In the name of ALLAH, We praise Him,
seek His help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can
misguide, and whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We
bear witness that there is none worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear
witness that Muhammad (saw) is His slave-servant and the seal of His
Messengers.
This is proved from our Prophet (Blessings and peace of ALLAH
be upon him), that he said: “The wine is mother of all evils”. This Hadith
clearly indicates that wine is a main source of wickedness. The disadvantages
of wine to individuals and societies are very clear. This is well known to
everybody. Individuals may suffer from many dangers related to wine
consumption:
1 - Damage of intellect.
2 - Weakness of body.
3- Waste of money.
4- Becoming far from the Almighty’s
mercy.
In addition, the wine causes many
forms of harm to social life. Here are some of them:
1- Disintegration of the family.
2- Severance of relations as a
result of many conflicts due to wine consumption.
3- Negligence of spousal and
children’s rights.
4- Disturbance of peace.
5- Spreading of crimes and
obscenity.
We are also advised that if we avoid things that harm us we
also prevent harm we may cause to others when... the Prophet Muhammad
(Blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) said: “There is no harm, no
reciprocal harming”. ALLAH knows best.
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter
5 Surah Maidah verses 90-91:
O you who have believed! ‘Khamr’
(all types of intoxicants), games of
chance, idols, and divining arrows are all abominable works
of the Shaytaan; therefore,
stay (far) away from these so that you may attain success. Indeed,
the Shaytaan seeks to sow enmity and hatred among you by means of
‘khamr’ (intoxicants) and gambling, and
to prevent you from the Remembrance of Allah and from Salaah. Will you not, then, abstain from these things?
Sunan of Abu-Dawood Hadith 3672 Narrated by Abdullah Ibn Abbas
The Messenger of Allah (saws) said:
“Every intoxicant is ‘khamr’
(alcohol, wine, beer, drugs, etc.), and every ‘khamr’ is haraam.”
Maybe you will ask…but wine is made of
grapes so why is it haram?
Although the fruit grape is lawful
in its essence, when the extract of this fruit is treated and fermented, it
produces a drink which intoxicates…..and every type of drink (or substance)
which intoxicates when consumed is absolutely prohibited for the believers who
sincerely fear Allah and the Last Day.
Al-Tirmidhi Hadith 4477 Narrated by Jabir ibn Abdullah. The Prophet (saws) said,
"He who believes in
Allah and the Last Day must not sit at a cloth (table or gathering) where wine
is being circulated."
Sunan of Abu-Dawood Hadith 3765 Narrated by Abdullah ibn Umar
The Messenger of Allah
(saws) forbade the sitting at a cloth (table or gathering) on which wine is
drunk.
If one trusts, obeys, and follows
the guidance and commands of Allah and His Messenger (saws), one can be assured of never ever being
misled; but if one believes, obeys and
follows any other guidance, other than that of Allah and His Messenger (saws),
one can be assured of being led astray.
Effects
The
effects of alcohol vary depending on a number of factors including:
type and quantity of alcohol
consumed
age,
weight and gender
body
chemistry
food
in the stomach
drinking
experience
situation in which
drinking occurs
SHORT-TERM
EFFECTS
Although it varies
between individuals, there is a relationship between the concentration of
alcohol in the blood (Blood Alcohol Concentration - BAC) and its effects. Mild
euphoria and stimulation of behaviour occur initially with minor effects on
performance which become more pronounced as the concentration of alcohol rises.
Unfortunately, people often believe they are performing better rather than much
worse.
In a person of
average build, one standard drink will raise the BAC by approximately
0.01-0.03% in an hour, and as a rough guide it will be broken down at a similar
rate, i.e. one standard drink per hour.
