Sultan Noorud-Deen Zangi (rahimahullah) (d 569 H) is one of those outstanding rulers in Islamic history that needs no introduction. He is well-known for his piety, fear of Allah Ta\u2018ala and justice.<\/p>\n
His son Ismaa\u2018eel, who also possessed great piety like his father, was afflicted with a serious illness at the age of nineteen. The doctors prescribed that a small amount of alcohol be consumed to cure this illness. Despite the persistence of the doctors, this young ruler said, \u201cI will not consume it until I enquire about its permissibility from the Fuqaha (jurists).\u201d<\/em><\/strong> After being informed about his condition, the Shaafi\u2018ee jurists ruled that in this situation it was permissible to consume alcohol.<\/p>\n He also enquired from the great Hanafi scholar, \u2018Allamah \u2018Alaaud-Deen Kaasaani (rahimahullah) who gave him the verdict of permissibility. After listening to this verdict, Ismaa\u2018eel posed a question to him, \u201cIf the time of my death has come, will I live longer by consuming this alcohol?\u201d \u2018Allamah Kaasaani (rahimahullah) replied in the negative, upon which he said, \u201cI take an oath by Allah, I do not want to meet Allah Ta\u2018ala in such a state where I had taken something which He has declared as impermissible.\u201d<\/em><\/strong> Hence he did not consume the alcohol and passed away in this condition. May Allah Ta\u2018ala have mercy on him. (Shatharaatuz Zahab vol. 6, pg. 425)<\/p>\n Lessons:<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. Despite being between life and death, he did not wish to take any step without consulting the jurists and \u2018Ulama. Yet today everyone feels that he is qualified enough to make his own deductions from the Quraan and hadeeth and hold his own opinion in the deen of Allah Ta\u2018ala.<\/p>\n 2. We \u2018shop\u2019 around for verdicts to legalise the wrong that we wish to do. However here is a man who despite being given the verdict of permissibility by great jurists, chose to exercise precaution, at the cost of his dear life and all the luxuries of royalty and kingship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14530,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspirational-incidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12000,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11999\/revisions\/12000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}