Title: my ques. is many medicines contains alcohol like cough syrup, is it halal or haram?
Question: Assalamwalaykum, my ques. is many medicines contains alcohol like cough syrup, is it halal or haram?
Answer ID: 21831Posted on:
Sep 1, 2020
Bismillah hir-Rahman nir-Rahim !
(Fatwa: 649/649/M=1431)
Use of alcohol prepared from haram ingredients is unlawful, but usually in India alcohol is prepared from lawful ingredients; therefore it is not haram. And the use of medicine which contains such alcohol is also not unlawful.
Allah (Subhana Wa Ta'ala) knows Best
Darul Ifta,
Darul Uloom Deoband, India