What is the ruling on naming perfumes with the names of intoxicants?
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, a person makes perfumes and sells them, but before selling them he names them with the names of intoxicants to promote them. A person makes perfumes and sells them, but before selling them he names them with the names of intoxicants to promote them.
Answer:
How does he promote them? Intoxicants are promoted? This is not permissible, and a thing should not be named by a name other than its own. Intoxicants are forbidden, and it is not permissible to name a good thing with that name.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, a person makes perfumes and sells them, but before selling them he names them with the names of intoxicants to promote them. A person makes perfumes and sells them, but before selling them he names them with the names of intoxicants to promote them.
Answer:
How does he promote them? Intoxicants are promoted? This is not permissible, and a thing should not be named by a name other than its own. Intoxicants are forbidden, and it is not permissible to name a good thing with that name.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [1560 -3022] ما حكم تسمية أسماء العطور بأسماء الخمور؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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