{"id":2516,"date":"2020-03-18T10:02:45","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T08:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=2516"},"modified":"2020-03-18T10:02:46","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T08:02:46","slug":"using-alcohol-based-hand-sanitizers-and-disinfectants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=2516","title":{"rendered":"Using Alcohol Based Hand Sanitizers and Disinfectants"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Using Alcohol Based Hand Sanitizers and Disinfectants<\/strong><\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Q. Is it permissible to use Alcohol based Hand Sanitizers and to disinfect the Masjid with Alcohol based Disinfectants?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A.<\/strong> Generally, the Hand Sanitizers and Disinfectants available today in the market that are described as Alcohol-Based contain Ethanol\/Ethyl Alcohol. Ethanol Alcohol is a synthetic\/artificial based Alcohol. It is not alcohol that is prohibited in Shariah.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, it is permissible to use Hand Sanitizers or Disinfectants that contain Ethanol Alcohol to hand sanitize and disinfect the Masjid.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allah Ta\u2019ala Knows Best<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mufti Ismaeel Bassa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>themufti.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using Alcohol Based Hand Sanitizers and Disinfectants Q. Is it permissible to use Alcohol based Hand Sanitizers and to disinfect the Masjid with Alcohol based Disinfectants?<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-taharah","category-waqf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2517,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516\/revisions\/2517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}