10-28-2006, 03:45 AM
Quote:Bismillah
As we decided to reply to this thread in order to properly explain and clarify the confusion which may rise here. I was late in correcting this major false statement, as the thread starter is totally confused about the meaning of this noble Ayah:
Here u will Insh a Allah find the proper explanation for this particular Ayah and more Ayahs addressing the same issue:
http://islamsms.com/bb/index.php?showt...hl=Sabians&st=0
Regarding the alcohol drinking, the second and last stage of making alcohol strictly prohibited:
"O you who believe! Intoxicants (all kinds of alcoholic drinks), gambling, Al Ansaab, and Al Azlaam (arrows for seeking luck or decision) are an abomination of Shaytaan's (Satan) handiwork. So avoid (strictly all) that (abomination) in order that you may be successful." (Quran 5:90)
Because we are looking forward for readers not to be confused.
In Arabic the word ejtanebouh which is translated as avoid is more effective in the sense that prohibited. ejtanabouh means to totally stay away from, that is why the Messenger salla Allah a`lyhee wa sallam explained in a hadeeth that we should not sit with one who drinks, serve alcohol, buy it or sell leave alone drinking it. Alhamdulelah.
Allah Is Great! I have not been posting here recently as I have been very busy in dialogue with Atheist and Christians. However God led me here today to respond to this post. Surely it is known that Muhammad(PBUH) was sent to the pagan arabs at a time when drinking heavily and debauchery was rampant. I don't say what is lawful or what is unlawful. Some things are prifitable a little and some a lot but either way Allah gives to whom He pleases. If any man says Allah has allowed him to do a thing you would be better off not telling that man what Allah did not permit for if you are wrong you are being wrong not to that man but to Allah. This is why I tell Christians that it would be better if they not say disrespectful things about Allah(thinking He is a different God than the one they know) I explain to them The God of Jesus is Allah it would be better for you to refrain from speaking what you do noy know. If there will be rivers of wine in paradise and I am in Paradise even now should I wait to drink what God allows me to drink? Yet, everyone has not attained the knowledge of paradise. For God is The Giver here and in the next life.
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YUSUFALI: (Here is) a Parable of the Garden which the righteous are promised: in it are rivers of water incorruptible; rivers of milk of which the taste never changes; <b>rivers of wine, a joy to those who drink</b>; and rivers of honey pure and clear. In it there are for them all kinds of fruits; and Grace from their Lord. (Can those in such Bliss) be compared to such as shall dwell for ever in the Fire, and be given, to drink, boiling water, so that it cuts up their bowels (to pieces)?