why did Allah forbid alcohol?

Answer 1

why there is a total ban on alcoholic drinks in Islam? The answer lies in hadis. You see, all ahadith were compiled long after Muhammad’s death—at least 200 years later.
Most of Muhammad’s companions were habitual drinkers. Don’t you believe this? Here is a hadis from Sahih Bukhari that tells us Hamzah, the ‘Lion of Islam’ was a real drunkard and womanizer of the first order. In fact, while he (Hamzah) was drunk Muhammad was so scared of him that he (Muhammad) dared not approach him. The arrant, violent and unruly behavior of Hamzah, while drunken was one of the prime reasons to motivate Muhammad to proclaim the avoidance of wine. Let us read this hadis from Sahih Bukhari
Volume 4, Book 53, Number 324:
Hamzah, in drunken state killed the she-camel of Ali…4.53.324

Even Muhammad’s lifelong companion/servant, Anas b. Malik was a butler or a bar tender—serving wine to his customers. His main business was probably running a pub.

Read this hadis from Sahih Muslim.

Anas b. Malik was serving wine to a group of ansars when the announcement on the ban on alcoholic drink was pronounced…Sahih Muslim: 23.4884, 4886

Anas b. Malik reported: I was standing amongst the uncles of my tribe serving them Fadikh while I was the youngest of them, when a person came and said: Verily the use of liqour has been prohibited. They said: Anas, spill it away. So I spilt it. He (one of the narrators. Sulaiman Taimi) said that he asked Anas what that was (the Fadikh). He said: It had been prepared from unripe and ripe dates. Abu Bakr b. Anas said: It was their liquor in those days. Sulaiman said: A person narrated it to me from Anas b. Malik that he had said so.

How about Muhammad? Did he ever drink wine? Unbelievable though it may seem, Muhammad did actually consume wine! Here is the proof.
While elaborating on the wine drinking habits of some of the Caliphs of Islam, Phillip K. Hitti, the eminent historian of the Arabs writes, “Khamr, made of dates was the favourite. Ibn Khaldun argues that such personages as al-Rashid and al-Ma’mun used only nabidh, prepared by soaking grapes, raisins or dates in water and allowing the juice to ferment slightly. Such drink was judged legal under certain conditions by at least one school of Moslem jurisprudence, the Hanafite. Muhammad himself drank it, especially before it was three days old.”

Yazid I (680-683): he was Muawiyah’s son. He drank daily and won the title Yazid al-Khumur, the Yazid of wines.
Abd al-Malik (685-705): he drank once a month; but drank so heavily that he had to use ant-vomiting medicine to pacify his drinking bout.
Al-Walid I (705-715): he drank every other day.
Hisham ((724-743): He drank every Friday after the divine service.
Al-Walid II (743-744): Yazid II’s son. He would swim habitually in a pool of wine of which he would gulp enough to lower the surface appreciably. He also shot the Qur’an to pieces with his bow and arrow

Total ban on the consumption of wine was truly enforced by the Abbasids, whose founder Abu al-Abbas, having the sobriquet al-Saffat (the blood shedder) was an absolutely cruel, deranged, despotic warlord who was bent to proclaim his brand of extreme chastisement (read Islam) through mindless torture and barbarism. It was during the Abbasid period that the first comprehensive compilation of hadis (Bukhari) was completed. This was around 830-840—almost 200 years after Muhammad’s death.

The question is: who knew Muhammad’s Islam better—the Ummayad’s, who were in charge of Islam soon after his death, or the Abbasid’s whose brand of Islam was instituted after a long elapse of almost 200 years

Answer 2

I would just like to answer la_muzhubs post on this page.

He is really way of the mark when he says that the Allah did not forbid alcohol in the Quraan.

See the following verses from the Quraan which speak directly of alcohol and intoxicants.

Chapter 5 Al Ma'idah
verse 90 :
'O ye who belive ! Strong drink and games of chance and idols and divinging arrows are only an infamy of Satans handiwork.Leave it aside in that you may succeed.'

Verse 91
Satan seeketh only to cast among you enmity and hatred by means of strong drink and games of chance and to turn you from the rememberence of Allah and from (His) worship. Will ye then have done?'

Chapter 2
Verse 219
'They question thee about Wine and Gambling. Say: In both is great SIN and (some) utility for men, but the sin of them is greater than their usefullness.And they ask thee what they ought to spend. Say : That which is superfluous. Thus Allah maketh plain to you (His) revelations, that haply ye may reflect.'

Answer 3

Allah did not forbid alcohol. That is some stupid sh1t made up by a psychotic retard by the name of Muhammad that erroneously claimed to be a prophet of God. He got drunk and didn't like the taste of his vomit so he banned drinking. What a jerk-off! Anyone that believes his teaching is doomed to an eternity in Hell.

Answer 4

To get to the other side?....Just kidding....It's because, after seeing his more fervent believers, he decided that it's best if he could keep all the alcohol for himself.

Upon reading this, I hope some Islamofascist issues a fatwah calling for my death (I need all the compliments I can get).

Answer 5

because of the detrimental effects on society

“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”

[al-Baqarah 2:219]

Answer 6

You would not be aware of wut ur doing and it causes problems in the body. Why would u drink alcohol. im addicted to pepsi, mountain dews.....etc.

Anyways. It tastes so horrible, so why should u drink it anyways???Im a muslim, and didnt know tht there was alcohol in tht tiramisu cake, ate a tiny bite then threw it in the garbage. ugh!!!!! there's beer without alcohol u know

Answer 7

because he was as an alcoholic and that was the only way he could stop?

Answer 8

Contemporary gods are real party poopers. Their followers are drags too.

Answer 9

so that we(muslims) stay in our senses and don't end up calling a prophet of Allah, son of Allah, i.e Jesus.

Answer 10

it was mohamed not allah a couple of his buddies got drunk and argued so he said no more grog

this why arabs are so angrey