Is it permissible to sell and buy alcohol and alcoholic perfumes in the event of holding the opinion that wine is not impure, taking into account the hadith prohibiting the sale of wine, and the authorization to use medical alcohol out of necessity?
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The statement referred to in No. 80631 does not mean that it is permissible to sell wine or alcohol. Rather, it means that it is permissible to use perfumes containing alcohol, and to buy and sell them, because they are pure and beneficial for permissible uses. The alcohol in them is not the intended object of the contract but is secondary, and what is overlooked in the secondary is not overlooked in the primary. This applies to medicines that contain a percentage of alcohol.
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