us from getting what we
deserve. I don't wanna, like, look down on
them, but this is a very clear choice
that a person makes it. You're gonna sell
alcohol. You're gonna rip people off. You're gonna
you're gonna eat the people's,
money
through falsehood. You know, someone's gonna get drunk
and go home and beat his wife. Someone's
gonna go drunk and get drunk and beat
his children. Someone's gonna get into a car
accident on the way home. Someone
this is going to introduce diseases into their
body. There's no benefit or,
you know,
good in it at all. And the greatest
sign of Nifaka is that these people, they'll
say, like, well, we sell it. We don't
drink it ourselves. Yeah. Yeah. Of course, you
don't drink it yourself because you know it's
poison. What kind of a scorpion of a
human being,
what kind of akhara and bitch who would,
like, sell something to somebody knowing that it's
gonna harm them, but be okay with, like,
taking money from them for them to harm
themselves.
That's not, you know, that's not that's not
from the sifaat and the shiym of Islam
or from the shiym or sifaat of being
a Muslim.
And so,
so, you know, we've seen those people who
have these huge businesses, really high class, like,
a lister,
type clientele.
And,
they gave it up and they turned their
restaurants into, like, fast food chains.
And you're sure they're not making as much
money.
Sure. Of course, they're absolutely they're not making
as much money. But inshallah, there's salama and
then there's peace and there's blessing. And then
who knows, maybe
will turn their business into something that will
get them even more money afterward. But the
point is whether you make the money or
you don't make the money, you didn't declare
war on the Lord.
You didn't,
you didn't you didn't earn the enmity in
the spite of, of the one who created
the heavens and the earth from nothing.
And all of all of you, you know
you're all going to return to him. All
of us, you know that we're all
all going to return to him one day
and have to give it hey, Sal, have
to give account for that. And that's, I
mean, that's the point. Whether or not your
business makes it or not is not the
point. That's the point. Because even if your
business is like, you know, Forbes, Fortune 500,
amazing company in the world and, like, Donald
Trump and,
Barack Obama are trying to shake your hand
because of how awesome your business is,
You know, neither of them is gonna be
there to help you on that day.
And that's kind of what Islam is all
about.
So, Ibn Abizaid mentions that that the Rasool,
salallahu alaihi wa sallam said that the one,
jallallahu alaihi wa sallam, the one who made
its drinking haram, made its sale haram. And,
likewise,
made buying it haram, made transporting it haram,
made, witnessing its sale haram, made storing it.
Everything having to do with that transaction, all
of it is is poisoned.
All of it is toxic to a person's
deen and to a person's iman.
You know, we read this that he forbid,
mixing drinks as well.
But in the same,
he forbid them,
forbid their mixing
and and and and and
he forbid their mixing,
and the shub.
So he, forbid from mixing the different,
some the different things that they made nabi
from. So nabi is a a drink that
the
that the Arabs used to drink.
And nabi is an interesting thing. It's basically
like fruit soaked water. I think it's probably
the best way of of describing it. That
if you,
put fruit in water, if you put dates
in water or you soak,
grapes in water or raisins in water or
whatever,
The you know how they have, like, this
infused water in, like, hotel lobbies? I imagine
it's something like that.
And so it has, like, a a pleasant
aroma, but it's not, like, completely smashed up
like,
it's not completely smashed up like,
like Juice is.
And so,
So it, you know, it was it's kinda
like more of like
I don't know. I imagine it was probably,
like, some sort of energy drink type of
thing. There's something similar that they do in
Punjab with soaking the the the soaking wheat.
They call it, sattu.
And all of these drinks, I, you know,
I imagine it's the same issue, which is
what if that if you leave the fruit
in there soaking long enough, then
it will,
it will become alcoholic. The drink will become
alcoholic.
