I would like to ask u that beer is haram. one of my friends told me that it is good for health.
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would like to ask u that beer is haram. one of my friends told me that it is
good for health, like it cleans the kidney stones, purifies blood, and good for
skin. Is it right, Please help me.
Thanks
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Answer:
Prohibition of alcohol
In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His help and ask
for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever
He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We bear witness that
there is none worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that
Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 2 Surah
Baqarah verse 219:
219 They ask thee (O Prophet (saws)) concerning (the ruling of) wine and
gambling. Say: "In them is
great sin and some profit for men; but the sin is greater than the
profit."
Although arguable but only for arguments sake, even if one
were to assume that your friend’s opinion regarding the consumption of the
intoxicant ‘beer’ being good for one’s health is accurate …… Allah Subhanah has
Himself declared that although there might be a little gain or good in the
consumption of intoxicants, the evil and the sin of its consumption is much
much greater than any gain or good which it might be able to derive! Thus Allah and His Messenger (saws) have
categorically declared the consumption of any type of intoxicant as absolutely
forbidden for the believers who sincerely fear Allah and the Last Day.
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 5 Surah
Maidah verses 90-91:
O you who have believed! ‘Khamr’ (all types of intoxicants), games of chance, idols,
and divining arrows are all abominable works of Shaitaan; therefore,
stay (far) away from these so that you may attain success. Indeed,
Shaitaan seeks to sow enmity and hatred among you by means of ‘khamr’
(intoxicants) and gambling, and to
prevent you from the Remembrance of Allah and from Salaah. Will you not, then,
abstain from these things?
Sunan of Abu-Dawood Hadith 3679 Narrated by Aisha
I heard the Messenger of Allah (saws)
say: “Every intoxicant is haraam; if a quantity of anything causes intoxication, a handful of it is (also) haraam.”
Al-Tirmidhi Hadith 2776 Narrated by Anas ibn Malik
Allah's Messenger (saws) invoked the curse of
Allah on ten people in connection with wine: the wine-presser, the one who has
it pressed, the one who drinks it, the one who conveys it, the one to whom it
is conveyed, the one who serves it, the one who sells it, the one who benefits
from the price paid for it, the one who buys it, and the one for whom it is
bought.
Sahih Muslim Hadith 4962 Narrated by Jabir ibn Abdullah
Allah's Messenger (saws) said: “Every intoxicant is haraam! Verily Allah, the Exalted and Majestic, made
a covenant to those who drank intoxicants to make them drink ‘Tinat al-Khabal’. The companions asked: “Allah's
Messenger, what is Tinat al-Khabal?’ He (saws)
said: “It is the sweat of the
denizens of Hell, or the discharge of
the denizens of Hell.”
Al-Tirmidhi Hadith 3653 Narrated by Abdullah ibn Amr
The Prophet (saws) said, "An undutiful
son, a gambler, one who casts up what he has given, and one who is addicted to
wine will not enter
Without an iota of a doubt, the consumption of the drink
beer which has an alcohol content, intoxicates….and the consumption of every
single type of intoxication is absolutely forbidden and declared categorically
‘haraam’ in Islam.
Sunan of Abu-Dawood Hadith 3679 Narrated by Aisha
I heard the Messenger of Allah (saws)
say: “Every intoxicant is
haraam; if a quantity of anything causes
intoxication, a handful of it is (also)
haraam.”
If one trusts, obeys, and follows the guidance and
commands of Allah and His Messenger (saws),
one can be assured of never ever being misled; but if one believes, obeys and follows any
other guidance, other than that of Allah and His Messenger (saws), one can be
assured of being led astray.
Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only due to
Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me alone. Allah Alone Knows Best and He is the Only
Source of Strength.
Your brother and
well wisher in Islam,
Burhan