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were taught the lesson of purity and cleanliness so that they themselves could realise the harmful and damaging effects of alcohol and thus begin to detest it. When a few unpleasant incidents happened, which were the consequence of alcoholism, everybody started feeling resentment towards alcohol. And so, the ultimate commandment regarding the absolute prohibition of alcohol was imposed.
صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب صَلَّى اللّٰهُ تَعَالٰى عَلٰى مُحَمَّد
Two bowls were presented in the court of the Beloved Prophet صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم in the Night of Mi’rāj (Ascension). There was milk in one bowl and alcohol in the other and he was allowed to choose any one from the two. Hence, the Most Beloved Prophet صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم chose the bowl of milk, it was then said, ‘You have chosen nature because if you had opted for the bowl of alcohol then your Ummaĥ would have gone astray.’ (Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, pp. 104, Ḥadīš 169; Ṣaḥīḥ Bukhārī, vol. 2, pp. 437, Ḥadīš 3394)
Maulānā Naqī ‘Alī Khān رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه has mentioned in his book, ‘اَلۡكَلَامُ الۡاَوضَحۡ فِيۡ تَفۡسِيۡرِ سُوۡرَة اَلَمۡ نَشۡرَحۡ’ which is famously known as ‘Anwār-e-Jamāl-e-Mustafa’: Alcohol is a cause of heedlessness, and heedlessness is the outcome of worldliness. It is commonly observed that an intoxicated person walks about here and there unconsciously, and the one who cannot find an overt path, how would he be able to find the covert (spiritual) path! If one
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