# Is drinking poison haram in Islam?

*Drinking poison is categorically haram: the preacher's inconsistency*

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/55/
- Date: 2021-02-16 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (3:10:59–3:14:34)
- Status: general teaching
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--PntsaR8ck&t=11459s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/

**Topics:** Intoxicants and substances; Responses to critics

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Drinking poison is categorically haram, he says, so it is inconsistent to call DMT haram while justifying publicly drinking poison.

**Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel):** Mufti Abu Layth says drinking poison is categorically haram in Islam, with no ifs or buts.

**Evidence, his words at 3:10:59:** “drinking poison is categorically haram in islam it is there's no ifs no but” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--PntsaR8ck&t=11459s)

## Longer summary

Mufti Abu Layth says it is hypocrisy for the preacher to declare these substances haram when he publicly, in a live video, drank poison and, when asked afterwards, said it is not haram if you know you will be okay. He says drinking poison is categorically haram in Islam, with no ifs or buts, that doing it live irresponsibly encourages young people, and that poison is far more harmful than weed, mushrooms or DMT, since its very essence is designed to kill and it has no other function. Thanking super chatters as he begins to wrap up, he says the preacher only speaks on DMT because Mufti has made videos saying it is not haram, while knowing little about it, and repeats his objection to justifying the public drinking of rat poison.

## Sources and names cited

- Shaykh Asrar Rashid [?]
- DMT

## Transcript (machine tier, 3:10:59–3:14:34)

[3:10:19] meditation would have a much longer lasting effect as opposed to a quick shortcut that is unquestionable also the fact that many religious people downplay these things because they feel it downplays religiosity and spirituality because if you if you admit that yes this is just a window into that then all their practice kind of amounts to nothing so there's a vested interest to kind of speak against these things the other thing i wanted to say is that in all honesty how can you know this is the hypocrisy how can sheikha seriously

[3:10:58] go live and declare these things to be haram when he publicly in a live video drank poison and then said drinking poison was not haram drinking poison is categorically haram in islam it is there's no ifs no but and if you can do that publicly live in a way to encourage people and irresponsibly encourage young people to do it just to somehow believe that this is a way to determine the truth i'm upon the heart let me drink poison

[3:11:36] and prove it to you people right if you can do that and then when questioned about it say no it's not haram if you believe you're gonna be okay this was his response it's still on his videos if you check when he his interview post poison drinking he says that he's asked is it is it haram now

[3:12:02] he says it's not haram if you know you're going to be okay how can you possibly declare poison to be not haram and dmt to be haram that is just stupid i mean poison is ridiculously much more harmful than any of these things than weed or then you know mushrooms or dmt it's you know ridiculously absurdly more dangerous so in fact the very essence of it is designed to kill

[3:12:40] it has no secondary essence drinking poison is just either you're gonna die or you're gonna suffer from internal bleedings or you're gonna get lucky there is no good to come out of this i mean it has no function except to harm i mean that is the absurdity so yeah so i saw this clip and i thought well i have to ow i thought i have to kind of go over that share my thoughts people i think we got to wrap this up it's been amazing

[3:13:17] um defense not design super chatted much love shook around for that um right yep i've answered all the others so people you've been shook and for your patience some of your questions today or maybe you know what maybe i've just had a long day i couldn't understand some of the questions you were asking um maybe that was just me but i genuinely couldn't uh ratvi saab just wants to wants to refute everything mufti says it is true you know he's only doing this dmt thing because you know

[3:13:56] i've done videos saying dmt is not haram and so you know he has to kind of speak on dmt but he doesn't even know what dmt is hasn't ever you know has i mean very uninitiated with the whole thing and speaking on it just making it haram but on matters like poison like bloody rat poison i mean for god's sake for the love of god rat poison publicly consuming rat poison and then justifying it by saying it's not haram if you know you're going to be okay i mean i don't know how you'll

[3:14:33] know that but if you feel you're gonna be okay it's okay it's just absurd it's absurd let's do dmt together we are all those who walk this path um mufti you said in surah baqarah that the two angels here refer to saint-like kings here does allah use similar metaphors in other parts of the quran yes of course

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment --PntsaR8ck/s/55. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/55/

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