I drank wine 10 days before Ramadan, and I was repentant afterwards. Then I returned to drinking it again in Ramadan, and I repented since then, though I know that there is a Hadith by the Prophet, prayers and peace of Allah be upon him, in which he says: “Whoever drinks wine, his prayers are not accepted for forty mornings”, does this mean that my fasting is not accepted either? Counsel me with the Shari’ah ruling, may Allah bless you.

Drinking wine is one of the deadly sins, and Allah The Exalted has said in His Noble Book: “That wine and gambling, Anssaab (erected objects) and Azlaam (arrows without heads and feathers), are evil doings instigated by the devil, therefore, avoid them so as to be successful”. And the Prophet, prayers and peace of Allah be upon him, said that whoever drinks wine, is damned, and that whoever drank it in worldly life, he will never drink it in Paradise, even if he is admitted there. Therefore, the inquirer must repent to Allah The Exalted from this deadly and abominable sin.

            As for what has been included in the Hadith that "the prayers of wine drinker will not be accepted for forty mornings", this means that he is not to be rewarded for doing it, though it is correct and he does not need to repeat doing it again. And there is no text concerning fasting, but the conclusion is that the fasting of the inquirer is correct and he does not need to repeat doing it again, though because of his drinking wine, he may be deprived of getting rewarded. We pray to Allah The Exalted to make him repent truly.