Miftah-ul-Janna (Booklet for way to Paradise)

Islam,) and it incurs the severest torment (in the Hereafter) when
neglected. Hence, a person who prevents them and all other
Muslims from learning their religion and from practising their acts
of worship by having recourse to persecution and stratagems is an
unbeliever and an enemy of Islam. An example of this is bid’at
holders’ and lâ-madhhabî people’s defiling the belief of Ahl assunnat
and misguiding Muslims out of Islam and îmân by way of
subversive speeches and pulications.]
51– Not to attribute partners to Allâhu ’adhîm-ush-shân.
52– To avoid fornication.
53– Not to consume wine and other alcoholic beverages.
54– Not to perjure yourself.
[Wine and Spirit and all other alcoholic beverages are qaba
najâsat, (one of the two kinds of najâsat defined and explained in
detail in the sixth chapter of the fourth fascicle of Endless Bliss.) It
is written in the books entitled Bahr-ur-râiq and Ibni ’Âbidîn that
when water and earth are mixed with each other the resultant mud
will be clean when one of the two ingredients is clean, that this
qawl is a sahîh one, and that the conclusive fatwâ is agreeable with
this ijtihâd. Although there are scholars who argue that that fatwâ
is a da’îf one, it is writen in ’Ibni ’Âbidîn and in Hadîqa that a da’îf
qawl may be acted upon when there is haraj (difficulty). Hence, if
the substances mixed with alcohol to obtain purposive materials
such as eau-de-colgone, varnish, alcoholic medicines and dyes are
clean, the mixtures also will be clean. It is written in the
commentary (made by Suleymhan bin ’Abdullah Shi’rîdî
‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ ’alaih’ to Molla Halîl Shi’rîdî’s ‘rahmatullâhi
ta’âlâ ’alaih book entitled al-Ma’fuwât that that rule applies in the
Shâfi’î Madhhab as well. They will not prevent namâz (from being
sahîh) if there is haraj in cleaning them. Theoretically clean as
these liquids are on account of haraj (in cleaning them), it is not
permissible to drink them unless there is a darûrat to do so.
Alcoholic beverages are never clean. For, the alcohol in these
beverages have been mixed with other substances not for the
purpose of satisfying a need but for pleasure. Anything smeared
with them becomes najs as well. It is always harâm to drink them
without a darûrat.]
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