The ruling on drinking alcohol for the sake of treatment?
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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, is the permissibility of drinking alcohol to relieve a choking sensation analogous to the permissibility of drinking alcohol if no other treatment exists that saves a person from destruction?
Answer:
No, no, it is not permissible, and it is not possible that there is no treatment. He said:Mishkat al-Masabih 4514 It is not possible that there is no treatment; there is treatment, and praise be to Allah. And when the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was asked about alcohol being made into medicine, he said: "It is a disease, not a medicine." So it is not permissible to use it ever. Yes.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, is the permissibility of drinking alcohol to relieve a choking sensation analogous to the permissibility of drinking alcohol if no other treatment exists that saves a person from destruction?
Answer:
No, no, it is not permissible, and it is not possible that there is no treatment. He said:
as saying: “God has not sent down a disease without sending down remedy for it.”
صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ مَا أَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ دَاء إِلا أنزل لَهُ دَوَاء
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [2348 -2802] حكم شرب الخمر من أجل العلاج؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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