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What is the ruling on paying the bill for a dinner where one of the attendees drank alcohol, and does paying for it include "the curse upon the one who drinks alcohol and the one who serves it"?

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What the questioner did is forbidden, for the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, cursed ten concerning alcohol: the one who presses it, the one for whom it is pressed, the one who drinks it, the one who carries it, the one to whom it is carried, the one who serves it, the one who sells it, the one who consumes its price, the one who buys it, and the one for whom it is bought. He must seek forgiveness from Allah and repent to Him. Likewise, it is not permissible merely to sit at a table where alcohol is being consumed.

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