Musleh Khan – Should we use Products that contain traces of Alcohol

			Salam Alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuhu brothers and sisters, your brother Muslim, here. Today
let's talk about alcohol in food products. Many Muslims are confused about this issue. You go to the
grocery store, you buy something at a restaurant or an ice cap, and there's traces of alcohol in it.
Even perfumes that have alcohol ointments that have alcohol medicines that have alcohol does all of
this fall under one umbrella and become proud of them. So here's the first thing that we want to
talk about. Brothers and sisters understand that alcohol literally any of us who have taken basic
chemistry, you would know that alcohol come in millions of different grades and different types. And
		

			the alcohol that is referred to in these food products are not necessarily alcohol that will
intoxicate you. In the Quran, Allah subhanho wa Taala prohibits alcohol. But more specifically, the
verses are always talking about somebody who is most scared of somebody who's intoxicated. That's
why one versus less tolerable sada will enter. So Kara, don't get near Sala and you're in a drunken
state. So understand, and this is, of course, is the most extreme type of alcohol is the alcohol
that causes you to become drunk, this is the most extreme of them. So that's one thing you want to
understand about how the poor an incident addresses this kind of issue. Now coming to alcohol,
		

			specifically in food products and medicines, brothers and sisters, this type of alcohol here is a
completely different grade of alcohol that's used as a preservative. That's why it gives these
products a longer shelf life into grocery stores, you can buy an ice cap, and you can literally take
the entire day to try to finish this, this drink. And the drink will still taste the same from the
moment to about it. Why? Because it's more or less something to just preserve the taste, preserve
the texture. And even I talked to one, one brother who was working in a particular farm here in
Toronto. And he had told me that in their company, the expiry dates that are on their products, the
		

			expiry date is given to those products based on how long the alcohol can preserve that particular
product. So it's it's essential part of the food in terms of preservation, but it doesn't actually
affect the taste of the product itself. So that's important to note, because what this tells you is
that this type of alcohol is not going to intoxicate you. And so therefore, it shouldn't be an issue
for you to consume. However, having said that, I still there is another opinion that's argued that
alcohol is natural or impure, so you shouldn't consume it anyways. Now here's the next point that
you want to understand with regards to this opinion. When alcohol is put into these products, it is
		

			such a new level of alcohol, it's almost untraceable. Like even if you wanted to extract the
alcohol, you couldn't extract it, it's just untraceable because the amount of it is so minute. So
what scholars say is that this nebulous product of alcohol is so minute that it doesn't actually
affect the three elements that need to be affected in the in a food product in order for it to
become hot, or impure. So an example of this is imagine if you had a swimming pool and you threw
some kind of necklace in it, some kind of impurity in it, one of three things has to happen for that
swimming pool to become impure, either the taste of the water is altered, the smell of the water is
		

			there, or the texture of the water has changed. One of these three elements has to change with that
particular product before the ruling is changed. So having said that, here you are drinking a nice
ice cap or you have like vanilla extract or you have some kind of medicine that has alcohol in it,
you need to look at one of these three elements and see what of it has changed the texture of that
product change or the smell of it, can you actually smell the alcohol coming out of that product? If
you do, then you know right away you stay away from it. Or when you taste it, do you actually taste
like something fumi and sort of has that alcohol taste to it, then of course it becomes hot as well.
		

			So once you keep in this principle and anybody who again has studied basic fit in the chapter of
tahara, you'll know that these three principles are always there when you judge a product or water
or anything to note whether it's pure or not. So the taste is there The smell is there or the
texture has been altered in any way, then the product becomes hot on So having said that to
conclude, are these products always hot? Um, the answer is No, they're not. And simply because
again, keep in mind of how little niches or impurity is within these products. I just want to
mention one side point before we conclude. Some have argued we'll look it really doesn't matter. As
		

			long as the product. The impure ingredient exists.
		

			exist, it becomes haraam cased close, there is no such thing as 1% or 5% out on, it's either hot or
it simply isn't. And this is a principle that is unheard of scholars have mentioned it shifts. Now,
even taymiyah has talked about this a lot as well in his schedule. I mean, this is a principle that
really, it's not very practical. Because if you were to apply that principle in every food product,
then you're going to run into a problem because literally everything that we eat, to some degree has
some kind of impurity in it, whether it's bacterial, whether it's something else, some kind of
impurity could be there, the things that we touch, the things that we handle, all of this has become
		

			impure, the clothes, the clothing that we wear, the elements that it's exposed to outside can always
carry some kind of impurity. But why are you still allowed to pray with them? Why are you still
allowed to, you can touch like some some dirty doorknob or something and some people choose not to
wash their hands, and they can still eat, nothing happens to them. Why? Because those impurities are
so minute, it doesn't affect the food itself or what it is that you're going to handle. So that's
really, really important in sha Allah, when you choose these products and understand brothers and
sisters, it's not how and right off the bat. The last point that I want to mention to you is the
		

			safety point that I call it. So always safe. If you can avoid these products, just avoid them make
your life easy, and that's also a safe opinion as well. So if the doctor prescribes something for
you that has traces of alcohol in it, simply ask the doctor if there are any other alternatives for
you that don't have alcohol in it. Usually 90% of the time you can find other products without
alcohol otherwise, take the product, take the medicine enjoy the food and May Allah subhanho wa
Taala reward all of you said Mr. Li Kumar to lubricate