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So, people sometimes ask about alcohol in sanitizers, alcohol in perfumes and in some cosmetics and so on.

What about that? Let's understand something.

There are several rulings regarding alcohol.

But the term alcohol is a very broad English term that includes the Arabic term

and much more than Humber. So what is Humber? It is generally referred to the wines that are produced from the fermentation process of either grapes or dates or apples etc.

So if you have a wine, if you have a beer, if you have something that intoxicates a drink that was made by fermentation of the grapes and the dates and the apples according to some scholars, then it's not only the consumption that is prohibited but it is beyond the consumption because it is considered nudges.

Nudges means impure to touch. So if you were to have wine poured all over you, it is impure. It can never ever be pure even if it was to be put into a sanitizer as a wine. Remember this.

So the wines, the beers, they are not only prohibited to consume but they are impure to touch as well.

Let me explain these two. One is Haram and Halal and the other is Nudges and Tahir. So when it comes to the wines that are from a fermentation process, they are both nudges which means impure to touch and Haram which means prohibited to consume.

If you get it, if the alcohol was produced through a synthetic means in a laboratory and usually it's, you know, colorless. Subhanallah, that is Haram to consume because of the intoxicating factor but it is pure to touch.

So pure that in fact it is a disinfectant and it is used to disinfect to remove impurity from the body. So it can never be Halal to consume but if it is fermented and from a fermentation process, then the chances are it will be nudges as well.

So honestly when it comes to grape and dates and even apples and so on, it is nudges as well from the fermentation process. But if it is the lab process and the synthetic alcohol way, this alcohol actually drips down as a pure, you know, liquid, pure, pure meaning colorless.

So in fact, Allah, it is Haram to consume because of the intoxicating factor but it is not hammer. It is not hammer, it is alcohol which is a term broader than the word hammer.

So yes, because of its intoxicating factor, we won't consume it but it is not nudges, it is Tahir.

And this is why for many years I've always said that the alcohol in perfumes, there is no question about it being Lahir, it's not nudges because it's not the wines, it's not from a fermentation process, it is actually derived from a totally different means.

And what we need to understand is nowadays they use it even in some cosmetics and we know with the sanitizers today people are arguing alcohol and sanitizers, it's not like they put beer in the sanitizer, it's not like they put wine in the sanitizer.

If they did that we would say don't ever use it, it's impure from an Islamic perspective but this is alcohol that is beyond the process of the wines and the beers that are fermented.

So I hope that clarifies it completely, it's quite simple to understand. You know, the alcohol they use in the swabs, the alcohol that they use in the perfumes or in the sanitizers in the cosmetics,

is not the nudges fermented wines or beers, let's get that straight. So therefore if it is intoxicating and it is, although it's very dangerous to consume that pure alcohol from a lab process, it probably would burn your insides but some people mix it with other liquids and then consume it, it is still totally prohibited to consume.

But when it comes to touching it, when it comes to the pahara and najasa, it is tajar. There are so many things in Islam that are haram to consume but tajar to touch.

I mean you want to consume, let's look at plastic for example, because it's harmful to the body, it's haram to consume but it's halal to touch, you can touch it, it's tajar, it's pure.

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