Zia Sheikh – Ramadan Reminders Day 9

Zia Sheikh
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The speaker discusses the rules and regulations related to alcohol steals, including regulations on the number of hands used and the value attached to it. They also mention the benefits of alcohol, including reducing cholesterol and potentially causing lung cancer. The legal paradigm of alcohol and its potential negative consequences, including the loss of job prospects and social opportunities, is also discussed, with a focus on protecting health and protecting others from the worst types of alcoholism. The period of pro afraid behavior during the Surah of absorption caused harm to others, and the history behind the certificate of alcoholism is also mentioned.
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Some people perceive it to be barbaric and

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very cruel, and one of the next statements

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that comes out whenever the word Sharia law

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is used is cutting off of hands, chopping

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off of people's heads, stoning people to death,

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and so on.

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And one of the verses that is mentioned

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in Surah Al-Ma'idah is the rule

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of cutting the hands of the thief.

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Allah SWT commands this.

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Some people think that it's just a blanket

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policy, that if anybody steals, you just cut

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their hand off.

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But this is not the case.

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There are rules and regulations related to it.

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First and foremost, the thing that is stolen,

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it has to be something valuable.

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It should not be something that doesn't hold

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any value.

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There has to be a minimum value attached

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to it.

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Secondly, the thing needs to be protected.

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So, for example, if you leave your bike

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outside, unlocked, unprotected, unguarded, and somebody steals it,

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then that thief, although he will be punished

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for it, it's not enough for him to

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have his hand cut off because that property

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was not protected.

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It was not locked.

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It was left carelessly.

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So the owner has to bear some responsibility

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for it, and the thief, although he will

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be punished to a lesser degree, but his

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hand will not be cut off.

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The other thing is that the thief himself,

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he must be sane, meaning he must not

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be a crazy person.

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He must be an adult, and he must

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not be needy.

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So, for example, if a person is needy,

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hungry, and he steals food to provide for

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his family, then also he is not to

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be held accountable for these things.

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And on top of that, the person who's

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stealing, the act of stealing, needs to be

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seen by two witnesses who see the act,

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who are interviewed separately by a judge, and

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their story must corroborate, and there must not

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be any conflict between the two.

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After all of these things, then and only

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then, the hand is cut off, and of

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course, this is not done in any type

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of vigilante way, but it has to be

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done where there's an Islamic government and the

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judge passes the rule, and then and only

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then, the hand is cut off.

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Other than that, it's not like a blanket

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policy in Islam that you just cut off

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people's hands.

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This is not the case.

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In any case, the ayah is in Surah

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Al-Ma'idah, وَالسَّارِقَةُ فَطَعُوا أَيْدِيَهُمَا The next

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thing that I want to talk about, which

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is mentioned towards the end of Surah Al

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-Ma'idah, is the prohibition of alcohol, and

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how the alcohol became prohibited ultimately.

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So in the beginning of Islam, there was

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no prohibition on alcohol.

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Some people who were sensible, they asked the

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Prophet ﷺ about it, because they saw the

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negative consequences of alcohol in society, so they

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asked the Prophet ﷺ, which is mentioned in

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Surah Al-Baqarah, يَسْأَلُونَكَ عَنِ الْخَمْرِ وَالْمَيْسِرِ They're

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asking you about alcohol and gambling, you know,

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what is the ruling related to it.

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We see it's negative, but we also see

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that Islam has not prohibited.

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So Allah ﷻ in the beginning, He said,

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فِيهِ مَا إِثْمٌ كَبِيرٌ وَمَنَافِعُ عَنِ النَّاسِ There

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is a huge harm in it, and there

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are some benefits.

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So even to this day and age, doctors

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will tell you that if you have a

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glass of wine at dinner, it reduces cholesterol

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and so on.

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So Allah ﷻ said that 1,400 years

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ago.

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There are benefits in it too.

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But the harm outweighs the benefits.

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وَإِثْمُهُمَا أَكْبَرُ مِن نَفْعِهِمَا So it's like somebody

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tells you that, you know, anything, for example,

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smoking, okay?

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His cigarettes, it will make you feel good

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for a few minutes, but then it's addictive.

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It will give you lung cancer, it will

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give you emphysema, it will give you this

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disease and that disease, okay?

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So the benefit of a small amount of

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relaxation is basically outweighed by so many different

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types of harms that can continue, that will

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harm a person in the future.

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Okay, so this is what Allah ﷻ said

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right at the very beginning when people asked

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him.

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And remember that there were many, many Sahaba

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and the Prophet ﷺ himself who never, ever

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touched alcohol.

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Abu Bakr as-Siddiq was famous for not

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touching alcohol.

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And the Prophet ﷺ never touched alcohol, never

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drank in his life.

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And then there were other Sahaba, by force

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of habit, they had always been drinking.

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And of course, it had not been prohibited

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until later on in Islam, which I'm going

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to talk about.

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So this was the first stage, Allah ﷻ

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said, إِثْمُهُمَّا أَكْبَرُ مِن نَفْعِهِمَا The harm outweighs

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the benefit.

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The next stage was when certain Sahaba, sometimes

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they used to come and after drinking, they

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used to start praying.

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Allah ﷻ revealed the verse, يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ

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آمَنُوا لَا تَقْرَبُوا الصَّلَاةَ وَأَنتُمْ سُكَارًا O people

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of Iman, don't come close to the Salat

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while you are in the state of intoxication.

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Why?

