09-19-2006, 07:52 PM
salam alaykum.
alchol itself is okay to consume in small amounts. it can be used in medicine to clean wounds or whatever. But drinking it is forbidden for several important reasons:
1) It's harmful. Since you are not allowed to break a commandment, you are not allowed to harm yourself. Drinking alchol is harmful. It damages the liver, destroys brain cells, whatever. Do some research.
2) By drinking alchol you disobey God's Law in the Qur'an. Thus you are disobeying God. You don't have a proper reason e.g. drinking alchol is needed because the doctor said that is the only thing that can help your health improve (i know that would never happen, but i can't think of another example).
3) By drinking alchol, you might go to pubs. In pubs, flirtation, and so on occurs. You hang out with the wrong crowd. Therefore you become like the crowd gradually. It is very important to hang out with good people. The pub does not have a good crowd.
You can make one or two good friends, but too many bad people hang out there.
4) Drunk. Being drunk is very bad because you could do something very regrettable. It is safe for the society for example if you drive while not drunk. Drunk driving kills. Also you could blasmphese, swear, insult Allah, disrespect the Qur'an...you could commit major sins. You might even kill. Be very careful with drunkness.
There is also the possibilty of alchol invalidating your wuthu, but i have no idea if it does. You need to check that.
All those reasons are examples of why you should stop drinking. Mainly because it is bad for you and disobeying Allah's commands.
may God bless you.