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layout: post
publisher: alsalafiyyah@icloud.com
title: Ruling on chewing Khat
date: 2025-07-30
hijri: Safar 5, 1447 AH
source: Fatawa Al-Lajnah Ad-Daimah, Question 3, Fatwa No. 16097
category: [fatwas, drugs]
note: true
excerpt: "Eating Khat is forbidden because it causes intoxication and it also distracts from the remembrance of Allah and from Salah."
muftis:
  chairman: 
    - name: Shaykh Ibn Baz
      url: /biography/binbaz/
  deputy_chairman:
    - name: Shaykh Abdul-Razzaq Afifi
      url: /biography/afifi/
  members: 
    - name: Shaykh Abdul-Aziz Aal Ash-Shaykh
      url: /biography/abdulaziz/
    - name: Shaykh Salih Al-Fawzan
      url: /biography/fawzan/
    - name: Shaykh Abdullah ibn Ghudayyan
      url: /biography/ghudayyan/
    - name: Shaykh Bakr Abu Zayd
      url: /biography/bakr/
---

### Question
What is the ruling on eating Khat and delaying the performing of 'Asr (afternoon) prayer until half an hour before the Maghrib (sunset) prayer?

### Answer:
Eating Khat is forbidden because it causes intoxication and it also distracts from the remembrance of Allah and from Salah. It is not permissible to delay Salah from its due time in congregation. These are forbidden acts resulting from eating Khat. They are all forbidden and therefore, Khat is strictly forbidden to eat.