Using the pouring of intoxicants in the streets as evidence for their purity
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The questioner:
May Allah grant you success. You mentioned that intoxicants are ritually impure, but the question is: when they were prohibited, they flowed in those streets. Does this not indicate that they are pure?
The Shaykh:
The street is what is traversed; it may have depressions and it may have two sides. It is reported that the street is pure and is washed and cleaned. No, this was not reported, this was not reported. Or is it a condition of the street that it be pure, and let it be among the things that affect it the impurities, including the intoxicants that have been poured out? But if a person knows of the impurity in the street, he avoids it and does not step in it. And if he steps in it, he washes his foot. But if he does not know, the default for streets is purity.
May Allah grant you success. You mentioned that intoxicants are ritually impure, but the question is: when they were prohibited, they flowed in those streets. Does this not indicate that they are pure?
The Shaykh:
The street is what is traversed; it may have depressions and it may have two sides. It is reported that the street is pure and is washed and cleaned. No, this was not reported, this was not reported. Or is it a condition of the street that it be pure, and let it be among the things that affect it the impurities, including the intoxicants that have been poured out? But if a person knows of the impurity in the street, he avoids it and does not step in it. And if he steps in it, he washes his foot. But if he does not know, the default for streets is purity.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 141/17 شرح زاد المستقنع/ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (1:00:33)
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