Laziness in Seeking Knowledge and the Ruling on Using Perfumes

The questioner:
And Honorable Shaykh, may Allah preserve you, I love you for the sake of Allah, and I, O Shaykh, love seeking knowledge, but I am lazy, so I ask you to make du'a for me. Then I have some questions: What is the ruling on using some perfumes that?

The Shaykh:
And that he loves seeking knowledge, that is good. We ask Allah to increase him in his love for seeking knowledge. As for laziness, that is not an excuse. He should abandon laziness, rely on Allah, and seek knowledge according to his ability. He should strive, and Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, will help him in that. As for making excuses with laziness, that is not an excuse. If people were to obey their laziness, they would never do anything at all. But one must overcome the self, and one must be patient with fatigue. When a person knows that he is on a good path, and in the pursuit of knowledge, the fatigue becomes easy for him, because he is rewarded for it.

The questioner:
He says: What is the ruling on using some perfumes that are produced in the market, and it is common among people to say that these may contain alcohol, but nothing has been established regarding that. So what is the ruling on using them, especially for a student of knowledge?

The Shaykh:
The default ruling for perfume is that it is permissible, and praise be to Allah. The default for perfumes is that they are permissible because they are among the good things. Except if it is established that this perfume contains some alcohol, meaning from wine. If this is established, then it is forbidden. But as long as it is not established, and it is merely rumors or possibilities, the default is permissibility, and praise be to Allah. Yes.