And so
the nabeeb is permissible as long as it
hasn't become alcoholic yet. So a person has
to make sure that they haven't left it
there too long. The messenger, Raul, salallahu
alaihi wa sallam,
he he mentioned that you cannot,
you cannot mix the fruit
and the and the,
and that
when you actually put you can't mix all
of these different fruits in,
at the time of at the time of
soaking
in the soaking process nor at the time
of drinking.
And so what I imagine the the
because the thing is, these are things that
I guess we don't really practice anymore, nowadays.
But I imagine
part of the part of the reason for
the prohibition
is that, you know, there are different fruits
that are on in different
points along the decay process.
And so,
some of them, if you mix something that's,
like, further along, it will probably make the
entire thing,
rot and ferment faster.
But, this is the that he mentions. It
mentions the
that the that you should
mix the fruits in in the process of
soaking them, or you should mix the fruits,
or you should have the different soaked fruit
water,
and drink them at the same time.
And, you know, this is something that they
used to drink nabi. You know, the companions
used to drink it, but they would make
sure that it wasn't, soaking for too long.
Because if it soaks for too long, it
will become muskrat. It will become,
intoxicating.
And so I remember a
a,
a narration in the,
which testifies to the weight of Saidna Ali
that
during his caliphate,
one of the,
Ansar came to visit him, I believe in
Kufa.
And the Ansar to a man, they backed
Said Ali,
in the fitan.
And, so
what happened, it was a very hot day
outside, and so there was a bowl of
a bowl of nabeed.
And, so it was given to that companions
to drink, and he downed it very quickly.
And then afterward, it became clear that he
he was, he was drunk.
And said,
like, you know, I'm the Amirul Mumineen, and
I apologize. I recognize that this is not
by any fault of your own. But you're
drunk right now, and this is a hadd
from the Hadood of Allah Ta'ala, and I'm
the imam. I'm the sovereign,
imam of the Muslims. And so I'm going
to have to, implement hadith on you. I'm
gonna have to lash you for this.
And so the person, who's quick witted enough,
he says, woah, hold on a second. He
says, don't you know I was there at
the battle of Badr? And don't you know
the messenger of Allah
said, what do you know about the people
of Badr that Allah has not looked into
their hearts and said to them,
do whatever you want after this day. You
forgive it.
You do whatever you want after this day.
You're all forgiven.
And,
Said Ali
who responds to him, he says he says,
yes. I was also there at the battle
of Badr. And so if there's anything any
sin in in in having you lashed, inshallah,
Allah will forgive me for it.
But the point is is that they used
to they used to drink nadib, but, but,
you know, if you're not careful,
this is something this is something that that
could happen. But it's it seems a bit
far from from our
our experiences
our experience nowadays.
And a lot of the things that we
drink that are called juice are not really
juice anyway.
But I don't I don't ever recall, like,
hearing about somebody, you know, busting open a
tropicana
or busting open a, like, a, you know,
coconut water,
or or whatever, and, like, getting drunk. I
don't I don't I don't I don't know
that to be I don't know that to
be an issue. In the high school chemistry
class,
a chemistry professor of mine once said that,
a half oxygenated,
rotten pineapple juice will all turn into ether
and could become explosive.
But I never really tried that out. And
given the current political climate, it's probably people
who look like me,
probably best not not mess with
mess with the pineapple,
pineapple ether,
whether it's a reality or or a, community
college,
legend.
And the prophet
forbid
soaking fruit
in the, daba and the muzafat.
And the daba and the muzafat are 2
types of container
that
were typically used for were typically used for
the,
for for the fermentation and the drinking and
storage of
of of intoxicating,
of wines and intoxicating beverages.
To be honest with you, I I don't
know what they look like.
And, that somebody, you know, somebody can look
that up if they wish to.
But
that kind of that that that the the
point is if you look in the that's
what it it says
is that the types of container that were
commonly associated with
with,
drunkenness.
He forbid,
the eating
of,
the eating of,
the eating of,
of every,
fanged creature,
every fanged creature from wild animals.
It's everything that is like a predator, basically.
