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    Question ID: 21831Country: India

    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: 21831

    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