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layout: post
title: "Salah of a person who drinks intoxicants"
publisher: "alsalafiyyah@icloud.com"
source: "Fatawa Al-Lajnah Ad-Da'imah, Fatwa no. 11293, Question 2"
hijri: Muharram 9, 1442
date: 2020/08/28
category: [fatwas,salah]
note: true
locale: en
lang: en
excerpt: "If a person offers Salah with all its obligatory acts and fulfills its conditions, it is considered valid. They will be rewarded for it, and they will be sinful for drinking Khamr."
muftis:
  chairman: 
    - name: Shaykh Abdul-Aziz ibn Baz
      url: /biography/binbaz/
  deputy_chairman:
    - name: Shaykh Abdul-Razzaq Afifi
      url: /biography/afifi/
  members: 
    - name: Shaykh Abdullah ibn Ghudayyan
      url: /biography/ghudayyan/
---

### Question: 

What is the ruling on a person who drinks Khamr (intoxicants) at night and offers Salah (Prayer) during the day? As Salah should prevent a person from committing immoral acts and Munkar (that which is unacceptable or disapproved of by Islamic law and Muslims of sound intellect), is their Salah valid or not?

### Answer:

If a person offers Salah with all its obligatory acts and fulfills its conditions, it is considered valid. They will be rewarded for it, and they will be sinful for drinking Khamr. They are considered among those who mix good deeds with evil ones. "**So whosoever does good equal to the weight of an atom (or a small ant) shall see it. And whosoever does evil equal to the weight of an atom (or a small ant) shall see it.**" [al-Zalzalah: 7-8]