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lady made her drink from wine glass. Out of intoxication, he kept on asking for more and more. He continued drinking until he committed fornication with the woman and also murdered the boy.’ The Beloved Prophet صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم further said, ‘Therefore, you keep refraining from alcohol. Īmān (Faith) and the habit of drinking alcohol cannot coexist in one’s heart; (if one will do so) out of Īmān and alcohol, one will eject the other.’ (Al-Iḥsān bittartīb Ṣaḥīḥ Ibn Ḥibbān, vol. 7, pp. 367, Ḥadīš 5324)
Dear Islamic brothers! When that pious person was asked to commit fornication, he refused. When he was given the option of committing murder, he refused, but when he was asked to drink alcohol, that poor pious man thought that the last option would save him from the very harmful acts of fornication and murder. And so, he drank the alcohol but due to its curse he ended up committing both the other major sins. Actually, he unfortunately chose the key to sins. By his choosing the sin of drinking alcohol, it opened many other doors of sins for him. Islam has declared alcohol as Ḥarām forever due to these very destructive outcomes. In addition to several other detrimental evils, drinking alcohol has also become a cult of our society. It has destroyed the very fabric of society. In the past, people used to drink alcohol secretly. They would drink secretly so that nobody could see them.
It has been reported that once Amīr-ul-Mūminīn Sayyidunā ‘Umar Fārūq رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُ was walking through one of the streets of Madīnaĥ Munawwaraĥ. He رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُ saw a young man who had a bottle hidden in his clothes. He رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُ asked, ‘O young man! What are you hiding in your clothes?’ The bottle
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