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SHURB AL-KHAMR (ALCOHOLIC DRINK) - PART 4
NO CURE IN WINE
Ibn Abi Yazoor once told Imam as-Sadiq (as): “I am suffering from a
disease. When the pain intensifies I drink some wine of grapes and he
pain subsides”. Imam (as) said, “Do not
drink. It is Haraam; It is nothing but Shaitan who is preying upon you
to involve you in sins. When he loses all hope of making you drink he
will leave you”. Ibn Abi Yazoor returned to Kufa and stopped
drinking wine when in pain. He bore the pain for some days and
eventually, as the Imam (as) had said, his pain receded and he never
suffered from it again.
According to the traditions of Ahlul-Bayt (as) to take wine as medicine
is not permissible. The Jurists also unanimously agree that one should
refrain from consuming any intoxicant to cure a disease or to ward off
pain. Allah has not reposed any curative effect in any intoxicant.
A
woman presented herself before Imam as-Sadiq (as) when Abu Baseer was
also present. She said:”May I be sacrificed for you, on the day
Quiyamah I will tell Allah (SWT) that I have done as instructed by
Ja’ffar ibn Muhammad (as). Physicians have told me to knead the flour
with grape wine and eat the bread. This will cure the terrible pain of
my heart. I ask you, shall I do this?” Imam (as) replied:”No
! By Allah I will not permit you even a drop of wine. Don’t taste even a
drop of it. Otherwise when your soul reaches here (Imam
pointed towards his throat) you will only
regret”. Then the Imam (as) asked the woman thrice:
“Have you understood?” and she
replied: “Yes”.
Ayatullah Dasti Ghayb writes:
Certain Mujtahids have stated that there
are three exceptions where an intoxicant could be taken as medicene.
First of all the person should know that his malady is curable. Secondly
it must be that if this treatment is not taken it would result in death
or extreme pain. Thirdly there should be no other cure for this ailment.
If this conditions are fulfilled, the patient can be given an intoxicant
as medicene but only just enough to cure his disease.
Furtheron, the Late Ayatullah adds:
Allah (SWT) has not bestowed any cure in a
Haraam thing. Hence the above conditions are mentioned just for the sake
of obligation. Such a situation can hardly arise.
WINE ON THE DINNER
TABLE
If
wine is served on a table, it is Haraam to sit there and eat even if one
does not touch the wine.
The Holy Prophet (saw) has said:
“Accursed, accursed is the one who sits at the table where wine is being
served”.
Imam as-Sadiq (as) has said:
“Do not sit with drunkards because when the curse descends it engulfs
all the people in the company of the drunkards”.
The rulings of Ayatullah Seyyid Ali al-Husseini as-Seestani on this
issue is as follows:
It is Haraam to eat at the
table on which alcohol or any other intoxicants are being consumed.
Based on obligatory precaution, it is Haraam to even sit at such a
table. (No.168/Code of Practice
for Muslims in the West).
AHADEETH ON ALCOHOL
The Holy Prophet (saw):
“One who is careless of Salaat (prayer) will be deprived of my
intercession, and will not be able to reach me at the pool of Kauthar.
And by Allah, my intercession will also not reach the one who consumes
intoxicants and he would not be able to reach at the pool of Kauthar”.
Imam al-Baqir (as):
“On the day of Quiyamah the drunkard would come with a black face, a
protruding tongue and the saliva dripping upon his chest”.
Imam as-Sadiq (as):
“One who drinks wine considering it Halaal will remain forever in hell.
One who drinks wine knowing it is Haraam will taste the punishment of
hell”.
Imam ar-Ridha (as):
“Allah knows better that every prophet who has been sent by Him did not
have his religion completed till wine was prohibited. Wine has always
been Haraam”.
Mulla Mujaheedali Sheriff
mulla@almahdi.org.uk |