The Ruling on Killing in a State of Intoxication
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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, is the ruling for an intoxicated person who commits an error the same as the ruling for a child or a madman, meaning that his intentional act is considered an error?
Answer:
An intoxicated person falls into two categories: one who becomes intoxicated without his own choice, either because he did not know or because he was forced to consume the intoxicant; such a person is not held accountable. As for the one who does so by his own choice, who drinks khamr (intoxicants) knowing that it is an intoxicant, the hudud (fixed punishments) are not dropped from him, nor is the liability for the crime he commits dropped from him.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, is the ruling for an intoxicated person who commits an error the same as the ruling for a child or a madman, meaning that his intentional act is considered an error?
Answer:
An intoxicated person falls into two categories: one who becomes intoxicated without his own choice, either because he did not know or because he was forced to consume the intoxicant; such a person is not held accountable. As for the one who does so by his own choice, who drinks khamr (intoxicants) knowing that it is an intoxicant, the hudud (fixed punishments) are not dropped from him, nor is the liability for the crime he commits dropped from him.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [2128 -2802] حكم القتل في حالة السكر - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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