and its brackish taste disappears. In that state it is permissible so long as it has not turned into vinegar, nor have three full days and nights elapsed over it. Once either occurs it should be given to domestic animals or poured away, so that another infusion may be prepared in its vessel. The Prophet ﷺ used to have raisins steeped for him; he would drink the infusion up to the third day, and if anything remained thereafter he would discard it.
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Shaykh Taqī al-Dīn said: Hashīsha (cannabis) is impure, and its harm is greater than that of wine. The earlier scholars did not discuss it only because it was first prohibited toward the end of the sixth century AH.
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Shaykh Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm wrote: We have received your request for a legal ruling concerning the qat shrub. After reviewing the relevant evidences, we have issued a fatwa declaring it unlawful and prohibiting its cultivation, importation, use, and every other form of dealing with it.
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The Council of Senior Scholars stated: Qat is prohibited; it is not permissible for a Muslim to consume it, sell it, buy it, or engage in any other transaction involving it.
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Shaykh Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm also said: Let everyone be aware of our ruling—shared by our teachers, all the scholars of the Najdī daʿwah, and every other verified scholar in the various Muslim lands—that tobacco is forbidden. This position has been held from the time of its appearance, roughly ten years after the year one thousand AH, up to the present day, and it rests upon the Sharʿī foundations and the well-established legal principles.