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What is the verdict on attending gatherings or meetings or office parties where there is alcohol?

Wama? where there is alcohol. the consumption of alcohol is something that we all know is completely forbidden.

The consumption of alcohol is something that we all know is completely forbidden in our religion.

Our Prophet-Sala, who Ali-Salle-Sallem, has called it the mother of all evil or the source of all evil,

and it is a tool of Shaitan. We all know that in this country

one of the leading causes of liver cancer, heart disease, even other types of cancer, in fact almost a hundred thousand

deaths in North America alone is because directly of alcohol and it is one of the

leading causes of preventable death in this country by the way, one of the leading causes of preventable death in this country by the way.

One of the leading causes of preventable death is the consumption of alcohol.

Its harms are well known.

And it is because of this that the Sharia has not just forbidden drinking alcohol.

The Sharia is also forbidden anything related to it.

Such as transporting, buying, selling, witnessing the transaction.

These are all called preventative measures.

Sade-d-d-dade-a.

When something is haram, Allah-A-Zawajal makes the things leading to it haram as well. Obviously, the level of

of Hiram as well. Obviously the level of Hirma of the things leading to it is not the same as the

level of itself. You understand this point and that's what we're going to come to now.

When something is Hiram the avenues that lead to it also become haram,

but those avenues are not as sinful as the haram itself, obviously.

And this is called in the Sharia, Sadudd-Dharah-i cutting off the doors to this avenue.

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