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What is the ruling on using substances that contain alcohol, given that alcohol is used in cleaning products, cosmetics, and perfumes?

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Question:
What is the ruling on using substances that contain alcohol, knowing that various types of this alcohol, in different proportions, are used in cleaning products, cosmetics, and perfumes? May Allah reward you with good.

Answer:
If it is established that these substances contain alcohol that has an effect, a presence, and apparent signs indicating it, then it is not permissible to use what has been mixed with it, because that is using intoxicants. Allah the Exalted says:
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, so avoid it that you may be successful.يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا إِنَّمَا الْخَمْرُ وَالْمَيْسِرُ وَالْأَنصَابُ وَالْأَزْلَامُ رِجْسٌ مِّنْ عَمَلِ الشَّيْطَانِ فَاجْتَنِبُوهُ لَعَلَّكُمْ تُفْلِحُونَ
[Al-Ma'idah 5:90]
So He commanded avoiding it, and if a person uses it, he is not avoiding it. In addition, intoxicants are ritually impure according to the majority of scholars, because Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, described them as abomination, in His saying: "Indeed, intoxicants, gambling, [sacrifices on] stone altars [to anything other than Allah], and divining arrows are but an abomination of Satan's handiwork." And "abomination" means ritually impure. However, if this proportion of alcohol is very small and is consumed, and no sign of it appears with these things, then it has no ruling, because it has gone, been consumed, and been lost among and submerged in these things.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما حكم استعمال المواد التي تحتوي على الكحول علما أن الكحول تدخل في أدوات التنظيف والتجميل والعطور؟ — youtube.com

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