or grapes
mixed with
dates.
Liquor,
having once
acquired a
fpirit, is not
rendered lawful
by boiling.
Rule with re-
fpe£t to the
life of 'veflelj.
I f frefh or dried grapes, being mixed with dates, be then boiled,
two thirds of the mixture muft evaporate before it becomes lawful;
for although, with refpeft to dates, a /mail boiling be often fufficient,
yet with refpedt to the juice of grapes two thirds are always required
to have evaporated in boiling. The lame rule alfo holds where the
juice of grapes is mixed with the water in which dates have been
Iteeped. If, however, dried grapes, being mixed with the water
o f dates, fhould be boiled for a little, and afterwards fome dates or
dried grapes be thrown into it, in that cafe, provided the quantity
thrown in be fmall, and not fo much as is generally ufed to make
Nabeez, it is lawful. It is otherwife, indeed, i f the quantity be
not fmall;— in the lame manner as where a pot of the water of
dates or railins is mixed with the boiled juice. Still, however, the
perfon who drinks it is not fubjedt to punilhment, becaufe its
illegality is adjudged merely on principles of caution; and endeavours
mull always be ufed to avoid the infliction of funijh-
ment.
If Khamr, or any other Ipirituous liquor, be boiled until two
thirds of it evaporate, Hill it is not lawful; for the illegality of it,
which was previoufly ellablilhed, is not removed by boiling.
T here is no impropriety in fqueezing juice into pots or veflels
o f a green colour, or of which the interior part has been varnilhed
with oil. T h e reafon of this is, that formerly, in the infancy of
the Mujfulman religion, it was cuftomary to keep Khamr in fuch
veflels; and, on this account, when Khamr was rendered illegal,
the prophet prohibited the ufe of them likewife, that the greater
caution might be obferved. He afterwards, however, permitted the
ufe of them, feeing that the veflels of themfelves did not render any
thing unlawful. If, therefore, Khamr have been kept in thele vef-
fels, it is neceflaty they be walhed before they are applied to ufe.
I f
I f a veflel be old, it becomes clean by three walhings; but if it be
new it can never be cleanfed, in the opinion of Mohammed; for then
the wine penetrates, and makes a deep impreflion in i t ; contrary to
the cafe of an old one. Aboo Toofaf holds that it may be clean led by
walhing it thrice, and drying it after each walhing.— Several have
faid that, in the opinion of Aboo Toofaf, the mode of cleanling it is
by filling it with water, and letting it remain for a lhort time; and
then emptying it and filling it again; and fo repeating this prdcefs
until the water poured out be perfectly pure; when the veflel is
clean.
W h e n Khamr is converted into vinegar, it is then lawful, whether
it have been made fo by throwing any thing into it, (fuch as fait
or vinegar,) or have become fo of itfelf.
V i n e g a r made of Khamr is not abominable. Shafei maintains
that it is abominable; and that all vinegar obtained from Khamr
by means of fome mixture is unlawful.— With refpeft, however, to
fuch as turn fo from Khamr o f itfelf, he has given two different
opinions.
W h e n Khamr is changed into vinegar, the veflel in which it is
contained becomes clean according to the quantity o f the Khamr.
With regard to that part of the veflel that was empty, feveral
have faid that it alfo becomes clean, as being dependant on the
other: but others have faid that, as it is battered over with dried
Khamr, it does not become clean until it be wafhed with vinegar,
when it is immediately purified. In the fame manner alfo,° i f
Khamr be poured out of a veflel, and the veflel be then wafhed
with vinegar, it becomes (as lawyers, have laid) inftantaneoufly
l x
V in eg a r may
be made from
K h am r ,
and the veflel
in which it is
fo made becomes