The impurity of khamr (intoxicants): is it conceptual or physical?
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, is the impurity of intoxicants spiritual or physical?
The Shaykh:
There is no doubt about the conceptual impurity, but it is also physically impure, based on His saying:[Al-Ma'idah 5:90]. The *rajis* (abomination) is the impurity; it is the impure thing. Yes.
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh.
The Shaykh:
The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered it to be poured out and commanded its destruction. This is evidence that it is corrupt, that it cannot be held as property, and that it should not be kept. One must hasten to destroy and remove it. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, is the impurity of intoxicants spiritual or physical?
The Shaykh:
There is no doubt about the conceptual impurity, but it is also physically impure, based on His saying:
O you who have believed, indeed, intoxicants, gambling, [sacrificing on] stone alters [to other than Allah], and divining arrows are but defilement from the work of Satan
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا إِنَّمَا الْخَمْرُ وَالْمَيْسِرُ وَالْأَنصَابُ وَالْأَزْلَامُ رِجْسٌ مِّنْ عَمَلِ الشَّيْطَانِThe questioner:
Honorable Shaykh.
The Shaykh:
The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered it to be poured out and commanded its destruction. This is evidence that it is corrupt, that it cannot be held as property, and that it should not be kept. One must hasten to destroy and remove it. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 17 من 86 /شرح كتاب إغاثة اللهفان في مصائد الشيطان/أدران القلب/صالح الفوزان/العقيدة/كبار العلماء — youtube.com (37:01)
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