Guidance for one whose brother drinks intoxicants
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Question:
The questioner from the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, (N. S.), says: I have a brother—may Allah protect us from that—who consumes intoxicants. Every time he stays away from this drinking for two months, or six months, he returns to it?
Answer:
We advise you to take care of him, to advise him, to guide him to what is good, and to be concerned for him. He should not sit with the people who drink intoxicants; he should stay away from them and be with the righteous. Indeed, intoxicants are abominable, and they are among the great evils and among the major sins. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: It is abominable. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Sahih Ibn Hibban 22:16 So it is among the great evils and among the abominable major sins.
It is obligatory for you to advise him constantly and to strive to keep him away from intoxicants, so that perhaps Allah will guide him. If he is in a country that enforces the hudud (fixed Qur'anic punishments), the hudud must be carried out on him according to the Shari'ah, which is: eighty lashes. Whoever does this; the flogging is carried out on him.
It came in some hadiths that if he drinks intoxicants for the fourth time, he is killed. The wali al-amr (the one in authority) kills him, the wali al-amr of the Muslims through the Shari'ah courts. But in any case, this is a matter of khilaf (scholarly disagreement) among the scholars.
It is obligatory to carry out the hudud on him: eighty lashes every time. As for what concerns killing, this is left to the rulers and to the Shari'ah courts. Yes.
The questioner from the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, (N. S.), says: I have a brother—may Allah protect us from that—who consumes intoxicants. Every time he stays away from this drinking for two months, or six months, he returns to it?
Answer:
We advise you to take care of him, to advise him, to guide him to what is good, and to be concerned for him. He should not sit with the people who drink intoxicants; he should stay away from them and be with the righteous. Indeed, intoxicants are abominable, and they are among the great evils and among the major sins. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
Cursed are intoxicants, and its drinker, and its server, and its carrier, and the one to whom it is carried, and its presser, and its presser, and its seller, and the one who eats its price
لعن الخمر، وشاربها، وساقيها، وحاملها، والمحمولة إليه، وعاصرها، ومعتصرها، وبائعها، وآكل ثمنهاHe does not drink intoxicants when he drinks them while he is a believer, and the fornicator does not commit fornication when he commits it while he is a believer
لا يشرب الخمر حين يشربها وهو مؤمن، ولا يزني الزاني حين يزني وهو مؤمنIt is obligatory for you to advise him constantly and to strive to keep him away from intoxicants, so that perhaps Allah will guide him. If he is in a country that enforces the hudud (fixed Qur'anic punishments), the hudud must be carried out on him according to the Shari'ah, which is: eighty lashes. Whoever does this; the flogging is carried out on him.
It came in some hadiths that if he drinks intoxicants for the fourth time, he is killed. The wali al-amr (the one in authority) kills him, the wali al-amr of the Muslims through the Shari'ah courts. But in any case, this is a matter of khilaf (scholarly disagreement) among the scholars.
It is obligatory to carry out the hudud on him: eighty lashes every time. As for what concerns killing, this is left to the rulers and to the Shari'ah courts. Yes.
Source
binbaz.org.sa
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