Does drinking alcohol invalidate prayer and fasting for forty days?
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There is no doubt that the prayer of a wine-drinker is not accepted for forty days, and that whoever's prayer is not accepted is more likely to have their fasting unaccepted, because prayer is the first thing a servant will be judged upon on the Day of Resurrection. If it is sound, then he has succeeded and prospered, and if it is corrupt, then he has failed and lost.
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