Fariq Naik – Evils of Alcoholism
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The speaker discusses the definition of alcohol as a disease, rather than a addiction. The definition is based on scripture's incorporated definition of alcohol as a means of entertainment, not a disease. The definition is stated in various ways, including in Surah Al Lim Pullah, chapter 30, and in chapter 3,380. The definition is not a disease, but rather a means of entertainment.
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That's the reason
our beloved prophet Muhammad
said, it's mentioned in Surah Al Lim Majah,
chapter number 30.
Hadith number
3872.
That alcohol, it is the mother of all
evils, and it is the most
shameful evil.
It is mentioned in Surah ibn Majah, chapter
number 30, at least number 3,393.
That
anything that intoxicate in large quantity
is even prohibited in small quantity.
It's mentioned from
chapter number 30. Hadith number 3,380.
There are the 10 categories of people who
are cursed by Allah
who deal with alcohol.
The person who distills it, the person for
whom it is distilled, the person who drinks
it, the person who serves it, the person
who buys it, the person who buys it
for someone else, the person who transports it,
the person who transports it for someone else,
the person who sells it, and the person
who uses the revenue of it. These are
the 10 categories of people who are cursed
by Allah
who deal with alcohol.
The medical doctors, they tell us that alcoholism,
it is not an addiction, but it is
a disease.
So they say that you need to feel
sympathetic
towards a sick alcoholic person.
You know how you show kindness,
how you show solace
to a sick person. Similarly, they say, the
medical doctors, that alcoholism, it is a disease.
If alcoholism is a disease, then it is
the only disease that is sold in bottles,
advertised in the newspapers,
in the magazines, on radio broadcast stations, on
television satellite channels. It is the only disease
that has license outlet to legally spread it.
That brings revenue for the government. It is
the only disease that destroys family lives, brings
violent deaths on highways. And it is the
only disease that increases crime.
And it is the only disease that has
no germ or viral cause.
That's the reason Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says,
is Surah Maidah, chapter number 5, verse number
90.
Are an abomination
from Satan's handiwork.
Abstain
from such abomination
that ye may prosper.
So alcoholism,
it is not a disease, but it's Satan's
handiwork. Abstain from it, that ye may prosper.
So most of the major world religious scriptures,
they prohibit having alcohol.