EFFECTS
ON BEHAVIOUR
Stages
|
BAC
|
Likely
Effects
|
Feeling
of well-being
|
Up
to .05 g%
|
Talkative
Relaxed
More
confident
|
At-risk
|
.05-.08
g%
|
Talkative
Acts
and feels self-confident
Judgment
and movement impaired
Inhibitions
reduced
|
Risky
state
|
.08-.15
g%
|
Speech
slurred
Balance
and coordination impaired
Reflexes
slowed
Visual
attention impaired
Unstable
emotions
Nausea,
vomiting
|
High-risk
state
|
.15-.30
g%
|
Unable
to walk without help
Apathetic,
sleepy
Laboured
breathing
Unable
to remember events
Loss
of bladder control
Possible
loss of consciousness
|
Death
|
Over
.30 g%
|
Coma
Death
|
INTOXICATION
RISKS
Intoxication is the
most common cause of alcohol-related problems, leading to injuries and
premature deaths. As a result, intoxication accounts for two-thirds of the
years of life lost from drinking. Alcohol is responsible for:
30% of road accidents
44%
of fire injuries
34%
of falls and drownings
16%
of child abuse cases
12%
of suicides
10% of industrial
accidents
As well as deaths,
short-term effects of alcohol result in illness and loss of work productivity
(e.g. hangovers, drink driving offences). In addition, alcohol contributes to
criminal behaviour - in Australia over 70% of prisoners convicted of violent
assaults have drunk alcohol before committing the offence and more than 40% of
domestic violence incidents involve alcohol.
LONG-TERM
EFFECTS
Each year
approximately 3000 people die in Australia as a result of excessive alcohol
consumption and around 65 000 people are hospitalised. Long-term excessive
alcohol consumption is associated with:
heart damage
high
blood pressure and stroke
liver
damage
cancers
of the digestive system
other
digestive system disorders (e.g. stomach ulcers)
sexual
impotence and reduced fertility
increasing
risk of breast cancer
sleeping
difficulties
brain
damage with mood and personality changes
concentration and
memory problems
In addition to health problems, alcohol also impacts on
relationships, finances, work, and may result in legal problems.
TOLERANCE AND DEPENDENCE
A regular drinker
may develop tolerance and dependence. Tolerance means that they feel less
effect than they used to with the same amount of alcohol. Dependence means that
the alcohol becomes central in their life - a lot of time is spent thinking
about alcohol, obtaining it, consuming it and recovering from it. The person
will find it difficult to stop drinking or to control the amount consumed.
Withdrawal
Someone who is
physically dependent on alcohol will experience withdrawal symptoms when they
stop drinking or substantially reduce their intake. Symptoms usually commence
6-24 hours after the last drink, last for about 5 days and include:
1.
Tremor
2.
Nausea
3.
Anxiety
4.
Depression
5.
Sweating
6.
Headache
7. difficulty sleeping
(may last several weeks)
Alcohol withdrawal
can be very dangerous; people drinking more than 8 standard drinks a day are
advised to discuss a decision to stop drinking with a doctor as medical
treatment may be required to prevent complications.
One day, as he came
out from his mosque, the Prophet Muhammad, may God send praises upon him,
noticed his cousin and son-in-law, Ali b. Abi Talib, visibly upset. When
the concerned Prophet asked Ali what was troubling him, Ali simply pointed to
the bloody carcass of his dearly cherished camel - no ordinary camel, but the
war-weathered camel that Ali would mount in his valiant defense of the Prophet
and Islam on the battlefield. Ali told the Prophet that one of their
uncles had been responsible for the unsanctioned slaughter of his animal, and
so the Prophet went to ascertain his (i.e. the uncle's) side of the story.
Entering in the
presence of his uncle, the Prophet found him drunk with wine. Upon seeing
the displeasure in his nephew's face, the uncle knew at once, despite his
intoxication, that the Prophet had come to question him about Ali's beast of
war. With nothing good to say in his defense, the guilt-ridden, drunken
uncle blurted out to his nephew: "You and your father are my slaves!"
The Prophet's only response to the blasphemous outburst was to exclaim:
"Truly, alcohol is the mother of every evil!"
