except from getting drunk - are they still getting punished like in the old days the way their prophet did it to his followers, as we see in this story?
In his book, part 8, pp. 196, 197, the Bukhari says:
"The prophet’s custom was to beat the drunkard with palm branches and sandals. When a drunkard was brought to him, he ordered his companions to beat him with their hands, sandals and robes. One of Muhammad’s companions by the name of al-Sa’ib ibn Yazid says, ‘We used to bring the drunkard before the apostle of God and during the caliphate of Abu Bakr and in the first stage of the caliphate of ’Umar, and we would beat him with our hands, sandals and robes. During the last part of ’Umar’s caliphate, he ordered us to flog him eighty times"’ (refer to ibn Timiyya, volume 28, page 336; and the book of the Sunna and its Significance, by Dr. M. Yusuf, page 29).
What brutality to see Muhammad and his followers rise against the drunkard to beat him altogether at the same time.
2007-01-04
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