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Because while people were intoxicated, they were reading

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verses of the Qur'an, mixing them up,

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changing the meaning.

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And specifically mentioned in one riwayah is that

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a person was leading the Salat, he said,

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قُلْ يَا أَيُّهَا الْكَافِرُونَ أَعْبُدُوا مَا تَعْبُدُونَ O

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disbelievers, I worship what you also worship.

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So basically, I worship the statues that you

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worship.

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So after these kinds of events started happening,

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Allah ﷻ prohibited people from drinking while coming

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to pray.

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And then obviously, when a person is praying

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five times a day, when is he actually

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going to get to drink?

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Only maybe at night before going to sleep.

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So again, the habit subsided and became less

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and less.

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The third stage took place when it's a

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riwayah of Sa'ad ibn Abi Waqas.

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He mentions that a few Muhajireen and Ansar

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got together in a garden in Madinah, and

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they were basically eating and drinking when it

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got to a point that people got drunk.

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And then the argument started as to who

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was better, the Muhajireen or the Ansar.

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Sa'ad ibn Abi Waqas stood up and

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said, the Muhajireen are better than the Ansar.

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One of the Ansari's, again, drunk.

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He punched him and put a gash on

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his nose.

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He cut his nose up.

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So Sa'ad ibn Abi Waqas came to

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the Prophet ﷺ, complained.

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And then after that, the third stage of

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prohibition came down, which is mentioned in Surah

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Al-Ma'idah.

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So Allah says, O people of Iman, indeed,

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khamr, alcohol, maysir, gambling, ansab, the statues, and

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aslam, which is basically divining or fortune telling

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arrows.

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They are all rids, impure from the habits

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of the shaytan or from the deeds of

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the shaytan.

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Many people, you know what they say?

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They say that Allah didn't say it's haram.

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Okay.

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The verse doesn't say it's haram.

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It only says it's impure.

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So basically, you're allowed to drink it.

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But it's still not good.

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That's what some people actually take from this.

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Well, Allah doesn't say haram for a lot

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of things.

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Okay, for example, Allah says about zina, don't

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get close to zina.

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The word haram is not used.

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Similarly, here Allah is saying it's rich, impure.

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Stay away from it so that you can

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become successful.

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And then Allah says, Indeed,

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the shaytan wants to put enmity and fights

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between you and hatred between you.

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And he wants to prevent you from praying

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the salat and the remembrance of Allah subhanahu

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wa ta'ala.

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So people who get drunk, they forget their

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obligations to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

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They forget their dhikr.

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They forget their salat.

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And then at the end, فَهَلْ أَنْتُمْ مُنْتَهُونَ

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Are you going to stop?

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The sahaba, when they heard this verse, they

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said, انتَهَيْنَا And the riwayat of Anas bin

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Malik r.a, he says that I was

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in the house of Abu Talha r.a

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who had a hobby of collecting different types

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of wines and so on.

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I was actually pouring the wine when somebody

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called out in the street that the prohibition

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of alcohol has come down.

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Abu Talha said, Pour it out.

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Get rid of everything.

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So everything that was in his house, it

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was poured out.

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Everything that was in the house of the

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sahaba, it was poured out to such a

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degree that it's mentioned that the streets of

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Madinah were full of wine and alcohol.

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They didn't ask to and they didn't wait

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to investigate to see whether it was true

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or not.

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As soon as the order came, everything became

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prohibited.

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So now living in a society where it's

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so easy for us to get alcohol, nobody's

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going to prevent us because it's not illegal

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in this country to drink, right?

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Once you're 18 or 21, whatever the legal

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age is, you can drink alcohol.

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So as Muslims, we have kind of like

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there's a stigma associated with drinking.

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But the next generation, they don't have that

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kind of stigma anymore.

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Why?

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Because the friends around them, they're drinking.

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They're drinking in college, they're drinking in high

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school, they're drinking in parties.

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So we really need to make sure that

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our young, they're not exposed to this type

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of thing.

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Or we need to talk to our young

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to make sure that they don't fall into

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the trap of these kinds of things.

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And also we need to understand many people,

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and this is one of the biggest things

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that Muslims are involved in, is alcohol being

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sold in convenience stores.

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And the majority of the people that run

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these convenience stores, unfortunately, happen to be Muslims.

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Remember the Prophet, he mentioned in Hadith that

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Allah curses six types of people.

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Every single person that is involved in the

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production of alcohol, all the way until the

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selling and consumption of alcohol.

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The person who squeezes the grapes, the person

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who puts the wine inside the barrels, and

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then the one who carries it, the one

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who carries it to the market, the one

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who sells it, the one who buys it,

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the one who drinks it.

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Every single person who is associated with the

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consumption, or the production, or the selling of

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alcohol, has been cursed by Allah subhanahu wa

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ta'ala.

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So this is the reason for this, this

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is the detrimental effect that it has on

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society.

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So that's why when some sensible people in

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the 1920s tried to prohibit alcohol, there was

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an era here which was called the era

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of prohibition, when alcohol was banned from society,

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but it didn't work out, because people were

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not ready to accept it.

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But the reality is that alcohol is the

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worst type of drug, it is addictive, and

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people who get into this cycle of alcoholism,

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it is very very difficult for them to

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pull out, and that's the reason that Allah

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subhanahu wa ta'ala has prohibited it, and

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this was the whole story behind the prohibition

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of alcohol.

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I pray that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

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gives us Sufiq non-Islam, or has been

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sent in her.

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