Like lions and like jackals and hyenas and
like
foxes
and like wolves.
And,
and here the prophet
forbid it.
Malik made made Malik interprets this
prohibition as being karaha,
that it's. A person shouldn't eat them. They
should stay away from them. Not eating them
is something that is rewarded.
But he considered eating them not to be
a sin. There's this whole thing about like
eating bats,
from wet markets. Is it haram in the
Maliki mad hub? But, yeah, at least it's
Makru.
So please don't go around telling
everyone I'm a Maliki, and I can eat
bats if I want to. It's, you know,
it's, you know, the carnivorous bats, it's at
least to eat them.
And so a person,
you know, just because it's not haram, please
don't turn this into, like, the Batman man
hub,
and all that I know is best. The
point is taken that it's not haram. Fatwa
is not it's not that it's haram to
eat eat,
eat,
carnivorous or predatory animals,
in the madhab.
The not like as in 7, but as
like sibah,
That eating dogs, likewise, is Makruh and the
and the Maliki Malheb,
as opposed to the ones who say that
is haram or the ones who say that
it is,
permissible.
So in the Malachy school,
there are only 4 animals that are like
haram haram.
And those 4 animals are what?
They are,
they'll mention one of them is pig. You
know that. 2 of them, they're about to
mention right now. And the 4th one is
people. People are completely haram. You cannot eat
people.
People are more haram than than pigs,
to eat.
And then the rest of the animals are
either permissible or.
And so he mentions that the the fanged
or the predatory animals,
they are,
the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, like,
stopped people from eating them. And Malik, or,
you know, interpreted that mean to mean karah
that it's makru.
And
Nabi saw some forbade people from eating the,
the meat
of,
of domesticated
donkeys.
And so donkeys are domesticated,
and so
this is opposed to a wild donkey, which
is permissible to eat. I asked the what
is a wild donkey. They said, like, you
know, the one that has black and white
stripes. So basically a zebra. You can hunt
a zebra,
and eat it, but the domesticated donkey is
haram to eat,
as well as the
as well as the horse.
And, to my understanding, all the prohibit
eating horses except for one pole of the
Hanafi madhab,
which is practiced by some people in Central
Asia.
Not all of them. Like, I think the
Turkmen's because the Turks have a real,
traditionally culturally, a real close, attachment
you know, so some of them would eat
horse. I think the Turquemans, they actually,
have abhor the eating of horses because their
attachment is, like, even that much closer than
others.
Because they all used to be, accomplished horsemen
riders, and, they could,
shoot up with some accuracy.
They're they could shoot arrows as archers with
some accuracy
from horseback,
even at speed,
which made them very effective warriors back in
the day.
And so if donkey is haram
and,
horse is haram,
then,
you know, rationally,
a
a mule should be haram because a mule
is half horse and half donkey. So it's
haram from both sides of the family.
And the proof for this, ibn Abi Zaid
says is this the word of Allah,
blessed and high is he,
that Allah made them
for you to ride in as a beauty
for you.
Meaning one of the problems if you start
eating horses and you start eating donkeys
is that you no longer have,
the
the
the the capacity to transport
people and goods with them.
And they're,
they're not so well suited for eating, and
they're much well suited for
for for, use for transport.
And so,
they should be they should be protected,
for that. And it's interesting.
This is exactly what's happening in Africa. Apparently,
in China, donkey meat is, like, really, like,
in demand and, like, donkey parts and things
like that. And so
places in places in Africa and different places
around the world because there's huge demand for
for donkey.
China's been going there and they go donkey
hides. Apparently, they make something out of the
donkey hides as well. So they've been going
into these countries and just, like, cleaning out
all the donkeys and importing them to to
China. And now there are donkey shortages, and
donkeys are used for simple things like bringing
water from wells or transporting things around the
farm and whatnot.
