Imam F Qasim ibn Ali Khan: Update to Prior Post
First post:
https://opinionbytammy.blogspot.com/2025/09/dear-muslim-community-answer-is-nope.html
Updated report out:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15078883/Sharia-patrols-Texas-alcohol-pork-ban.html
So let's make it a Pink Floyd day. "We don't need no education!" And we refuse to be another brick in the wall.
Muzzamil.
Let me unfold the garment. And let's go to the Sunni side of the house because Imam Khan leans toward a Salafist posture - albeit he has the name "Ali" in his bloodline.
Islamic law is derived from the Qur'an and the Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad. The Sunnah consists of the sayings... actions... and inactions... of the prophet - which are found within Ahadith literature. The Ahadith consist of two parts: the snad (pl. sanad) and the matn. The sanad is the chain of narrators and the matn is the actual text. Sahih al- Bukhari and Sahih Muslim are the gold standard. But my most intensely analyzed are the Ahadith Qudsi.
Spinning off all of this - Islamic law. And from the aforementioned, the four Sunni schools of jurisprudence make for a robust reading schedule.
Ijmaa' is where a joint agreement or consensus is formed on a specific point of law which is not necessarily found within both the Qur'an and the Sunnah. They are opinion-based secondary rulings.
Qiyaas - are rulings specific to the Sunni side of the house and are based on a process of deduction. It is within this milieu that drugs, alcohol, and smoking - find a nesting ground.
Regarding alcohol, the word in common usage is khamr. This literally means an alcoholic beverage made from fermented grape juice. Al Bukhari, Muslim, Abu Dawud, and at-Tirmidhi all share this thought:
"Every intoxicant is khamr, so every intoxicant is haram."
Collections by Ibn Maajah and also Abu Dawood add this thought:
"Whatever intoxicates in large amounts is haram in small amounts."
So if you take that one sip of alcohol - you have sinned against the Slave Master.
Qiyaas were used by Ottoman Sultanate scholars in the seventeenth century to decide the issue of tobacco and cigarettes. The ruling was that smoking was Makrooh (disliked), just like garlic! There goes your garlic Italian pasta and a nice cigar afterward.
Anyway, the deduction was made that "smokers breath" was as offensive as garlic breath. Of course, this was based on Ahadith.
"Whoever eats any of this offensive plant (garlic) should not come to the mosque."
Modern scholars, now scientifically assured that smoking can increase a likelihood of lung cancer, toss in a basic ayat for good measure. "Do not kill yourselves...." (An Nisa 29)
Lottery tickets? My little secret. But yes, there is a precedent and if a certain event had not evolved with an assured outcome, we would not having this conversation. But it was a very, very costly gamble.
Pork? No different a stance than Orthodox Jews. It is forbidden.
Blogger's note:
One of the four schools of jurisprudence allows for wine made from date fruits. And there are non-breathalyzer tests to determine drunkenness. Moderation? Yes. But no inebriation. And your legal Mufti will not touch the stuff. I trained under a Mufti (for a decade) who was a Hanafi scholar.
Imam Khan has no real place in America. I can only hope he is living in America on a green card and that DHS can rapidly expedite his deportation back to his happy place; a place where he can take his self-righteous, intimidating ways and beat up on other slaves. Because in America we are not slaves. In America, we are free.
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