{"id":6563,"date":"2024-07-10T07:43:31","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/2024\/07\/10\/explanation-of-a-prophetic-hadith\/"},"modified":"2024-07-10T13:20:58","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T13:20:58","slug":"explanation-of-a-prophetic-hadith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/explanation-of-a-prophetic-hadith\/","title":{"rendered":"Explanation Of A Prophetic Hadith"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Question<\/h3>\n<p>Is the following hadith authentic? It has been recorded by Imam Muslim in his <em>Sahih<\/em>.  It has been narrated on the authority of Abu Hurayra: A fornicator who  fornicates is not a believer as long as he commits fornication, and no  one who steals is a believer as long as he commits theft, and no one who  drinks wine is a believer as long as he drinks it, and repentance may  be accepted after that. <\/p>\n<div>Does this mean if a Muslim drinks alcohol he is not a Muslim any more?<\/div>\n<h3>Answer<\/h3>\n<p>The Prophet (sws), we believe, intended to teach the believers that these sins negate our <em>iman<\/em>.  When a person who professes belief in God and the related beliefs  commits sins that means that at the time of committing sin he was not  mindful of what his belief entailed. Had he fully conscious of his  belief in that moment he would not have heeded to the desires of the  flesh and would have stayed away from sin. Since his desires and other  motives overcame him at that moment he was not in the conscious state of  belief. <\/p>\n<div>This also means that our <em>iman<\/em>  is something that is at times more active and flourishing and at other  times and situations it can be dormant and silent to the stage of zero.  When we do righetous deeds and worship it is growing and when we give in  to the desires of the flesh we lose our faith.<\/div>\n<div>This  however relates only to the true state of one&#8217;s faith and has nothing  to do with the legal aspect of one&#8217;s religious affiliation. That is only  dependent only on stating that one is a believer and fuflilling some  apparant Muslim practices and rituals. Therefore, we cannot say that  someone who commits zina or who drinks is out of folds of Islam. <\/div>\n<p><strong>Answered by:<\/strong> Tariq Mahmood Hashmi<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> 2015-02-13<\/p>\n<button class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"6563\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Favorite <i class=\"sf-icon-star-empty\"><\/i><\/button>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is the following hadith authentic? It has been recorded by Imam Muslim in his <em>Sahih<\/em>.  It has been narrated on the authority of Abu Hurayra: A fornicator who  fornicates is not a believer as long as he commits fornication, and no  one who steals is a believer as long as he commits theft, and no one who  drinks wine is a believer as long as he drinks it, and repentance may  be accepted after that. <\/p>\n<div>Does this mean if a Muslim drinks alcohol he is not a Muslim any more?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1222],"tags":[1570,2196,1538,1223],"class_list":["post-6563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hadith-sunnah","tag-believe-in-a-god","tag-drink","tag-fornication","tag-hadith"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Explanation Of A Prophetic Hadith - Al-Mawrid Queries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/explanation-of-a-prophetic-hadith\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Explanation Of A Prophetic Hadith - Al-Mawrid Queries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Is the following hadith authentic? 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