Is Alcohol Consumption A Sin?
Thanks Saad. Unlike items that are explicitly prohibited in Quran, eating pig, eating blood or charging interest on money loans, alcohol consumption is not explicitly prohibited in Quran, but it sounds like an advice to stay away from Alcohol. It seems like Alcohol consumption is a path towards sin and thus path has to be blocked. It makes sense, but in many other cases, the path to sin itself is not considered sin until a sin is committed. Such as meeting women in private or chatting with them without an essential reason. So why alcohol is a sin and for example meeting women in private is not a sin?
Lust for women do not consume human reasoning immediately, lust clouds judgment over time. But alcohol can take human reasoning immediately. Human personality and intellect is very sacred to God and He does not like it when a man kills it with alcohol and become a creature of desires and instinct under intoxication. It is also Allah’s mercy that He did not prescribe a punishment for going near zina otherwise it is a minor sin and He could have put a punishment for it, but He choose to be tolerant and let individual handle it. The thing that is interesting though, Allah calls alcohol as dirty satanic actions. Not many actions get this name from Allah, it shows that is more than just an advice, He really hates it. Now the question for a Muslim is not following Satan is just an ‘advice’ or a serious matter considering Allah calls Satan an open enemy (not even a indirect one).