The punishment for the drinker of intoxicants and the non-acceptance of his prayer for forty days
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The questioner:
He asks: Is it true that the prayer of the drinker of intoxicants is not accepted for forty days, and what is the punishment for the drinker: eighty lashes or forty?
The Shaykh:
The punishment for the drinker is for the judge to determine. You are not a judge. But the majority of scholars, and the practice of the Companions, who agreed upon it from the time of 'Umar ibn al-Khattab, is that it is eighty lashes.
It is eighty lashes, and this has become established. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "FollowJami` at-Tirmidhi 2676Sahih (Darussalam) It was the advice of 'Ali ibn Abi Talib (may Allah be pleased with him). And if he is drunk, and if he fabricates, he is to be lashed the punishment of the fabricator, meaning the one who falsely accuses. This is the practice that the Companions and those who came after them established. Yes.
The questioner:
And is it true that the prayer of the drinker of intoxicants is not accepted for forty days?
The Shaykh:
No. What was reported is that the habitual drinker of intoxicants, the one who persists in drinking and dies while persisting in it, does not enter Paradise. This is a warning. It does not mean that he is a disbeliever and that he will be eternally in the Fire. No, it means that this is a warning; he may be forbidden from entering Paradise at first, and be punished in the Fire, and then enter Paradise after that. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
He asks: Is it true that the prayer of the drinker of intoxicants is not accepted for forty days, and what is the punishment for the drinker: eighty lashes or forty?
The Shaykh:
The punishment for the drinker is for the judge to determine. You are not a judge. But the majority of scholars, and the practice of the Companions, who agreed upon it from the time of 'Umar ibn al-Khattab, is that it is eighty lashes.
It is eighty lashes, and this has become established. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Follow
my Sunnah and the Sunnah of the rightly guided Khulafa'
بسنتي وسنة الخلفاء الراشدين المهديينThe questioner:
And is it true that the prayer of the drinker of intoxicants is not accepted for forty days?
The Shaykh:
No. What was reported is that the habitual drinker of intoxicants, the one who persists in drinking and dies while persisting in it, does not enter Paradise. This is a warning. It does not mean that he is a disbeliever and that he will be eternally in the Fire. No, it means that this is a warning; he may be forbidden from entering Paradise at first, and be punished in the Fire, and then enter Paradise after that. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
Source
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