Hadith 5155

(1) His statement: “The first thing to be overturned” – Al-Qadi said: The meaning is that the first of the prohibitions to be consumed and boldly drunk in Islam, as water is boldly drunk, is wine. They will justify its permissibility by naming it something else, like nabidh or muthallath. This implies that nabidh and muthallath are lawful, and that a thing’s reality does not change by changing its name, as a black person is called camphor. Thus, it is not valid to infer the prohibition of the modern coffee by claiming it is among the names of wine or drunk in the manner of drinkers. We say: There is no specificity to coffee then, as milk, water, and rosewater are similar. The customary drinking in the Two Holy Mosques and elsewhere is not like the drinking of the corrupt, which involves various fermented drinks and communal drinking in a single state. This removes the resemblance and dispels the doubt. Its permissibility is supported by Allah’s statement: It is He who created for you all that is on the earth (Al-Baqarah: 29). The default ruling for things is permissibility unless diverted by evidence from the Book, Sunnah, consensus, or valid analogy. (As stated in Al-Mirqat)