# Is alcohol under forty percent permissible, as a Pakistani mufti reportedly said? *Masala segment: Mufti Abdul Qavi's reported fatwa that alcohol under forty percent is permissible* - URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/er1bdjdv0l0/s/1/ - Date: 2020-06-29 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Masala Segment: Mufti Abdul Qavi & Alcohol | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–4:40) - Status: general teaching - Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR1bDjDv0l0&t=0s - Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/er1bdjdv0l0/ **Topics:** Intoxicants and substances; Views on contemporary scholars; Pakistan **Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Mufti Abu Layth says he cannot tell what the mufti meant: forty percent strength would be ridiculous, a diluted drink might rest on the Hanafi view on nabidh, and the cigarette analogy made no sense to him. He wants to hear the mufti's explanation before judging. ## Longer summary In what he calls the masala segment, Mufti Abu Layth turns to Mufti Abdul Qavi of Pakistan, recalling that he was previously caught up in public controversy around Qandeel Baloch, whose murder Mufti calls an atrocious injustice, while noting that the mufti had nothing to do with it, and in a later reported scandal with an actress. He says that in the clip under discussion the mufti is reported to have said that alcohol up to forty percent is permissible, and that he is not sure what is meant: if forty percent alcohol strength, that would be ridiculous, since it would cover spirits; or whether it means a proportion mixed with another drink such as tonic or cola; and the mufti's phrase about something from minerals [?] is also unclear to him. He suspects the ruling is based on the Hanafi fatwa on nabidh [?], says he wants to hear an explanation, and says the closing analogy that if cigarettes are allowed then this is allowed made no sense to him. Searching for an explanation, he found only an interview in which the anchor pressed the mufti about the scandals, where he also seemed to accept mut'ah [?], which Mufti says he himself does not believe permissible either. He notes that Mufti Abdul Qavi has been a prominent mufti in Pakistan who has held leading positions in councils such as the moon-sighting committee [?]. The clip itself is not audible in the transcript and is known only through Mufti's description. ## Sources and names cited - Mufti Abdul Qavi - Qandeel Baloch - nabidh - Hanafi school - mut'ah (temporary marriage) [?] - Ruet-e-Hilal (moon-sighting) committee, Pakistan [?] ## Transcript (machine tier, 0:00–4:40) [0:00] speaking of alcohol we've got here people people the masala segment the [0:36] masala segment so Mufti Abdel Kavi Saab who is from Pakistan I know he was previously involved in the in the kind of scandals with candle Baloch who I think it was a great injustice what was an atrocious injustice what happened you know I came stir and she was murdered but not that most eSAB had anything to do with that but I know he was involved there was kind of scandalized because he was sitting with her chilling with a [1:13] certain times and so and then there was another I think she's an actress or a celebrity from Pakistan and he was there was some scandal about him and her some discussion of Mika and then I think he said short term knickers are allowed anybody else say that right so now most easily Saab has said in that clip that alcohol if it's up to 40% under that is [1:51] permissible I'm not sure I'm not sure you see I want to know more about what he's saying yeah 40% alcohol strength is that what he's saying that that's ridiculous and I would be spirits and every I don't know if that's what he's saying is that why saying or is he saying 40 mix it in with another mixer like a tonic is that what he's saying or I I'm not quite sure and he said well if it was from Madden yet and I'm not sure what he means by that because Madden yet is what my minerals and things like this if it's from he says even if it's a [2:31] hundred percent so I'm not quite sure I don't think he's speaking about the alcohol level is he speaking about the percentage of the quantity when mixed with another drink so if it's like mixed with coke nasha Barbican nasha Berta hey Jeb shabu-shabu minute but move this up I mix this one [3:10] with that one and I think what he's basing this on is he's basing this on the Hanafi fatwa I think of Nabil this is I understand this is what he's but I want to hear an explanation I'm like and he's saying well because I didn't get the analogy at the end that if cigarettes are okay then this is okay I didn't get that analogy because that totally didn't make any sense I tried to find an explanation on youtube but then I just ended up finding [3:50] an interview where this this lady's this the anchor is really going in at him for the scandals not for this though but she does mention about nickel or Mota and he seems to have said that's fine but mind you I don't believe motifs from either but I was quite intrigued Liberty shut up for a big week of apartheid you know it's one of those so since most abduct a visa and he's been a prominent mufti in Pakistan he's been at the head of leading figure in several [4:29] councils the little healer you know to do with Ramadan and he's been like in leading positions as far as I'm aware on things like that ## Cite Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment eR1bDjDv0l0/s/1. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/er1bdjdv0l0/s/1/ Not a fatwa: these answers were given to specific people at specific times. 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