Drinking alcohol is considered haram or forbidden in Islam. As proof of the ban, Islamic scholars and Muslim religious authorities often point to a verse from the Quran, the Muslim holy book, which calls intoxicants “the work of Satan” and tells believers to avoid them. Allah has clearly mentioned in the Quran that alcohol is prohibited and falls into the category of sin if consumed intentionally. Islamic countries have low rates of alcohol consumption.
However, a minority of Muslims drink despite religious prohibitions. Muslim-majority countries produce a variety of regional distilled beverages, such as arrack and rakı. There is a long tradition of viticulture in the Middle East, particularly in Egypt (where it is legal) and Iran (where it is prohibited). That confused me when I moved last year, because drinking is a popular pastime here and Tunisia has a surprisingly wide range of quality local wines.
Since the second category of punishment was specific to Hanafis (other schools punish alcohol consumption regardless of intoxication), they had to include a legal definition of drunkenness. Ha ha, it reminds me of the movie The Thirteenth Warrior, in which Muslims refuse to drink until they learn that Viking mead is made of honey. However, during Ramadan, many Muslim drinkers abstain from consuming wine, beer or liquors of their own free will throughout the month, just as some aging Christians abandon the vice of Lent but never set foot in a church, except for baptisms, weddings and funerals, or some secular Jews who eat bacon continue to avoid bread at Easter. I abandoned Ramadan and abandoned every trace of faith at the dawn of this millennium, and now I do drink alcohol during the fast.
Muslims are truly fortunate to lead healthy and sober lives, those who want to obey the Almighty God. In linguistic terms, Khamr (), an Arabic word used to refer to alcoholic beverages such as wine obtained from grapes. There are many more passages where Mohammed drinks wine, both in the morning and at night. The Quran, in different translations, states that wine (intoxicating substances) comes from date palms and vines, so technically you can drink beer or liquor from different plants and Allah (swt) knows best.
The Prophet Mohammed himself, who is a model for Muslims to follow, drank wine, as did his companions and Jesus, who in Islam is also considered a prophet. While the difficulty in finding alcohol during Ramadan is not the greatest injustice in a country where many thousands of people languish behind bars, the rules have always seemed unfair to me for Egyptian drinkers, especially for Christians, who generally have no religious restrictions on alcohol consumption. Everything he has written are branches, according to Islamic thought, no one can drink wine or alcohol at all.
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