Coca-Cola, Medicines, Doctors’ Medicine

Question

Nowadays bottled Coca-Cola is being drunk, and it contains 5 percent wine as a component; likewise some medicines contain such a component. What is the ruling on both?

Answer

Wine — whether in medicine, in food, or in Coca-Cola and the like — is impermissible everywhere. I have not investigated into which things wine is mixed. The rulings of compulsion (dire necessity) are separate.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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