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[quote]Can We Use Perfumes ?
Final prohibition of intoxication was imposed vide the following verse: O believers, intoxicants and games of chance and idols and divining arrows are only an infamy of Satan’s handiwork. Leave it aside in order that you may succeed. (5:90)

In the above verse, intoxication and gambling are declared satanic acts. No scholar from the above verse deduces that touching the playing cards or gambling arrows is unlawful. Their use in gambling is prohibited. On the same logic, alcohol itself is not unclean but its consumption is forbidden. What is Satanic about intoxicants and gambling? The Quran explains in the next verse: ‘Satan intends to create enmity and hatred among you by means of intoxicants and gambling and he seeks to turn you from remembrance of Allah and from Salat. Will you then desist’? (5:91)

It is also clear that the enemity and hatred is created from consuming intoxicants and playing games of chance. It is not created by touching alcohol or cards. Another pointer in the above verse is that by means of these evils Satan intends to keep you away from Salat. Now, there is another verse dealing with the subject of intoxicants and Salat, which may make the answer to the query more comprehensible. It states: O believers, do not go nearby Salat when you are intoxicated till you comprehend what you utter (4:43)

The verse specifies the duration of keeping away from Salat when one is in a state of intoxication. It is not instructed to keep away till he takes a bath. He who is under the influence of intoxicants has to keep away from Salat till his mind is clear enough to comprehend what he says. In the same verse, it is directed that a bath is required to go nearby Salat when one is unclean from sexual discharge. If alcohol were unclean to touch, a bath would have been necessary for one who became polluted from touching it.

On the basis of above hints from Quran it is clear that though some Scholars prefer being cautious, there is no harm in using perfumes containing alcohol.

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