Alcohol is twahara.?.Scholars have disagreed about the judgment of alcohol in two statements: First statement: Alcohol is unclean.This is the direction of the Islamic Republic including the four Imams. The Shaykh of Islam is in this group. And their argument is His Word Subhaanah: ((((يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُواْ إِنَّمَا الْخَمْرُ وَالْمَيْسِرُ وَالأَنصَابُ وَالأَزْلاَمُ رِجْسٌ مِّنْ عَمَلِ الشَّيْطَانِ فَاجْتَنِبُوهُ لَعَلَّكُمْ تُفْلِحُونَ ))).

                                                                                                                          

Scholars have disagreed about the judgment of alcohol in two statements:

 

First statement:

 

Alcohol is unclean.

This is the direction of the Islamic Republic including the four Imams. The Shaykh of Islam is in this group. And their argument is His Word Subhaanah:

 

((((يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُواْ إِنَّمَا الْخَمْرُ وَالْمَيْسِرُ وَالأَنصَابُ وَالأَزْلاَمُ رِجْسٌ مِّنْ عَمَلِ الشَّيْطَانِ فَاجْتَنِبُوهُ لَعَلَّكُمْ تُفْلِحُونَ ))).

(O believers! Of course, drunkenness, gambling, idolatry and gambling, are filth in the shaytwaan's work. So avoid that in order to succeed). [Al Maaidah 5:90].

They say that the "rijsu" pollution is unclean, and, therefore, they have judged that alcohol itself is an emotional waste.

 

Second statement:

 

Alcohol is twahara.

This community has said to Rab-y'a, Al-Layth, Al-Muzany and other good men. And it's been reinforced by Ash-Shawkaany, As Swan-'aaniy, Ahmad Shaakir and Al-Albaaniy (Allaah Awarehem). This statement is most powerful for the following symptoms:

 

1- It is a fact that in Aayah there is no indication of the alcohol content. And this is in the following ways:

 

(a) It is that the word "rijsu" is in synonyms, since it has different meanings. [See Ibn Al-Athyr's An-Nihaaya book with Lisaan Al-'Arab, Mukhtaar As-Swihaah and various Tafsiyr]. Among those meanings are the filthy thing, the forbidden thing, the evil thing, the punishment, the curse, the infidelity, the cruelty, the sin, the evil and so forth.

 

(b) It is that "we have not found" or discovered the statement of any translator who translated "Ar-Rijsu" in this Aayah in the sense of ignorance, but Ibn 'Abbaas has said that "Ar-Rijsu" is angry, while Ibn Zayd has said that "Ar -Rijsu ”is cruel.

 

(c) That the word "rijsu", apart from this Aayah, has come up in the Book of Allaah in three places, and nowhere else does "rijsu" mean najsi. In His Word Subhaanah:

((كَذَلِكَ يَجْعَلُ اللّهُ الرِّجْسَ عَلَى الَّذِينَ لاَ يُؤْمِنُون))

That is how Allaah prays defilement (and punishment) on those who do not believe. [Al-An'aam: 125]

… The word "Ar-Rijsu" here, which means punishment.

And in His word Subhaanah about hypocrites:

إِنَّهُمْ رِجْسٌ ۖ وَمَأْوَاهُمْ جَهَنَّمُ

surely they are unclean, and their abode is Hell. It is full of what they have been earning. [At-Tawbah: 95]

 

The intent is that their actions are dirty, that is, bad.

 

And in His Word Subhaanah:

((فَاجْتَنِبُوا الرِّجْسَ مِنَ الْأَوْثَانِ))

So abstain from the filth of (worship) idols [Al-Hajj: 30]

 

The statues are called filth because it is itself the cause of habitation and punishment, and the purpose is not a defilement, for the stones themselves and the statues are not unclean.

(d) And when it was discovered in Aayah that alcohol coincided with statues and archery, that was a metaphor that would remove the meaning of impurity into non-christian contamination. And this is the case in his Subhaanah Statement:

((إِنَّمَا الْمُشْرِكُونَ نَجَسٌ))

(The polytheists are naughty). [At Tawbah (9:28)]

 

..when there came the correct indications that prove that the bodies of the superstitious are not pure.

 

 

(e) That it is illegal to drink alcohol, it is not considered impure, since we consider it illegal to wear silk and gold even though it is a virtue, as a matter of urgency, and by mutual agreement.

 

(f) That the word "Ar-Rijsu" in Aayah is specified (muqayyad) to be included in (shaytwaan's work). It is therefore a practical impurity, in the sense that it is something evil or forbidden or sinful, and not the essence of the essence of making these things unclean.

 

2- And among the evidence on the prevalence of alcohol is Anas mentioned in the case of alcohol abuse. He says: "... And Rasul (Swalla Allaahu 'sallam alayhi wa sallam) ordered the guardian to proclaim: Know that alcohol is forbidden, ...". He said: "I went forth and poured it out, and it flowed on the streets of Madiynah" [Swahiyh Al-Bukhaariy (2332), and Muslim (1980)].

 

 

3- And in the case of a man who had two barrels of alcohol

 

((... and Nabiy (Swalla Allaahu 'sallam al-salah) said: (Indeed Allaah who made it easy to drink, has forbidden to sell it). and Muslim, by Maikik (1543)].

 

And if the elephant had been defiled, then Rasuli (Swalla Allaahu 'sallam alayhi) would have ordered it to pour water on the ground to destroy it as he had commanded to pour water over the urine, and he would have ordered it to protect it.

 

4- That its origin is a joke, and it does not speak of that joke but the correct narrator. And since there is no indication of its defilement, alcohol remains in its natural state.