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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The Authenticity of the Hadith: (Whoever drinks intoxicants in this world, then dies while addicted to them, without repenting from them, will not drink them in the Hereafter)?

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Eid Abbasi : First: The authenticity of the hadith:
Whoever drinks intoxicants in this world and does not repent will not drink them مَن شرب الخمر في الدنيا ولم يتب لم يشربها
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The Shaykh : As for the hadith, it is authentic. The drinker of intoxicants, if he does not repent from drinking intoxicants and dies a Muslim, will undoubtedly enter Paradise, but after a period of suffering, after the punishment he deserves according to his lewdness and open sinfulness in his drinking of intoxicants and other sins. When he is purified from the filth of sins and transgressions, he becomes eligible to enter Paradise. For there is a rule that every Muslim must always remember, forever: No one who testifies that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah will remain in the Fire, no matter how short he may have come in his deeds. What saves one from remaining in the Fire is faith, while sins do not cause one to remain in the Fire; they cause one to remain in the Fire for ten years, fifty years, two hundred years, a century, two centuries, and so on. Allah is All-Knowing, but in the end, the divine command comes:
Whoever had the weight of a speck of faith in his heart will depart from the Fire. أخرجوا من النار مَن كان في قلبه مثقال ذرَّة من إيمان
Jami` at-Tirmidhi 2598Sahih (Darussalam)
. So the drinker of intoxicants, if he dies, will enter Paradise one day, without a doubt. However, the drinker of intoxicants and the wearer of silk has a type of [state] that it is not correct to call a punishment; rather, it is a treatment regarding the rank in Paradise and the reward he deserves.
It is established in Islam that people in Paradise have varying degrees. Some of them look at those above them among the people of Paradise as one of us on earth looks at a star in the sky. So this difference in Paradise is undoubtedly a result of the good or bad deeds of a person. The more one increases in good deeds, the higher and more elevated one becomes in Paradise.
... Among the blessings of Paradise is drinking intoxicants, but he does not obtain this blessing because he hastened to this good thing in Paradise by seeking it in this world while it is forbidden. He hastened to it, so it was part of the wisdom of Allah (Mighty and Majestic) that He deprive him of it in Paradise. Likewise, the one who wears silk or gold in this world, but this does not cause him regret; because the other blessings he is surrounded by are too numerous to be counted and enumerated. So this blessing that he was deprived of due to his persistence in drinking intoxicants in this world almost becomes, or this prohibition becomes, a forgotten matter.
Often here there is a question that says: What is the wisdom behind its existence in the Hereafter?
If the questioner remembered that the nature of intoxicants in the Hereafter is different from its nature in this world, he would not have felt the need for such a question. For the nature of intoxicants in Paradise is that it contains no intoxication, no sin, no headache, or anything of that sort. Rather, it is a delicious drink that the people of Paradise enjoy among the things they enjoy.
As for his statement: Does a person enter Paradise and be deprived of some of its foods and drinks? We have answered that, and praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds.
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