The Ruling on Consuming Bairo and Suwayqah
Machine translationRead the Arabic original
Question:
Honorable Shaykh, what is the ruling on what is called bairo and suwayqah? They are placed in the mouth for a period of time so that one’s saliva is drawn out from time to time, and one takes comfort in this method, knowing that the one who consumes them uses them to help with his work?
Answer:
If they contain a stimulant, meaning they cause the body to become active and intoxicated, that is evidence of their impurity, so one should avoid them. As for suwayqah, as we hear, it is taken from tobacco and is made from tobacco and qat; they call it shammah or something similar. These are derivatives of the forbidden, so they are not permissible. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, what is the ruling on what is called bairo and suwayqah? They are placed in the mouth for a period of time so that one’s saliva is drawn out from time to time, and one takes comfort in this method, knowing that the one who consumes them uses them to help with his work?
Answer:
If they contain a stimulant, meaning they cause the body to become active and intoxicated, that is evidence of their impurity, so one should avoid them. As for suwayqah, as we hear, it is taken from tobacco and is made from tobacco and qat; they call it shammah or something similar. These are derivatives of the forbidden, so they are not permissible. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 146 من 175 /شرح بلوغ المرام/الحدود/حد الشارب وبيان المسكر/صالح الفوزان/الحديث/كبار العلماء — youtube.com (1:14:23)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.