WINE PROVIDES NO CURE

It is stated in a hadîth-i-sherîf: “If a person drinks a mouthful of wine, Allâhu ta’âlâ will be angry with him for three days.” Unless he makes tawba for that sin, for three days he will not be given thawâb for his pious acts or forgiven for his sins. It is feared that he may leave worldly life without îmân if he dies within those three days. If he drinks a goblet of wine, Allâhu ta’âlâ will be angry with him for forty days.

It is stated as follows in books of Fiqh e.g. in Hidâya: That wine made from grapes is harâm is a fact stated unanimously by Islamic scholars. A person who says that it is halâl will become a disbeliever. If a person drinks a drop of it, it will be necessary to flog him for (the chastisement called) hadd. Sa’îd bin Museyyib, (Abû Muhammad Medenî ‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ ’alaih’, one of the greater ones of the Tâbi’în[1], and also one of the greatest seven scholars in Medîna, 15 – 91 [710 A.D.], Medîna,) stated: “Wine consumption was the cause of the acts of perfidy and apostasy that were perpetrated by the past ummats, (i.e. by the Believers of Prophets previous to our Prophet.)” ’Uthmân ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anh’, while making the prescribed speech called Khutba on the minbar of Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ as he was in office as the Amîr-ul-Mu’minîn, admonished: “O you, mankind! Avoid drinking wine! Know this: Drinking wine is the mother of all vices.” A hadîth-i-sherîf reads: “Wine provides no cure; nor does it contain any medicinal quality. It begets illness.”