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where wine has become a part of their local culture, prohibition for the people is quite strange. The increasing rate of alcoholism amongst the youth of the country and particularly those aged up to 11 years has become a means of severe apprehension. Currently there is a ban on under-16s on buying alcohol from pubs, restaurants, pizza and alcoholic outlets. If the law is not complied with, the parents or the shop owner, where from the alcohol is bought, will face fine.
Dear Islamic brothers! The countries of the world, who claim to be civilised, are doing everything possible to save their young generation from the harms of alcohol and heavy penalties are being imposed upon people in this regard. However let us see how Islam has instructed the Ummaĥ in terms of prohibiting alcohol.
Alcohol had become an integral part of life in the Arab culture and to distance people from it was not easy. Therefore, Islam initially made people aware of the harmful effects of alcohol so that their want for alcohol could be replaced with hatred. Gradually it was ruled as Ḥarām forever. There are many sayings of the Beloved and Blessed Prophet صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم for our guidance in this regard which have clearly stated how to refrain from it, understand its harms and to gain the Madanī mindset of refraining from it along with the message of reflecting about the afterlife.
Those who were rescued from the valleys of unbelief and entered the fold of Islam were aware of the worth and value of their Īmān (faith). They had obtained that treasure after so
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