{"id":6772,"date":"2024-07-10T07:43:58","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/2024\/07\/10\/drinking-insurance-and-interest\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T21:49:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T16:49:24","slug":"drinking-insurance-and-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/drinking-insurance-and-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"Drinking, Insurance, And Interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Question<\/h3>\n<p>I have a few questions. My first question relates to the consumption of alcohol. I know it is <em>haram.<\/em>  But living in a western country, where it is part of the social life,  one has to mix with the people who drink. I have been avoiding drinking  but attended parties and social gatherings where wine is served.  Recently I came across a book where it was written that Hadrat Umar  (sws) used to punish those people who attended parties like these. Where  does Islam stand on this? <\/p>\n<p>Could  you please guide me about the Friday Prayers? Is it true that if I  missed three in a row I am no more a Muslim? I also wanted to share that  I have to pay my car insurance and for this purpose I have to pay  interest. Are there exceptions for Muslims who are living in non-Muslim  countries?<\/p>\n<h3>Answer<\/h3>\n<p>It  is not very favorable to join parties in which people usually drink.  Such company can lead one to drinking. However, it is not <em>haram<\/em>  to attend such parties. The only thing that is prohibited is drinking  itself. As for the importance of Friday Congregation our view can be  reached at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.javedghamidi.net\/index.php\/questions\/view\/obligation-of-attending-the-friday-congregation\">http:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/pages\/questions_english_detail.php?qid=40&#038;cid=319&#038;search=friday<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We believe that insurance is not <em>haram.<\/em> Paying interest is also not <em>haram<\/em>.  The Islamic Shari&#8217;ah has prohibited taking interest not being subjected  to pay it. The Qur&#8217;an says that those who pay interest are in fact  subjected to a type of coercion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answered by:<\/strong> Tariq Mahmood Hashmi<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> 2015-03-02<\/p>\n<button class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"6772\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Favorite <i class=\"sf-icon-star-empty\"><\/i><\/button>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a few questions. My first question relates to the consumption of alcohol. I know it is <em>haram.<\/em>  But living in a western country, where it is part of the social life,  one has to mix with the people who drink. I have been avoiding drinking  but attended parties and social gatherings where wine is served.  Recently I came across a book where it was written that Hadrat Umar  (sws) used to punish those people who attended parties like these. Where  does Islam stand on this? <\/p>\n<p>Could  you please guide me about the Friday Prayers? Is it true that if I  missed three in a row I am no more a Muslim? I also wanted to share that  I have to pay my car insurance and for this purpose I have to pay  interest. Are there exceptions for Muslims who are living in non-Muslim  countries?<\/p>\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":[1363,1169,1158],"tags":[1572,1407,2564,1212],"class_list":["post-6772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dietary-directives","category-economic-issues","category-worship-rituals","tag-drinking","tag-friday-prayer","tag-insurance","tag-interest"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Drinking, Insurance, And Interest - 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\/drinking-insurance-and-interest\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Drinking, Insurance, And Interest - Al-Mawrid Queries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I have a few questions. 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