Alcohol (7):

Q1: A Muslim enters a café and sits down at a table to drink tea, then a stranger comes at the same table to drink wine. Is it obligatory upon the Muslim to stop drinking tea and leave the store? Or he can just change the table and continue drinking his tea?

A: He does not have to leave the store. There is no doubt that changing the table - in this particular situation - is allowed.

Q2: If I am sitting on a place in the cafe and a person sitting with me with wine or beer. It is permissible to go away from the place because he have alcoholic drink?

A: You should not use same dinning table with an alcohol drinker. If you and that person are dining separately - like using separate trays - but using the same table or happening to be in the same place then it is no obligatory to avoid the table..

Q3: What is your order about using perfume containing alcohol?

A: It is allowed to be used but it is Najis - impure and when it comes in contact it must be purified before performing prayers and tewaf.

Q4: I am currently being accepted in the position of a manager in a supermarket that sells alcohol. If there is no staff, I might have to work as a cashier and people might be purchasing alcohol. Am I allowed to work in this company?

A: It is prohibited to sell wine even indirectly by acting behalf of the company.

Q5: Is my prayer valid if the perfume that includes alcohol just touches your clothes?

A: Alcohol is impure - Najis if it causes intoxication and the prayers is void when the clothes become impure with alcohol or any other kind of impurity. Yes, if the person does not know that Alcohol is impure, then the prayer is valid.

Q6: What is your ruling about synthetic alcohol used in creams, shower bath, shampoos. Is it najis?

A: If Alcohol cause intoxication then it is considered to be impure – Najis regardless whether it is synthetic or not.

Q7: Is working in a supermarket where alcohol is sold haram?

A: If it does not lead to sell alcohol, then it is permissible.