The Ruling on Using Alcoholic Cologne
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The Shaykh:
There is nothing wrong with it. May Allah guide you.
The questioner:
What is the ruling on using cologne? The kind that is sold with alcohol.
The Shaykh:
It is obligatory not to use it; it is obligatory to leave it off and not use it, because it is a means to evil. Did we get to you? Does it become ritually impure? It does not become ritually impure. There is a disagreement that I followed. I say the majority hold that it becomes ritually impure; they are the majority. The other opinion is that it does not become ritually impure. Because when the graves were forbidden to the Companions, they poured out what they had in the markets. Some scholars argued, saying: When they poured it out in the markets, this is evidence that they considered it ritually impure. Allow me the hadith narrated by Abu Dawud. The drinker of alcohol and the one who sells it and the one who transports it. Correct, correct. The alcohol is cursed; Allah has cursed the alcohol, its drinker, its seller, and its transporter.
There is nothing wrong with it. May Allah guide you.
The questioner:
What is the ruling on using cologne? The kind that is sold with alcohol.
The Shaykh:
It is obligatory not to use it; it is obligatory to leave it off and not use it, because it is a means to evil. Did we get to you? Does it become ritually impure? It does not become ritually impure. There is a disagreement that I followed. I say the majority hold that it becomes ritually impure; they are the majority. The other opinion is that it does not become ritually impure. Because when the graves were forbidden to the Companions, they poured out what they had in the markets. Some scholars argued, saying: When they poured it out in the markets, this is evidence that they considered it ritually impure. Allow me the hadith narrated by Abu Dawud. The drinker of alcohol and the one who sells it and the one who transports it. Correct, correct. The alcohol is cursed; Allah has cursed the alcohol, its drinker, its seller, and its transporter.
Source
شرح بلوغ المرام [ ابن باز ] [ الشرح الجديد ]، تتمة باب حد السرقة — islamhouse.com (20:20)
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