Prohibition of Wine, Gambling, and Adultery and Their Grave Consequences
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Wine Drinking – Islamic Teachings and Severe Warnings
Every Intoxicant Is Wine and Prohibited
- Ibn Umar (RA): The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said:
“Every intoxicant is wine, and every wine is forbidden. Whoever drinks wine in this world and dies without repentance will be deprived of it in the Hereafter.”
(Bukhari 5575, Muslim 2003)
The Punishment of Teenat al-Khabal
- Jabir (RA): The Prophet ﷺ said:
“Allah has promised to make those who drink intoxicants drink Teenat al-Khabal.”
He was asked: What is Teenat al-Khabal?
He replied: “The sweat of the inhabitants of Hell, or the discharge from their bodies (blood, pus, etc.).”
(Muslim 2002)
Prayers Rejected Due to Intoxication
- Ibn Umar (RA): The Prophet ﷺ said:
“Whoever drinks wine and becomes intoxicated, Allah will not accept his prayers for forty days. If he dies in that state, he will enter the Fire. But if he repents, Allah accepts his repentance.”
(Ibn Majah 3377, Nasa’i 5670)
Complete Curse Related to Wine
- Ibn Umar (RA): The Prophet ﷺ said:
“Allah has cursed wine, its drinker, its server, its seller, its buyer, its presser, the one for whom it is pressed, the one who carries it, the one to whom it is carried, and the one who consumes its price.”
(Abu Dawud 3674)
Other Intoxicants Are Also Forbidden
Since every intoxicant is wine, the following are also haram:
❀ Cannabis (bhang)
❀ Hashish (charas)
❀ Opium
❀ Heroin
❀ Cocaine
❀ Narcotic injections
All are strictly prohibited with extremely severe consequences.
Gambling – Strict Prohibition and Warning
Clear Instructions from the Qur’an
يَسْأَلُونَكَ عَنِ الْخَمْرِ وَالْمَيْسِرِ ۖ قُلْ فِيهِمَا إِثْمٌ كَبِيرٌ (البقرہ 219)
“They ask you about wine and gambling. Say: In them is great sin.”
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا إِنَّمَا الْخَمْرُ وَالْمَيْسِرُ وَالْأَنصَابُ وَالْأَزْلَامُ... (المائدہ 90-91)
“O you who believe! Intoxicants, gambling, stone alters, and divining arrows are abominations of Satan’s work, so avoid them that you may be successful. Satan only wishes to create enmity and hatred between you through wine and gambling and to hinder you from the remembrance of Allah and from prayer. So will you not desist?”
Betting Is Gambling
Any form of betting where money is staked on results is also gambling, such as:
- “If this happens, you give me this much money.”
- “If it doesn’t, I will give you.”
This too is strictly haram.
Expiation for Calling to Gambling
- Abu Hurairah (RA): The Prophet ﷺ said:
“Whoever says to his companion: ‘Come, let us gamble,’ must give charity as expiation.”
(Bukhari 4860, Muslim 1647)
Adultery – One of the Gravest Sins in Shari‘ah
A Major Sin Forbidden by Allah
وَلَا تَقْرَبُوا الزِّنَىٰ... (بنی اسرائیل 32)
“Do not even approach adultery. Indeed, it is an abomination and an evil way.”
الزَّانِيَةُ وَالزَّانِي فَاجْلِدُوا... (النور 2)
“The fornicatress and the fornicator—flog each one of them with a hundred stripes, and let no compassion withhold you from enforcing the law of Allah, if you truly believe in Allah and the Last Day.”
Faith Leaves at the Time of Zina
- Abu Hurairah (RA): The Prophet ﷺ said:
“When a person commits adultery, faith leaves him, remaining above him like a cloud. When he stops, faith returns to him.”
(Abu Dawud 4690, Tirmidhi 2625)
The Severe Warning for an Old Adulterer
- Abu Hurairah (RA): The Prophet ﷺ said:
“Three people Allah will neither speak to on the Day of Resurrection, nor purify them, nor look at them, and for them is a painful punishment:
➊ An old man who commits adultery
➋ A lying king
➌ An arrogant poor person”
(Muslim 107)
The Punishment of Adulterers in a Dream
- Samurah ibn Jundub (RA): The Prophet ﷺ saw in a dream adulterers inside a furnace-shaped pit. When the fire blazed, they rose up until nearly escaping, but when it subsided, they fell back into it.
(Bukhari 7047)
Severe Punishment for Marriage with Forbidden Women
- Bara’ ibn ‘Azib (RA):
“The Prophet ﷺ sent a man to kill someone who had married his father’s wife and to confiscate his wealth.”
(Abu Dawud 4457)
Protecting the Honor of Mujahideen
- Buraidah (RA):
“Whoever takes responsibility for the family of a Mujahid and then betrays them, he will be brought before that Mujahid on the Day of Resurrection, and the Mujahid will take from his good deeds as he pleases until he is satisfied.”
(Muslim 1897)
Means to Block the Causes of Zina
➊ Lowering the Gaze
قُل لِّلْمُؤْمِنِينَ يَغُضُّوا... (النور 30-31)
Believing men and women are commanded to lower their gaze and guard their modesty.
- Ibn Abbas (RA):
“The zina of the eyes is looking (at the forbidden).”
(Bukhari 6243, Muslim 2657)
➋ Avoiding Seclusion with Non-Mahram
- Uqbah ibn ‘Amir (RA): The Prophet ﷺ said:
“Beware of entering upon women.”
A man asked: What about the brother-in-law?
He said: “The brother-in-law is death.”
(Bukhari 5232, Muslim 2172)
➌ Women Wearing Perfume in Public
- Abu Musa (RA): The Prophet ﷺ said:
“A woman who applies perfume and passes by people so they smell her fragrance is like an adulteress.”
(Tirmidhi 2786)
➍ Travel without a Mahram
- Ibn Abbas (RA): The Prophet ﷺ said:
“No woman should travel without a Mahram.”
(Bukhari 1862, Muslim 1341)
➎ Touching Non-Mahram
- The Prophet ﷺ said:
“The zina of the hand is touching (the forbidden).”
(Muslim 2657)
➏ The Command of Hijab
يَا أَيُّهَا النَّبِيُّ قُل لِّأَزْوَاجِكَ... (الاحزاب 59)
“O Prophet! Tell your wives, your daughters, and the women of the believers to draw their cloaks over themselves.”
Fashionable Dress and Deprivation from Paradise
- The Prophet ﷺ said:
“Two groups of the people of Hell I have not seen:
➊ People with whips like cow tails, beating people
➋ Women who are clothed yet naked, attracting men and attracted to them, with their heads like the humps of camels.
They will never enter Paradise nor smell its fragrance.”
(Muslim 2128)
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