Alcohol (6):

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 permissable 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 mandatory to leave 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 the part of the body that touches it must be purified before performing prayers.

Q4: In Korean and Japanese cuisines(food items) a lot of times the food is fermented e.g in Korea radish is mixed with sugar , salt and a few more halal ingredients and kept for a night or so in order to ferment.
Is it allowed to prepare a dish like that and eat food fermented in this way?

A: If the said food cause its consumer to be drunken then it is prohibited to consume otherwise it is permissible.

Q5: 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.

Q6: is my prayer valid if the perfume that includes alcohol just touches your clothes?

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