THE PROHIBITION OF ALCOHOL - PART 4
One day the blessed Companion (Sahabi) Hazrat And al-Rahman Ibn Awf RAA invited some of his Sahabi friends to his home. After dinner, people started drinking alcohol as was their custom. In the meanwhile the time of Maghrib salah came. Everyone stood up for Salah and and one person was made Imam. The imam began recitation of the Holy Quran but under the influence of alcohol recited the Surah al-Kafirun all wrong. After this incident this second verse about the prohibition of alcohol was revealed:
"O THOSE WHO BELIEVE, DO NOT GO NEAR SALAH WHEN YOU ARE INTOXICATED." (SURAH AL-NISA: 43)
In this verse drinking was declared completely unlawful at the time of the Salah, though not at other times. Some of the noble Companions who had not quit alcohol after the revelation of the first verse, now quit it altogether believing that anything that stops a person from going near Salah cannot be good at all. However, as alcohol had not been declared totally Hara'am at all times some people still kept drinking it.
To be continued...
From Ma'ariful Quran by Mufti Muhammad Shafi RE
One day the blessed Companion (Sahabi) Hazrat And al-Rahman Ibn Awf RAA invited some of his Sahabi friends to his home. After dinner, people started drinking alcohol as was their custom. In the meanwhile the time of Maghrib salah came. Everyone stood up for Salah and and one person was made Imam. The imam began recitation of the Holy Quran but under the influence of alcohol recited the Surah al-Kafirun all wrong. After this incident this second verse about the prohibition of alcohol was revealed:
"O THOSE WHO BELIEVE, DO NOT GO NEAR SALAH WHEN YOU ARE INTOXICATED." (SURAH AL-NISA: 43)
In this verse drinking was declared completely unlawful at the time of the Salah, though not at other times. Some of the noble Companions who had not quit alcohol after the revelation of the first verse, now quit it altogether believing that anything that stops a person from going near Salah cannot be good at all. However, as alcohol had not been declared totally Hara'am at all times some people still kept drinking it.
To be continued...
From Ma'ariful Quran by Mufti Muhammad Shafi RE
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