Alcohol

[Somalia 4 Life]

Dear SOL members.

I'm new here and I enjoyed reading about some of the positive feed backs ya’ll give each other and the constructive criticism when it comes to advice. Now I need help with my question and hopefully you members can help me. Well I love to cook its one of my favorite things to do however when I cook some of my best dish I like to heat it with “alcohol†I do know that alcohol is forbidden but I also know that alcohol evaporates with heat therefore its not toxic from what I know so far but is there actually a verse in the Quran that states it’s haram and we should not be cooking with alcohol at all times.

Thank you for your time I sincerely appreciate it Asc Wr Wb All

[Nur]

Dear Somalia For Life (in Jannah)

 

Alcohol was forbidden for the protection of the human mind, the mind is where our perception of abstract concepts is formed, so it is ultimate purpose is to seek its maker, know Him and drive the person to worship Allah, if the mind is adultered with intoxicants, it will fail in that purpose.

 

Cooking food with wine is a culinary recipe follwed by great cooks, usually wine gives the food a flavor, but the alcohol like you said evaborates upon heating, residual flavor of wine is not forbidden, its just like vinigar, however you must make sure that ALL of the alcohol has indeed evaborated, anything that intoxicates in large amounts, is haraam, even if you take a very small amount.

 

Nur

[Khayr]

Does Cooking Purify?

 

 

 

As for cooking with alcohol that is a liquid intoxicant, since the alcohol

in food evaporates upon cooking, one might imagine that that removes the filth.

In reality, even though there may remain no body of the alcohol in the food,

the food is filthified upon contact with it and is not purified by the evaporation

of the alcohol, but only by being washed.

Source

 

if you mean that one can use alcohol because it burns away; even if

that may be the case, which is by no means certain, it is still haram.

The

reason is that, in the moment of contact with the alcohol, the food would

become Najis and therefore haram to eat. This is the same if any Najasat, eg

a drop of blood from a cut, enters the food

Source

[Cara.]

Not all of the alcohol will boil away, in any case, unless you intend to flambe for hours.

 

Fruit juices and bread contain trace amounts of alcohol, and in some parts of Arabia, "non-alcoholic beers" are considered halal, though they may contain small amounts of ethanol. The rule Nur mentions is probably not realistic at some level. You can probably get a buzz from eating a few loaves of bread.

[Nur]

Cara

 

You write

 

You can probably get a buzz from eating a few loaves of bread.

 

 

Just the advice some challenged Nomads need!

 

By the way, the principle I wrote is an Islamid Fiqh ( Jurisprudence) clause, supported by Sunnah, its not my idea.

 

Peace

 

 

Nur

[S.O.S]

a/c,

Yes of course, alcohol has a low cooking temperature and therefore will evaporate... however, in order to use wine for aromatic purposes, don't you have to buy it first? ..and doesn't buying it necessitate carrying and eventually selling of alcoholic goods in that trade? :confused:

 

Well, we as Muslims are not allowed to buy, carry or sell any alcoholic drinks (read the books of Bukhari, Muslim, etc.)

 

That's why Allah (swt) explained to us that:

"...the sin is greater than the profit..." (Quran 2:219)

 

w/s