Q: 1. Someone told me that they don’t think entering a club is haraam if you not drinking and smoking there and I must show them where in the Qur’an its wrong to have fun.
2. Someone said they will buy meat that does not have an halaal sticker on because all meat is slaughtered with the purpose of eating and its not like they buying pork so why must they buy meat by only halaal places
3. The same person said that if Khamr (intoxicating substances, alcohol) was made haraam because it takes away your sanity then they don’t think its haraam if you drink an amount that doesn’t intoxicate you or if its an ingredient in cake, bread etc.
A: 1. Allah speaks in Quraan of the true believers ” and those who do not witness acts of futility “if it is the quality of the believers not to. Witness futility then what can we say about witnessing acts such as dancing, music, consumption of alcohol, intermingling of sexes and gyrating of semi nude bodies.
2. It is understood from sunnah all meat is haraam until it is slaughtered by a Muslim or people of the book whilst taking the name of Allah. So in short until it is not reliabily learnt that the original impermissibilty is removed the status quo of impermissibilty will prevail.
3. Sunnah is our sole source of sharia and not logic, hence we subject our logic to sharia abd not vice versa. Sharia has cleared showed us that “khamar whether in large quantities or small quantities both are haraam.” Hence in the presence of clear textual evidences we put our logic aside and accept the textual evidences.
Aadiel Moosagie (Mufti)
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