Is It Permissible to Drink De-Alcoholized Beer with 0.0% Alcohol Content?

Answered by Shaykh Yusuf Weltch

Question

Is it permissible to drink beer that initially contained alcohol but was later fully extracted, resulting in a 0.0% alcohol content?

Answer

In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful and Compassionate

Dealcoholized drinks are strictly prohibited and sinful to consume.

It is common for companies to claim their de-alcoholized drinks have 0.0% alcohol; however, due to industry standards, they are allowed to claim that if the percentage is below 0.5%

Secondly, even if the claim of 0.0% alcohol is true, the drink is still impure (najas). The dealcoholization process does not purify the remainder of the drink from the impurity of the once-present alcohol. Consuming impurities is also strictly prohibited and sinful.

Drinks that are permitted in the Sacred Law far outnumber those that are prohibited. It is thus wise and more befitting for the Believer to stick to that which is permitted.

Hope this helps
Allah knows best
[Shaykh] Yusuf Weltch
Checked and Approved by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani

Shaykh Yusuf Weltch teaches Arabic, Islamic law, and spirituality. After accepting Islam in 2008, he completed four years at the Darul Uloom Seminary in New York, where he studied Arabic and the traditional sciences.

He then traveled to Tarim, Yemen, where he studied for three years in Dar al-Mustafa under some of the most outstanding scholars of our time, including Habib Umar Bin Hafiz, Habib Kadhim al-Saqqaf, and Shaykh Umar al-Khatib.

In Tarim, Shaykh Yusuf completed the memorization of the Quran and studied beliefs, legal methodology, hadith methodology, Quranic exegesis, Islamic history, and several texts on spirituality. He joined the SeekersGuidance faculty in the summer of 2019.