05-22-2004, 06:45 AM
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<b>Allah, in order to forbade alcohl drinking took a gradual approach</b>.
<b>The Creator Took in consideration that people at that time were so much into alcohl which would make it difficult to give it up immediately.</b>
1. The first ruling was revealed regarding alcohl was here:
\"They ask you (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) concerning alcoholic drink and gambling.[4] Say: \"In them is a great sin, and (some) benefit for men, but the sin of them is greater than their benefit.\" (Quran 2:219).
When this was revealed a group of people stopped drinking while others didnt, they said let us just take the beneift therein.
<b>2. then was followed by:
</b>
\"O you who believe! Approach not As-Salât (the prayer) when you are in a drunken state until you know (the meaning) of what you utter\" (Quran 4:43).
when a companion leaded people for prayer and faulted while reciting surat Kaferoun, so Allah revealed this Ayah.
<b>Still a group stopped and another didnt, they said let us avoid prayer timings
</b>.
<b>3. Until Allah revealed the following Ayah</b>
\"O you who believe! Intoxicants (all kinds of alcoholic drinks), and gambling, and Al-Ansâb[1], and Al-Azlâm (arrows for seeking luck or decision) are an abomination of Shaitan’s (Satan) handiwork. So avoid (strictly all) that (abomination) in order that you may be successful.[2] * 91. Shaitân (Satan) wants only to excite enmity and hatred between you with intoxicants (alcoholic drinks) and gambling, and hinder you from the remembrance of Allâh and from As-Salât (the prayer). So, will you not then abstain?\" (Quran 5:90-91)