The Prohibition
Alcohol
According to Quran and Sunnah
The
Prohibition
Hadith - Al-Tirmidhi #580, Narrated
AbudDarda'
...don't drink wine for it is the key to every evil.
Hadith - Abu Dawood, Narrated Umar ibn
al-Khattab
When the prohibition of wine (was yet to be) declared,
Umar said: O Allah, give us a satisfactory explanation about wine. So the
following verse of Surat al-Baqarah revealed; "They ask thee concerning wine
and gambling. Say: In them is great sin...." Umar was then called and it
was recited to him. He said: O Allah, give us a satisfactory explanation
about wine. Then the following verse of Surat an-Nisa' was revealed: "O ye
who believe! approach not prayers with a mind befogged...." Thereafter the
herald of the Apostle of Allah
would call
when the (congregational) prayer was performed: Beware,
one who is drunk should not come to prayer. Umar was again called
and it was recited to him. He said: O Allah, give us a satisfactory explanation
about wine. This verse was revealed: "Will ye not then abstain?" Umar said:
We abstained.
The Noble Qur'an - al-Baqarah 2:219
They ask you (O Muhammad
) concerning
alcoholic drink and gambling. Say: "In them is a great sin, and (some) benefit
for men, but the sin of them is greater than their benefit." And they ask
you what they ought to spend. Say: "That which is beyond your needs." Thus
Allâh makes clear to you His Laws in order that you may give
thought.
Selling and Buying
Hadith - Al-Tirmidhi #2776, Narrated Anas ibn
Malik
Allah's Messenger
cursed
ten people in connection with wine: the wine-presser, the one who has it
pressed, the one who drinks it, the one who conveys it, the one to whom it
is conveyed, the one who serves it, the one who sells it, the one who benefits
from the price paid for it, the one who buys it, and the one for whom it
is bought.
Tirmidhi and Ibn Majah transmitted it.
Dying when Addicted
Hadith - Muslim #4963, Narrated Abdullah ibn
Umar
Allah's Messenger
said:
Every intoxicant is Khamr
and every intoxicant is forbidden. He who drinks wine in this world and dies
while he is addicted to it, not having repented, will not be given a drink
in the Hereafter.
Beat for Drunkedness
Hadith - Bukhari 3:509, Narrated 'Uqba bin
Al-Harith
When An-Nuaman or his son was brought in a state of
drunkenness, Allah's Apostle
ordered
all those who were present in the house to beat him. I was one of those who
beat him. We beat him with shoes and palm-leaf stalks.
Hadith - Bukhari 8:764, Narrated Anas bin
Malik
The Prophet
beat
a drunk with palm-leaf stalks and shoes. And Abu Bakr gave (such a sinner)
forty lashes.
Hadith - Bukhari 8:768, Narrated Abu
Salama
Abu Huraira
said, "A man who drank wine was brought to the Prophet
. The Prophet
said,
'Beat him!' " Abu Huraira
added, "So some of us beat him with our hands, and some
with their shoes, and some with their garments (by twisting it) like a lash,
and then when we finished, someone said to him, 'May Allah disgrace you!'
On that the Prophet
said,
'Do not say so, for you are helping Satan to overpower
him.' "
Shaitan's Use of Intoxicants
The Noble Qur'an - Al-Ma'idah 5:91
Shaitân (Satan) wants only to excite enmity and hatred between you with intoxicants (alcoholic drinks) and gambling, and hinder you from the remembrance of Allâh and from As-Salât (the prayer). So, will you not then abstain?
Prayer Not Accepted
Hadith - Al-Tirmidhi #3643, narrated Abdullah
ibn Umar
; Abdullah ibn Amr
Allah's Messenger
said,
"If anyone drinks wine Allah will not accept prayer
from him for forty days, but if he repents Allah will forgive him. If he
repeats the offence Allah will not accept prayer from him for forty days,
but if he repents Allah will forgive him. If he again repeats the offence
Allah will not accept prayer from him for forty days, but if he repents Allah
will forgive him. If he repeats it a fourth time Allah will not accept prayer
from him for forty days, and if he repents Allah will not forgive him, but
will give him to drink of the river of the fluid flowing from the inhabitants
of Hell."
[Tirmidhi transmitted it, and Nasa'i, Ibn Majah and Darimi transmitted it on the authority of Abdullah ibn Amr.]
Medicine
Hadith - Abu Dawood, narrated Tariq ibn Suwayd
or Suwayd ibn Tariq
Wa'il said: Tariq ibn Suwayd or Suwayd ibn Tariq asked
the Prophet
about wine,
but he forbade it. He again asked him, but he forbade him. He said to him:
Prophet of Allah, it is a medicine. The Prophet
said:
No it is a disease.
Hadith
Umm Salamah, the wife of the Prophet
reports
that he once said: "Allah has not placed a cure for
your diseases in things that He has forbidden for you.''
(Reported by Baihaqi; Ibn Hibban considers this hadith to be sound.Bukhari
has also related it on the authority of Ibn Mas'ud.)
Hadith - Abu Dawood; Sahih Bukhari
Abu ad-Darda reported that the Prophet
said:
"Allah has sent down both the malady and its remedy.
For every disease He has created a cure. So seek medical treatment, but never
with something the use of which Allah has prohibited.''
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