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The Prohibition of Consumption of Alcoholic Drinks - Al-Shia The Scientific and Cultural Website of Shia belief The Prohibition of Consumption of Alcoholic Drinks 2022-10-20 586 Views Alcoholic Drinks Liquor and alcoholic Drinks is one of the prohibited drinks in Islam. Meanwhile, it is very important to know the philosophy of prohibition of the consumption of liquor and alcoholic Drinks.

Therefore, the present article aims to explain why the consumption of liquor and alcoholic Drinks is prohibited in Islam.

Contents Effects of alcohol on age The effects of alcohol on the offspring Effects of alcohol on the morals a) The social harms of alcohol b) The economic harms of alcoholic drinks It is pertinent to mention that there are many reasons for this prohibition including the following: Effects of alcohol on age A distinguished Western scholar claims that for every 51 deaths amongst youths aged between 21 and 23 years who are addicted to alcoholic beverages, there are not even 10 deaths amongst those youths not addicted to alcohol.

Another reputed scholar has proved that a significant number of 20-year-old youths, who are expected to live up to the age of 50 years, do not live beyond 35 years as a result of the consumption of alcohol. According to experiments conducted by ‘life insurance’ companies, it has been established that the life span of those addicted to alcohol is 25 – 30 per cent less than that of those not addicted to it.

Another statistic reveals that the average age of those addicted to alcohol is between 35 years and 50 years, whereas the average age of non-addicts, when hygienic and sanitary issues are observed, is above 60 years.

The effects of alcohol on the offspring If a person happens to be intoxicated at the time of conception, 35 per cent of the acute alcoholic effects are passed on to the child and if both – the husband and the wife – were to be intoxicated, 100 per cent of the acute effects are transferred to the child.

In order that the effects of alcohol on children to be better comprehended, we seek to present some statistics here: Of the children having been born prematurely, 45% of them had fathers and mothers, both of whom were alcoholics, 31% had mothers who were alcoholics and 17% had fathers who were alcoholics. 6% of infants, who died shortly after birth, had alcoholic fathers while 45% of them had alcoholic mothers.