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He صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم stated, ‘This is the biggest of sins and is the root of all evils, the one drinking alcohol misses his Ṣalāĥ and (sometimes) he commits adultery even with his mother, his maternal aunt or his paternal aunt’. (Majma’-uz-Zawāid, vol. 5, pp. 104, Ḥadīš 8174)
We have understood from the aforementioned saying of the Most Blessed Prophet صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم that alcohol is not only a cause of harms to the alcoholic but its misfortune affects the alcoholic’s entire family. The family’s honour and reputation suffers, the children begin to detest their father who constantly remains in a state of intoxication. This is because they remain deprived of their father’s affection; they do not receive anything from their father other than scolding and beating. Eventually the whole system of the household is ruined.
Imām Abul Farāj ‘Abdur Raḥmān bin
‘Alī Muḥaddiš Jauzī
عَـلَيْهِ رَحْـمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ
الۡـقَـوِی (died in 597A.H.) has mentioned
that in some cases alcohol makes the alcoholic’s wife unlawful for him and he indulges
in adultery. This occurs in the situation where the alcoholic frequently becomes so intoxicated that he gives divorce
and sometimes he breaks his oaths
unconsciously and commits adultery
with his wife who had been unlawful for him by virtue of that oath. It is the verdict of some Ṣaḥābaĥ
رَضِىَ
الـلّٰـهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُم,
‘Whoever marries his daughter to an alcoholic it is as if he has presented his
daughter for adultery.’ (Baḥr-ud-Dumū’, pp. 215)
According to a recent survey conducted in Britain, the chances of becoming addicted to alcohol are double for those children who are exposed to drunken parents. According to those carrying out the survey, the association with the habit of
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