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4.0 BEVERAGES
1. The [unanimously] prohibited beverages are four:
Wine, which is the juice of grapes when it ferments, becomes intoxicating and emits froth.
[Tila : grape-]juice when it is boiled until less than two-thirds of it disappear [and it becomes intoxicating].
[Sakar :] infusion of dates [when it ferments and is intoxicating].
[Naqi` :] infusion of raisins when it [ferments and] is intoxicating.
2. Fermented juice of dates and raisins, if each of them is cooked [with] the slightest cooking, is permissible, even if it is intoxicating, provided one drinks from it [such an amount] that one is reasonably sure that it will not intoxicate him, [and provided it is not drunk] for fun or amusement. [Under the same conditions:]
There is no objection to khalitan .
The fermented juice of honey, fig, wheat, barley and corn is permissible even if it has not been cooked.
Grape-juice, if it is cooked until two-thirds of it disappears and one third remains, is permissible even if it is intoxicating.
[All of this is according to Abu Hanifah and Abu Yusuf. Muhammad said : the above are all prohibited, even in small quantities, and regardless of the reason for drinking, and his is the verdict of the madhhab.]
3. There is no objection to preparing juice in gourds, earthenware, pitch-coated vessels, or hollowed wooden vessels.
4. When wine turns to vinegar, it becomes permissible, whether it turned to vinegar on its own, or because of something cast into it. It is not repugnant to make it into vinegar.
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