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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The Impurity of Perfumes and Alcohol That Intoxicate

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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah preserve you, you mentioned that khamr (intoxicants) is impure according to the correct view. Does this mean that alcohol containing alcohol is impure, even though one of the properties of alcohol is that it evaporates with heat, so nothing remains of it when a person uses it?

Another questioner:
Likewise, the penalties without alcohol are very few, as is the correct way. Yes.

The Shaykh:
The criterion for the correct view is that if these perfumes intoxicate when drunk, they are impure because they are khamr. If they would intoxicate if drunk, they are khamr and impure. But if they do not intoxicate if drunk, they are not impure. So the criterion is intoxication, based on the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)
Whatever a lot of it intoxicates, a littleما أسكر كثيره فقليله
Jami` at-Tirmidhi 1865Hasan (Darussalam)
forbiddenحرام
. Or the criterion is intoxication. There are types of perfumes used for intoxication; these are forbidden and impure. And there are perfumes that do not contain intoxication; these are not impure, and they are permissible and pleasant. My father. It is known that in the world there are types of perfume that the open sinners use for intoxication, drinking them. These are undoubtedly not...

Another questioner:
The perfumes you make, we do not know about them whether they intoxicate or not?

The Shaykh:
Yes, if you do not know, the original state is purity. The original state is purity, and praise be to Allah. But previously, there were fatwas from the scholars of knowledge when cologne appeared, and they analyzed it and found that it intoxicates, so they ruled that it is impure. Cologne is a type of perfume. The result is that the criterion is intoxication: whatever of these perfumes intoxicates if drunk is impure, and whatever does not intoxicate is not impure. Yes.

Another questioner:
If the cologne evaporates, it does not become large. If a person evaporates the perfume on the repentance and it evaporates. Immediately. Does it become large or not?

The Shaykh:
The wounded one.

Another questioner:
The rest remains, the rest of this 'Asr (afternoon prayer).

The Shaykh:
They say that as long as the smell exists, the impurity remains. This is the smell of the impure perfume. If the one who is being sprayed intoxicates, then as long as its smell is present, it is impure.
Source شرح بلوغ المرام من أدلة الأحكام [ صالح الفوزان ]، تابع باب الآنية - 2 — islamhouse.com (39:38)

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