The Ruling on Contemporary Perfumes and Their Use
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, are contemporary perfumes ritually impure? What is the ruling on using them?
Answer:
The intoxicating kind is ritually impure; that which causes intoxication when drunk is ritually impure because it is khamr (intoxicants) and is ritually impure. As for that which does not cause intoxication when drunk, or that which is not ritually impure, the operative cause upon which the ruling is based is intoxication. So perfumes that cause intoxication when drunk are ritually impure, whereas perfumes that do not have this effect are not ritually impure.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, are contemporary perfumes ritually impure? What is the ruling on using them?
Answer:
The intoxicating kind is ritually impure; that which causes intoxication when drunk is ritually impure because it is khamr (intoxicants) and is ritually impure. As for that which does not cause intoxication when drunk, or that which is not ritually impure, the operative cause upon which the ruling is based is intoxication. So perfumes that cause intoxication when drunk are ritually impure, whereas perfumes that do not have this effect are not ritually impure.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 009 من 123 / شرح كتاب زاد المستقنع / الطهارة / التيمم / صالح الفوزان / الفقه / كبار العلماء — youtube.com (1:04:14)
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