And so, from the
biography of the Prophet Muhammad we learn a weighty lesson as regards the
colossal and evil consequences of alcoholic drink. Any one of the alcohol-inspired
acts in this short episode from the blessed Prophet's life would suffice the
reader as an admonition: whether it be the culling of Ali's camel, the drunken
state of an uncle of a Prophet of God - let alone His last and final messenger
to mankind - or the wicked insult he spewed out against him and his own
deceased brother, who was no less than the father of the Prophet of God.
How much worse then when we consider all these crimes together? Not to
mention the many evils indirectly resulting from the uncle's consumption of the
alcohol, such as the loss to the Muslim community of one its battle-hardened
steeds of war, or the pain, anguish and, perhaps, embarrassment that Muhammad
must have felt at this tragic family affair. No doubt, it was precisely
because the Prophet recognized that it was the alcohol that gave birth to and
nurtured all these foul sins that he denounced it as: "the mother of every
evil!"
Hence, we find
Islam completely forbidding the consumption of alcohol, whether in large or
small amounts. The Prophet Muhammad said:
"If a large
amount of anything causes intoxication, a small amount of it is also
prohibited." [Narrated by the Companion, Jaabir,
and recorded in the collections of Tirmidhi, Abu Dawud & Ibn Majah].
Now let’s me bring 2 stories regarding about this topic…
A man argues that wine should be
halal
A man came to Iyas Ibn Mu'awiyah, a Muslim
judge famous for his wisdom, and the following conversation took place between
them:
Man: What is the Islamic ruling regarding wine?
Judge: It is Haram (Forbidden).
Man: How about water?
Judge: It is Halal (Permissible).
Man: How about dates and grapes?
Judge: They are Halal.
Man: Why is it that all these ingredients are Halal, and yet when you combine them, they become Haram?
The judge looked at the man and said: If I hit you with this handful of dirt, do you think it would hurt you?
Man: It would not.
Judge: How about if I hit you with this handful of straw?
Man: It would not hurt me.
Judge: How about a handful of water?
Man: It surely would not hurt me.
Judge: How about if I mix them, and let them dry to become a brick, and then hit you with it, would it hurt you?
Man: It would hurt me and might even kill me!
Judge: The same reasoning applies to what you asked me!!
Man: What is the Islamic ruling regarding wine?
Judge: It is Haram (Forbidden).
Man: How about water?
Judge: It is Halal (Permissible).
Man: How about dates and grapes?
Judge: They are Halal.
Man: Why is it that all these ingredients are Halal, and yet when you combine them, they become Haram?
The judge looked at the man and said: If I hit you with this handful of dirt, do you think it would hurt you?
Man: It would not.
Judge: How about if I hit you with this handful of straw?
Man: It would not hurt me.
Judge: How about a handful of water?
Man: It surely would not hurt me.
Judge: How about if I mix them, and let them dry to become a brick, and then hit you with it, would it hurt you?
Man: It would hurt me and might even kill me!
Judge: The same reasoning applies to what you asked me!!
One
more story about the harmful wine…let’s we read together
Where sin, drinking intoxicating beverages,
adultery or murder. That's the conundrum at the core sermon Ustman Khalifah bin
Affan ra as narrated by Az-Zuhriy, Ustman sermons that reminded people to be
careful to drink wine. For an intoxicating beverage as the base of the heinous
act and the source of all sin.In the past life of a religious expert who is
always keen worship to the mosque, said the Caliph Ustman sermon...
One day a pious man
was acquainted with a beautiful woman. Because
I had fell in love, he went along when told to choose between three requests,
about disobedience. First drink wine, second adultery and third kill the baby.
Thinking drink wine sin is smaller than the other two options put forward her
idol, the pious man was then choose to drink wine. But what happens, with a heady wine that he
even violated two other crimes. Drunk and forget ourselves, the man had
committed adultery with a prostitute and kill the baby at her side.
Whatever
written of Truth and benefit is only due to Allah’s Assistance and Guidance,
and whatever of error is of me alone.
Allah Alone Knows Best and He is the Only Source of Strength.
WALLALLAHHUALAMBISSAWAB…
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