Salam, 
Logic vs Halal and Haraam, Shaykh Yusuf Al Qaradawi passed a Phatwa saying that it is permissble for one to drink Alcohol contained in Energy drink’s as long as the level is only 0.5 percent. Chill yo I think it’s a grey area, I mean dark grey area. Leave it alone, but then again he has the right to hold his views.
Excerpt from Article from BBC News
Yusuf al-Qaradawi’s fatwa says a level of 0.5% is allowed, whereas most Muslims would say alcohol of any quantity is banned.
Sheikh Qaradawi was recently refused entry to Britain as the UK government said his views could spark violence.
He issued his fatwa in response to a question about high energy drinks.
‘Distorted’
Sheikh Qaradawi is talking about tiny quantities of alcohol - equivalent to about one-eighth of a unit of alcohol.
He ruled there was no religious ban on consuming drinks with a minute amount of alcohol in them if it was formed naturally through the process of fermentation.
He quoted the rule derived from the sayings of the Prophet that if drinking a lot of alcohol makes you intoxicated then drinking a little is also forbidden.
Sheikh Qaradawi argued that any person who consumed a large amount of high energy drink would not become intoxicated, therefore they were permissible, even though they contained tiny amounts of alcohol.
But this logic has not gone down well.
The editor of a newspaper in Qatar, where Sheikh Qaradawi lives, complained that the sheikh had just stirred up a controversy that everyone could have done without.
The editor said the fatwa from a cleric of the status of Sheikh Qaradawi would inevitably be misunderstood and distorted to suggest he was giving permission to Muslims to drink alcohol.
Sheikh Qaradawi, who is a well-known TV figure, views himself as a moderate voice of Islam.
What do you think he should have done? To me it is an issue that definitely should have been avoided, because some people take phatwa’s too far. I don’t understand, these scholars should sometimes stick to the safe side, but then again they can’t say something is haraam if in principle it isn’t. I guess I still completely reject it, I wonder what this might spark others to do.
(You can drop some halal feedback on the top of the article..)
