Is White wine vinegar prohibited?
Mu' meneen Brothers
and Sisters,
As Salaam Aleikum wa
Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh. (May Allah's Peace, Mercy and Blessings be
upon all of you)
One of our
brothers/sisters has asked this question:
Assalamu alaikum
Could you please advice whether one is allowed to eat the food whoch contains
white wine vinegar although the label indicates suitable for vegetarians. May
Allah reward you. jazakhallah khair
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Mu' meneen Brothers
and Sisters,
As Salaam Aleikum wa
Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh. (May Allah's Peace, Mercy and Blessings be
upon all of you)
One of our
brothers/sisters has asked this question:
is it permissable
to have food that has wine, for example sauces (which has a very small content
of wine as its ingredients) which can be put in food while cooking, it is said
that it is like spirit and evaporates quickly so when the food is ready, the
wine isnt there, but i believe that though evoporated, it still becomes part of
food and if it eveporates why add it to your food in the first place. Please
enlighten me as to what i think is correct or not.
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Answer:
Is White wine vinegar
prohibited?
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 no one (no idol,
no person, no grave, no
prophet, no imam, no dai,
nobody!) 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 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 3672 Narrated by Abdullah Ibn
Abbas
The Messenger of
Allah (saws) said: “Every intoxicant is khamr (alcohol, wine, etc.), and every intoxicant is haraam.”
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.”
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.”
Allah and His Messenger (saws)
have declared every type of intoxicant haraam;
and if a large quantity of something intoxicates, even a handful of it will be considered
haraam.
The product being labeled
vegetarian or the alcohol evaporating when cooked does not make a thing that is
declared haraam by Allah and His Messenger (saws) as halaal! All types of intoxicants, whether in large or minute quantity will be
considered haraam for the believers to consume.
Whatever written of Truth and
benefit is only due to Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error
is of me. Allah Alone Knows Best and He
is the Only Source of Strength.
Your Brother in
Islam,
Burhan