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Alcohol & Intoxicants — Detailed Rulings

INTENSITY MARKERS:
[M] = Fard / Wajib (Obligatory — must do)  |  [1] = Sunnah Mu'akkadah / Highly Recommended  |  [2] = Sunnah / Recommended  |  [3] = Mustahab / Virtuous / Commendable  |  [H] = Haram (Forbidden — must not do)  |  [h] = Makruh (Discouraged — should not do)  |  [P] = Mubah (Permissible — neutral)

✅ What to Do

[1]Avoid selling, buying, carrying, or serving alcohol.
[1]Pour away alcohol if you come across it. (Muslim 3735)
[M]Avoid all intoxicants in any quantity — even a drop. (Qur'an 5:90)
[M]Avoid sitting with people who drink alcohol. (Qur'an 4:140)

🚫 What Not to Do

What to Do ↑ As You Wish ↓
[H]Drink alcohol — the Prophet cursed the drinker, server, seller, buyer, maker, carrier, and receiver. (Tirmidhi 1296)
[H]Make or sell alcohol.
[H]Use drugs or intoxicants — all intoxicants are khamr and thus haram. (Muslim 3735)
[h]Use intoxicating amounts of halal substances.

⭐ As You Wish

What to Do ↑ What Not to Do ↑
[P]Has there come to you the news of the Overwhelming? — Reflect on the overwhelming event (Al-Ghashiyah) (Quran 88:1-7) [bg:Revealed in Mecca describing the overwhelming event (al-ghashiyah) of the Day of Judgment — faces humbled and faces joyful. The surah calls the Quraysh to reflect on the creation of the camel, the sky, the mountains, and the earth. The Prophet is commanded to remind, for he is not a controller over them. Revealed in the Meccan period asking: 'Has there come to you the news of the overwhelming (al-Ghashiyah)?' — describing the faces on that Day: some humiliated, laboring, weary, burning in hot fire, drinking from a boiling spring, with no food except bitter thorn. This was revealed as a vivid warning to the Quraysh about the reality of Hell.]
[P]Use honey as a healing remedy (Quran 16:69; Bukhari 5684) [bg:Revealed in Mecca (some ayahs revealed during the migration to Medina) refuting the polytheists' practice of dedicating portions of livestock to their idols. The surah details Allah's blessings in creation — the bee, the heavens, the earth — as signs of His power. The ayah on honey as healing (16:69) is a sign of natural medicine. Revealed in Mecca describing the bee: 'There emerges from their bellies a drink of varying colors in which there is healing for people.' This ayah points to honey as a healing substance (shifa), revealed to the Arabs who used honey as medicine. Classical scholars like Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya expanded on this as a basis for prophetic medicine (al-tibb al-nabawi).]

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