What is the punishment for the Muslims who drink alcohol?
A Brief Description of the Question:
What is the punishment for the Muslim who drinks alcohol? Please answer my question in the light of Quran and Hadiths.
The Answer:
In Noble Qur’an and in the hadiths drinking alcohol is declared as haram hence it is prohibited and for the violators Hadd punishment is ordered as a punishment in this world. However a there is no clear type and measure of punishment for the afterlife is indicated since the punishment in the afterlife will vary from individual to individual.
We understand that the reason why in the Noble Qur’an has no prescribed certain punishment for drinking alcohol and gambling is because these are personal sins which does not involve any invasion of other people’s rights. That is why the punishments in the Noble Qur’an should be perceived based on this principle. From this perspective we can also consider and interpret this as: The Noble Qur’an has not prescribed any certain punishment for those who abandons the basic requirements of Islam faith such as praying, fasting, alms, and hajj. Allah says “It is for sure that they will return to us. It will be our job to deal with their accounts accordingly.”(Surat al Gasiya: 25-26) which it means every human being will be judged accordingly for their doings in this world.
In some hadiths the type of punishment in the afterlife is told. Sunen patrons tell the story where Mohammed (sallallahu aleyhu vesellem) said: Who drinks alcohol will have his prayers lacking for forty (40) days. If he repents and ask for forgiveness Allah will forgive him. If he keeps doing it after his fourth repentance then Allah will make him to drink the essence of a deadly poison, he surely will deserve that. Then they asked him: O’ Mohammad (sallallahu aleyhu vesellem) what is the essence of the deadly poison? He replied: It is the poison that is in the body of the occupiers of hell. Who would drink alcohol since very young age without considering what is halal what haram is, then Allah will make him drink the poison which is from the body of the hell’s occupiers, and he would deserve that. ( Et-Tac, C.3, sh.126-130)
“Mohammad (sallallahu aleyhu vesellem) has damned the one who makes alcohol, who orders it, who drinks it, who carries it, who orders it to be delivered to him, who distributes it, who sells it, who spends the money that is earned from it, who buys it and who orders it to be bought for himself.”
In Taberani’s story it is said that “In the afterlife Allah will make wine haram to those of you who among my community will die drinking wine. ” (Mecmau’z-Zevaid, 5/146)
Drinking alcohol is definitely prohibited in Surat al Maida verse 90. However the punishment is set through Mohammad’s (sallallahu aleyhu vesellem) application and hadith. Mohammad (sallallahu aleyhu vesellem) and Ebû Bekir (radı-yallahu anh) has punished the violators with 40 times beating with a stick. During the time of Omar (radı-yallahu anh) when alcohol drinkers were getting more and more he consulted his friends and decided to punish the violators with 80 beatings with a stick which is the lightest form of Hadd punishment. (Dârimî, Hudûd,10; A. b. Hanbel, IV, 389).
A man who drank alcohol was brought to Mohammad’s (sallallahu aleyhu vesellem) presence, Mohammad (sallallahu aleyhu vesellem) beat him, they brought him again, he beat him again, they brought him again and he beat him again. (Ebû Dâvûd, Hudûd 35-37)
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