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SHURB AL-KHAMR (ALCOHOLIC DRINK)
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PART 1
Literally Khamr means a covering, anything that covers up
another. However, it refers to Alcoholic drinks like wine and liquor
which causes intoxication thus covering up the functioning of human
intellect and sense of reasoning.
ALCOHOLIC DRINKS FORBIDDEN IN ISLAM:
The Holy Quran says:
“O you who believe ! Surely
intoxicants (Khamr) and games of chance (Maysir) and sacrificing to
stones set up (Ansaab) and diving by arrows (Azlaam) are only an
uncleanness, the Satan’s work; shun it therefore that you may be
successful”. (5:90)
“They ask you about
intoxicants (Khamr) and games of chance (Maysir).Say: In both of them
there is a great sin and means of profit for men, and their sin is
greater than their profit…”
(2:219)
Islam has strictly condemned the consumption of all Alcoholic drinks and
there is no difference if the quantity consumed is less or more, pure or
mixed. Thus even if a person licks a single drop, it is Haraam
whether he gets intoxicated or not.
Imam as-Sadiq (as) has said:
“Every intoxicant is Haraam. Something that intoxicates only when
consumed in large quantities, is also not allowed to be taken even in a
lessor quantity”.
Ibn Wahab (narrator) asked:
“Then if a Haraam thing is mixed in a huge quantity of water, does it
become permissible?”
Imam (as) flailed his arm twice indicating emphatically that it does
not.
(Furoo’
al-Kaafi)
In
Mustanad ash-Shia’h, it is reported from Imam as-Sadiq (as) who
said:
“If more of it intoxicates, then to consume even a bit of it is Haraam”.
Somebody asked, “But what if I dilute it with water?” Imam (as)
replied:
“A Haraam thing does not become Halaal by mixing it with water. Fear
Allah, refrain from partaking of it”.
Islam has also strictly condemned all those actions which are in any way
associated with Alcoholic drinks. The Holy Prophet (saw) has cursed ten
types of people in connection with this:
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One who plants a sapling with the
intention of making wine.
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One who cultivates such a sapling so
that wine is made from it.
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One who crushes the grapes.
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One who drinks wine.
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One who serves the wine.
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One who transports wine.
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One who takes its delivery from the
supplier.
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One who sells wine.
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One who buys it.
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One who uses that income earned from
making & selling wine.
Besides, there are several traditions in which we are instructed not to
associate and befriend drunkards, not to give daughters, not to trust
them with any deposits, not to even attend their funeral, not to sit at
a place or on a table where others drink wine and not to attend parties
where wine is also served. All these are prohibited and Haraam in Islam.
Imam as-Sadiq (as) quotes the Holy Prophet (saw):
“Allah has made me to pronounce wine as Haraam. After this pronouncement
if someone still drinks wine, he is not fit to have his proposal for
marriage accepted, when he proposes. If he seeks recommendation, he
should not be recommended. If he says something he must not be believed.
His testimony must not be accepted. Nothing should be kept in his trust.
Allah is not responsible for something kept with a drunkard, with the
knowledge (of his vice). He will not receive any compensation if the
thing is lost, nothing could be taken in exchange and neither its
cost”
(al-Kaafi)
Imam (as) has also said:
“One who marries his well-behaved daughter to a drunkard; it is as if he
has given her to adultery”.
(Mustadrakul-Wasaael)
Imam (as) has also stated in a tradition:
“If a drunkard falls ill, do not go to visit him. If he dies, do not
attend his funeral”.
To be
continued…………………
Mulla
Mujaheedali Sheriff
mulla@almahdi.org.uk |