{"id":6890,"date":"2024-07-10T07:44:21","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/2024\/07\/10\/taking-a-small-amount-of-alcohol\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T21:49:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T16:49:10","slug":"taking-a-small-amount-of-alcohol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/taking-a-small-amount-of-alcohol\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking A Small Amount Of Alcohol"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Question<\/h3>\n<p>Does the Holy Qur\u2019an specifically declare \u2018alcohol\u2019 or wine prohibited (haram)?  Some people argue that it does not. Therefore, these people contend  that a Muslim can consume alcohol as long as it does not cause a loss of  sanity and he does not fall into the state of mindlessness. Please  provide Qur\u2019anic reference in support of your reply.<\/p>\n<h3>Answer<\/h3>\n<p>It would be safe to say that there was no need for the Holy Qur\u2019an to expressly declare alcohol haram. All intoxicants are already known to be harmful through our innate guidance. The Islamic Shari\u2018ah  takes these dictates of nature for granted. While pointing towards this  abhorrence for liquor the Qur\u2019an asks its followers to abstain from  consuming it:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>O  you who believe: this liquor and gambling and idols and these divining  arrows are abominations devised by Satan. Avoid them that you may  succeed. Satan seeks to stir up enmity and hatred among you by means of  liquor and gambling and to keep you from the remembrance of Allah and  from the prayer. Will you not then abstain from them? (5:90-1) <\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>Hence,  it does not mean that we can take as much quantity of wine that does  not cause inebriation. Many things are forbidden because they can  eventually lead one to the undesired state, which we are required to  refrain from. Take for example the matter of fornication. The Holy  Qur\u2019an while giving the directive of the prohibition of fornication  enjoined upon the Muslims not to draw near fornication. That means that  no one should indulge in activities that are likely to lead him or her  into committing fornication. Similarly, one cannot draw a line between  the quantity which casts intoxication and which does not. Therefore, one  cannot be allowed to take even a small amount of it. An Islamic state  can forbid it on the ground of restriction on the means, which are  likely to lead one to the state of inebriation. <\/div>\n<p><strong>Answered by:<\/strong> Tariq Mahmood Hashmi<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> 2015-03-03<\/p>\n<button class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"6890\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Favorite <i class=\"sf-icon-star-empty\"><\/i><\/button>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does the Holy Qur\u2019an specifically declare \u2018alcohol\u2019 or wine prohibited (haram)?  Some people argue that it does not. Therefore, these people contend  that a Muslim can consume alcohol as long as it does not cause a loss of  sanity and he does not fall into the state of mindlessness. 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