Buying alcohol for fuel
Question: 21209
Is it permissible to buy alcohol (which is an intoxicant) to use it in a manner which will destroy it, such as using it for fuel (e.g., methylated spirits etc.) or for some manufacturing processes? Is it permissible to sell it to someone who one is certain will use it for such purposes?
Praise be to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon the Messenger of Allah and his family.
Selling
alcohol or any other intoxicant is haraam, and anyone who has any such thing
in his possession has to destroy it and not sell it, because of the general
meaning of the aayah (interpretation of the meaning):
“Help you one another in
Al‑Birr and At‑Taqwa (virtue, righteousness and piety); but do not help one
another in sin and transgression”[al-Maa’idah 5:2]
Source:
Fataawa al-Lajnah al-Daa’imah, 13/47
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