The Destructive Power Of Alcohol

Abu Darda(ra) narrated that the Messenger of Allah (saws) said: Don't drink wine for it is the key to every evil.

[Al-Tirmidhi]

Explanation: Alcohol has been the scourge of human society since time immemorial. It continues to cost countless human lives, and inflicts terrible misery to millions throughout the world. Alcohol is the root cause of several problems facing society. The statistics of soaring crime rates, increasing instances of mental illnesses & millions of broken homes throughout the world bear mute testimony to the destructive power of alcohol.

The 'good' in wine is popularly known as a certain taste & a feeling of well-being, professed increase of temporary energy, and a given glow on the face. Being transient, these benefits hardly stand against the array of evils that drinking breeds.

Let's take the human body first. Drinking causes mal-function of the stomach, reduces desire to eat, affects facial contours, inflates the waistline, hurts the livers and the kidneys and becomes a contributor to all sorts of diseases. Reason does not work under the influence of hard drinks and one cannot manage things until one becomes sober after sometime. The hangover turns out to be as bad. The morning after a party is hard for a drinker who gets a splitting headache & is disoriented after his late-night bout of drinking.

Wine, a tempting stimulant and a much romanticized poison works slowly, inspite of the spirited defense put up by its users. The fact is that drinking not only harms the elders but also effects their born or yet to come children as well. So. the habit of drinking is not only evil in itself but a mother of other evils too making men ready to commit the worst possible crimes against their fellow beings.