The Impurity of Intoxicants and Alcohol, and Cleaning the Streets
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner asks: Are intoxicants and alcohol considered ritually impure or not? Because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) did not order the Companions to clean the streets when they broke the vessel of intoxicants after it was forbidden?
Answer:
The default ruling for streets is purity, even if there is urine in them; the default is purity, and people walk with it. And there is hardship on people in the command to wash your feet. And the correct view is that intoxicants are ritually impure. His saying, the Exalted: “O[Al-Ma'idah 5:90]” means avoid intoxicants, which indicates that it is impure and must be avoided. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner asks: Are intoxicants and alcohol considered ritually impure or not? Because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) did not order the Companions to clean the streets when they broke the vessel of intoxicants after it was forbidden?
Answer:
The default ruling for streets is purity, even if there is urine in them; the default is purity, and people walk with it. And there is hardship on people in the command to wash your feet. And the correct view is that intoxicants are ritually impure. His saying, the Exalted: “O
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
إِنَّمَا الْخَمْرُ وَالْمَيْسِرُ وَالْأَنصَابُ وَالْأَزْلَامُ رِجْسٌ مِّنْ عَمَلِ الشَّيْطَانِ فَاجْتَنِبُوهُ
Source
شرح إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان لابن القيم، فصل ومن ذلك : أن الناس في عصر الصحابة والتابعين ومن بعدهم كانوا يأتون المساجد حفاة في الطين وغيره — islamhouse.com (57:04)
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