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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Is the warning authentic that the prayer of one who drinks intoxicants will not be accepted for forty nights?

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Question:
May Allah reward you, Your Eminence, father. The questioner asks: Is it authentic in the warning that the prayer of one who drinks intoxicants will not be accepted from him for forty nights?

Answer:
By Allah, I do not know what I am trying to recall here, but in the hadith it is said:
The habitual drinker of intoxicants is like the worshipper of the idol,مدمن الخمر كعابد الوثن،
Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 14:338
So the one who worships an idol and is attached to it, and it has taken root in his heart, and he loves it, is like the one who drinks intoxicants; he cannot part with the intoxicants. The polytheist cannot part with the idol because it has taken his heart. The Children of Israel had the love of the calf they worshipped instilled in their hearts, may Allah protect us from that. If the disbelievers did not love the idols, they would not have worshipped them.
This is among the punishments. This is among the punishments for one who abandons the love of Allah, Mighty and Majestic, who created him, provided for him, and commanded him to worship Him; he is afflicted with the love of idols and the love of filthy things and the filthy ones. We ask Allah for safety. This is a transformation. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، هل صح الوعيد على من شرب الخمر ألا تقبل صلاته أربعين ليلة؟ للشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com

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