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Have you read the Nairaland rules? Please construct your english sentences well.

A 40 sef dey dis calibre too! Whoever told y'all that Mikel is not happy for this team ehn?

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about 8000 posts

Is naija in the relay final?

Some people believe slapping ya gf shows CARE to her -what do you say about that?

Drinking and Brewing aren't the same - are tehy?

98% != All


100% = All


So, mecussey stop misleading

always read the TERMS AND CONDITIONS of any promo before 'logging' in.

deleson:
I'm almost losing encourage,

this is the second time am seeing this post.

What do you mean

Toriola was kicked out this morning

let me post something a guy called sadat wrote on yahoo answers:

Why Alcohol is forbidden gradually?
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We need to step back just for a moment into the world of pre-Islamic Arabia to see where this prohibition comes from and how the early Muslims were led, little by little, to give up drinking alcohol altogether.



Allah never asks of us more than we can do, so His injunction against alcohol was delivered in stages. Life in the Arabian Peninsula before Islam was very harsh and people had to be very tough in order to survive. Not only the inhospitable nature of the land, but fierce feuding between tribes, the despicable practice of burying unwanted female babies alive, slavery, and immorality were common.



The people turned to worshipping idols as their way out, beseeching statues of wood and stone to save them. The drinking of alcohol and its associated drunkenness and bad behavior were symptoms of the solace they sought from life's troubles. Alcohol was readily available and shops selling it were open at all times to quench the people's thirst for respite from their woes.



When the message of Islam was first delivered, then, alcohol was readily available and frequently consumed. At first, the Muslims were told in the Qur'an that they should not turn up drunk for the Prayers in the mosque:



*{O you who believe! Approach not prayers with a mind befogged, until you can understand all that you say}* (An-Nisaa' 4:43)



How could they concentrate on praising Allah if their minds were clouded by strong drink? It still remained possible, though, for them to continue consuming wine and other beverages. At a later stage, another revelation was received which told them that there was some good to be found in alcohol, as people would tell us today, but that this was outweighed by the bad:



*{They ask you concerning alcohol and gambling. Say: ‘In them is a great sin, and some benefits for men, but the sin is far greater than the benefits.}* (Al-Baqarah 2:219)



Muslims began to question, after the revelation of this verse, whether perhaps drinking alcohol was the best thing for them to do, even though it was not yet forbidden, and many stopped drinking from this time onward. Drunkenness began to be seen as something shameful and not befitting the high moral standards of which Muslims were called to be the best examples. Muslims would help each other in giving up alcohol, supporting and encouraging those who found it difficult.



Finally, a verse was revealed to the Muslims in Madinah which totally forbade alcohol:



*{You who believe! Intoxicants and gambling, (dedication of) stones, and (divination by) arrows, are an abomination of Satan's handiwork. Eschew such abomination, that you may prosper. Satan's plan is (but) to excite enmity and hatred between you, with intoxicants and gambling, and hinder you from the remembrance of Allah, and from prayer; will you not then abstain?}* (Al-Ma'idah 5:90-91)



From that day forward, alcohol became forbidden. The word used in the Qur'an, by the way, is Al-khamr, which comes from a word meaning "to ferment," so it is usually translated as wine or alcohol. However, as more modern mind-altering drugs have become available, these, too, have been understood to fall within the prohibition.






The early Muslims could not have known what recent medical and scientific studies have shown about alcohol. They could not have known, for example, that it acts as a depressant to the nervous system and that it can cause shrinking of the brain and even senility. They could not have known that alcohol can affect the digestive system, cause high blood pressure, even in small amounts increase the risk of brain hemorrhage and strokes, or that it can affect sleep patterns. Subhan Allah that these things were prevented for Muslims 1400 years ago!



So, the answer to why alcohol is forbidden is clear: It is harmful to us. It is harmful to us, physically, and it also harms us as people. Why would we, as Muslims, need to take solace in drink? One of the saddest features of life in the Western world, for example, is how workers look forward all week long to the end of the week when they can go out together to the pub. This often leads to drunkenness and a lowering of one's guard, which in turn leads to other bad behaviors. How sad that many people, because of loneliness and depression, turn to drink and to drugs to fill in that desperate need for affection or fulfillment in life. What a tragedy that alcohol has torn apart families and broken many lives and careers.



In a world where they feel loved and respected, people would not need these artificial stimulants to make them feel good. One of the amazing features of the Muslim world is that Muslims can go out together for fun and can be genuinely happy, without even thinking of the need for alcohol.



