Is alcohol ritually impure or ritually pure?
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The Shaykh : We remind the many women, contrary to the practice in many Arab countries, that abundant wealth makes things easy for a person. I advise you, and I forbid you from alcohol, after this introduction and this preamble. Alcohol is... if we know this fact, and that khamr (intoxicants) is from alcohol, and were it not for alcohol, it would not be khamr, as came in some reports, then alcohol is the mother of all evils, the known khamr of old, from which alcohol is extracted.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : It is beyond being forbidden; this ruling, the same two rulings, they transfer... So it does not become ritually impure, but... and that is in His saying—Blessed and Exalted is He—:[Al-Ma'idah 5:2] [Al-Ma'idah 5:2]: meaning any means that leads to disobedience to Allah. This came as a detail for this Qur'anic rule, for example, and this is also... the thing with the thing.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : It is beyond being forbidden; this ruling, the same two rulings, they transfer... So it does not become ritually impure, but... and that is in His saying—Blessed and Exalted is He—:
And cooperate in righteousness and piety, but do not cooperate in sin and aggression.
وَتَعَاوَنُوا عَلَى الْبِرِّ وَالتَّقْوَى وَلَا تَعَاوَنُوا عَلَى الْإِثْمِ وَالْعُدْوَانِbut do not cooperate in sin and aggression
وَلَا تَعَاوَنُوا عَلَى الْإِثْمِ وَالْعُدْوَانِ
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