Is it halal or haram to drink alcohol in medicines?

Assalamwalaykum, my ques. is many medicines contains alcohol like cough syrup, is it halal or haram?

Answer:

(Fatwa: 649/649/M=1431)

Use of alcohol prepared from haram ingredients is unlawful, but usually in India alcohol is prepared from lawful ingredients; therefore it is not haram. And the use of medicine which contains such alcohol is also not unlawful.

Allah (Subhana Wa Ta’ala) knows Best

Darul Ifta,
Darul Uloom Deoband

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