It is a pity that many non-Muslims consider the consumption of alcohol a social necessity, whereas it is not a necessity at all. A glass of wine or a glass of whisky is just not necessary to have fun, so why increase the risk of illness as a result? Why allow your mind to become less than lucid because of alcohol and other intoxicants? Why make a fool of yourself in front of others or say things which you might regret later, when you can socialize with friends and family just as easily over fruit juices or soft drinks?



The fact is that people crave happiness and they will find it in whatever form they know. The pursuit of material things, the relentless urge to improve one's position at the expense of others and the desperate need to be wanted are all symptoms of a society without faith. For Muslims, there is no need for drugs or strong drink. Happiness comes from strong family values and for the respect which we give to each other as true brothers and sisters. The real happiness in life, though, comes from Almighty Allah, the source of all goodness. We can show the rest of the world what life is really about by the way we live as good Muslims.



Brother Mohsen Haredy, a member of Ask About Islam Editorial Staff, would like to add the following:



When Islam prohibited alcohol and drugs, it prohibited them whether they are taken in much or little amounts. If a person is allowed to take the little, the much will be taken later. This prohibition is based on the Shari`ah objective of maintaining and keeping safe one's mind. `Abdullah ibn `Umar reported that: I heard `Umar (ibn Al-Khattab) while he was on the pulpit of the Prophet saying, "Now then O people! The revelation about the prohibition of alcoholic drinks was revealed, and alcoholic drinks are extracted from five things: grapes, dates, honey, wheat, and barley. And the alcoholic drink is that which confuses and stupefies the mind." (Al-Bukhari)



The Prophet is reported to have said:



Of that which intoxicates in a large amount, a small amount is haram. (Ahmad, Abu Dawud and At-Tirmidhi)



If a bucketful intoxicates, a sip of it (the thing that intoxicates) is haram. (Abu Dawud and At-Tirmidhi.)

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Thanks for your patience.

littleb:
There is no logic here and I think I ve not tell you that. MUSLIM CANT WORK IN BREWERY. By brewery, we mean where alcohol is being produced.

thank you.

@ foto I didn't refer to brewery in that post.

olabowale:
Since the girl is been able to fast secretly and survive, she should continue to do it secretly. She knows herself more than the father knows her. However Allah knows her well and best. It maybe that it is her effort, secretly in the worship of Allah that has sustained her.

Finally, Allah says that one should disobey the parents, if they are leading one to disobey Allah, and, (or) the Messenger.

Mukina needs to be explicit here. What sort of sickness does this girl have?


I think the qur'an is clear on this;

A sick person: may break his fast which, if continued, would only aggravate the illness or delay its cure.

The following two 'ayat support this point: "And do not kill yourselves, Allah is ever Merciful to you," and "He has not laid upon you in your religion any hardship." If a sick person or a traveler fast and withstand the hardships of the fast, and continue to fast while feeling the hardship, their fast will be valid but disliked, for they did not accept the concession Allah gave him, thereby causing himself much hardship and the Prophet (S) said: "Allah loves to give allowances just as He hates that you commit sins".

This girl in question should obey her dad.

Allah knows best.

Stop going offtopic:

USE has definitions as noun and verb.

PHRASE:

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The term full stop is rarely used by speakers in Canada and never in the United States, but is by far the more common term used in British English. If it is used in Canada, it may be generally differentiated from period in contexts where both might be used: a full stop is specifically a delimiting piece of punctuation that represents the end of a sentence.[citation needed] When a distinction is made, a period is then any appropriately sized and placed dot in English language text, including use in abbreviations (such as US.) and at the ends of sentences, but excluding certain special uses of dots at the bottom of a line of text, such as ellipses.

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Good 'un

NASFAT is not a sect in Islam; it's an Islamic organization.

Do you repair fake fones hay?

Queenisha.

Did you investigate every 'northern smoker' to confirm his/her religion status?


I've seen some who are Muslims who smoke but the truth is, most of them know not that it is haram.



When we usually use the word alcohol usually we mean Ethyle alcohol. There are useful other uses of alcohol. Islam forbids the drinking because that is harmful for us.

"Alcohol is used as fuel for cars!! What would a Muslim do in these cases??"

“They ask you (O Muhammad) concerning alcoholic drink and gambling. Say: ‘In them is a great sin, and (some) benefits for men, but the sin of them is greater than their benefit’”