And so countries are starting to abandon the
export of donkeys to to China,
for for for for this very reason, in
fact. So there's some great hikmah in the
in the Quranic injunction,
And a person,
doesn't slaughter,
any of them. The slaughtering them does not
make them halal,
whether it's donkeys or whether it's,
horses.
So that it
neither by soldering them according to Islamic ritual
will neither make the nor
will it make the,
the hide or the
or the,
the the parts of the body tahir.
It will not rend render them pure. They'll
still be ritually impure.
Except for
except for the, the wild donkey. But we
said from before that the hook them of
the wild donkey, meaning the zebra, is different
than the hook them of
of the,
Himar Ahli,
the the the the just normal domesticated donkey.
Allah,
purge from our
people and from our
hearts and from our consumption,
the curse of alcohol
and the curse of its price
and the curse of its business
and the curse of seeing it and the
curse of its facilitation.
And may it not enter any of our
homes. May it not enter any of our
mouths. May money
that's cursed, that has Lana in it not
enter any of our pockets.
That we may not feed our children from
it and may may we may we definitely
not,
spend any of it on our masajid or
on the students of knowledge or on the
poor
or on the orphan
or, on the Madaris or any of the
institutions of Deen,
whoever is,
whoever is tried with it. If someone hears
this or listens to it,
or know somebody who is, may Allah
give them give them a cure from its
addiction. May Allah
make
and distance between them and between it. May
Allah
give them the tawfiq of making tawba and
moving away from it, whether it's consumption of
its or the consumption of its its proceeds
or money.
Allah
give us tofieth in general to make Tawbah
from everything Haram.
This is a hadith, it's a sunnah and
sunnah dua of the messenger
Oh, Allah, suffice me with your halal,
as opposed to your haram,
and, make me free of need,
through you, from anyone else other than you.
So this is a good
This is a good good duh offer a
person who's in any sort of haram, whether
it's money, whether it's something they eat or
something they drink or, some other activity.
Whatever it is, a person should constantly ask
us. The system has, left the reins of
the system have left the hands of the
righteous and the pious for some time now.
And now they're, in the hands of the,
you know,
and,
mischief makers,
who, are trying to profit as much as
they can and and slash and burn as
much as they can and smash and grab
as much as they can,
on the heels of the destruction of civilization,
in order to enjoy for a few days.
And we say to such people,
eat and drink a little bit.
You are criminals
in the highest court.
And we say
that on the day of judgment,
a curse will befall upon, those who deny,
on that day. Allah
protect us and give us and give us
a way out of these,
out of all of this haram and all
of this filth that has,
that has completely,
has completely befouled
our lives.
Allah forgive us and accept our tawba
and protect us and protect the Umasay Muhammad
from
this,
from this pandemic and from this disease. And
whoever,
has it, may Allah cure them. And whoever
doesn't have it, may Allah protect them. And
whoever died from it, may Allah accept it
as a shahada for them. And whoever is
working to fight against it, may Allah
may
Allah reward them. Whoever risk themselves, even the
grocery baggers and the, janitors,
whoever is serving the public in this time
and keeping things going and putting themselves in
danger in this time. The doctors, the nurses,
the respiratory therapists, etcetera,
all of them from one side of the
continuum to the other.
Allah,
forgive them their sins and increase their rank
and write for them a great reward because
of it. And, may Allah
open our masajid and our Jama'at again so
that we can set our right foot in
the masajid.
Allah
open for me the doors of your mercy
and that we may pray our prayers,
in congregation and that we may leave and
say,
I ask you, you, Allah, from your bounty
and from your grace. May
Allah open the Haramain, Sharif, and Maso Aqsa,
and all the other masajid again soon. And
may Allah,
use this as a a a means
to, uplift and raise and elevate,
those people who love him and those people
who love the ummah of the prophet
and those people who love the creation and
will benefit them. And may he use it
as a means to abase
all of those jackals and hyenas in human
form,
who would, like to harm the creation and
who like to harm the Ummah say the
Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam in order to
ingratiate themselves or ingratiate their own nafoos.