Alcohol - A deadly poison
Broken homes, wrecked marriages, ruined careers, destroyed relationships, crushed hopes, domestic violence, crimes, rapes, accidents, all because of this drink. This drink, this poison, has caused nothing but death and destruction.
This deadly poison affects every part of the body negatively, including the brain. It kills brain cells, distorts view and destroys judgement. Many people have been killed in road accidents due to drunk driving. Many are in jail for crimes commited after drinking. Many beat their wives under its influence. Many have ruined their careers after getting addicted. Many beat their children after drinking. Women have been forced to leave husbands who coudn’t stop drinking. Look at the people in rehabilitation because they can’t stop drinking. Many have died due to liver failure after continuous drinking. Mothers have lost sons. Wives have lost husbands. Brother has lost brother. All to this deadly poison.
When will people learn, when will people understand, when will they stop drinking? When will bars and pubs close down? It is funny how hard drugs are illegal but the deadliest of hard drugs is not. It is hilarious how the biggest source of sorrow, grief, misery and ruin is not illegal.
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November 4th, 2008 23:56 GMT
Hey, Yoo Shoo, do you know alcohol is present in small quantities in most allopathic medicines (like cough mixtures)? And what will you say when they start using alcohol as a fuel to run cars in this Islamic Republic? Will you protest that putting alcohol in cars is “haram”? By the way, someone recently gave a fatwa that alcohol in medicines is allowed. You will find it in my blog.
November 5th, 2008 16:16 GMT
Old Man,
I don’t even know where to begin to address your retarded comment. No one drinks cough medicines to consume the tiny quantity of alcohol in the bottle and no one will take alcohol out of cars to drink it LOL! People don’t die after liver failure because they drank one cough syrup after another. LOL! People have not destroyed their lives due to excessive alcohol found in cough syrups. DID YOU EVEN READ THIS POST? or did you just start ranting after reading the title according according to your habit?
November 6th, 2008 10:26 GMT
Buddah Yusha, I’ve advised you so many times to go to a psychiatrist to find out why you’re not normal. I once worked in a factory where industrial alcohol was manufactured, and there were people who would take a glass of the liquid and drink it (during the night shifts), and immediately they would go into a deep sleep. When Pakistanis start using alcohol (ethanol or gasohol) in cars, you can bet some retarded people (like you) will try the stuff. Why don’t you start arranging demonstrations right now to ban the manufacture and import of all kinds of alcohol in this Islamic Republic?
November 6th, 2008 11:52 GMT
Old Man,
Once again I must address how retarded you comment is.
You call a person a third of your age buddha and then mention that I should go to a psychiatrist. Anyone can look at this and tell right away who needs to go to a psyciatrist. Only a complete retard calls a person a third of his age buddha.
Secondly, do you know that a liar thinks everyone is a liar and a thief thinks that everyone is a thief, similarly a person in need of treatment himself thinks that everyone needs treatment.
November 7th, 2008 10:06 GMT
People say when alcohol was available openly in Pakistan there were less social evils e.g. heroine, opium, hashish etc It is a recorded fact.
The other day I was listening to Abdul Greene a revered muslim scholar from UK saying that Pakistan is not an islamic country since theres alot of bida’ i.e. people going to dargaz and to palmists/fortune tellers/magicians and its shirk. He placed drinking alcohol being a lesser sin than practsing all of the above!
November 11th, 2008 02:30 GMT
I must agree with Kahsif, and here is why:
A great deal of ancient world and Hindu/tribal legacy still exists in Pakistan. One would think that replacing Hinduism with an Abrahamic religion would clear out the ancient nonsense - yet is has not.
Also, though alcohol is a poison and a vice, many people can handle it. The solution is not to ban it. Nothing banned ever disappears.
My father was a Naval officer stationed in Japan, just after WW2. He came back to the USA via the Suez canal. At a port in Saudi Arabia he and some of the officers were invited to a gentleman’s club for conversation and dinner. My father and the other officers did like to drink a little. They were happy to be guests of the Saudi’s, but were expecting the event to be tedious because of the lack of alcohol. Once inside the gentleman’s club their hosts supplied them with delicious fruit juices. Then, more than one Saudi pulled up his robe to remove a flask of booze strapped to their calf. In fact, my father claimed that the flask-calf-strap seemed to be a manufactured product - not something the individual had rigged up. The Saudis were very generous to my father the other officers with both fruit juice and booze.
Why Islam does not cure ancient-mindedness or Hindu-tribalism: Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism and atheism are considered to be, more or less, transparent thought structures, while Islam is classified as an Obscuratism - non-transparent thought structures.
J-C-B-A all demand that objective, empirical truth be sought and spoken. These thinking structures permit the advance of scientific knowledge and admit a scientific, empirical truth when the truth is proved with conventionall logic. That’s why superstitions have vanished so quickly in the J-C-B-A world with the rise of scientific knowledge and the spread of the methods of rational and logical thinking.
The J-C-B-A world does not think a God controls the movement of every little thing, and simply gives humans the illusion of cause and effect, as does the Islamic world. We in the West think there is an explanation for every event, and an explantion for the explanation, and so on, leading all they way back into time.
This world view brings more understanding and compassion for people who have vices - sins against Allah - because we know that there is more to the story of how they developed a vice than simplistic Islamic explanations, like “they did not pray 5 times a day and read the Quran over and over and over again”.
In the West, we try to figure out the cause and effect of vices and then fix the problem like an engineer fixes a problem. And it is my opinion that an engineered solution can involve a greater embrace of spirituality for the person with a vice.
But from the J-C-B-A world view we have learned that most people who have a vice also had cruel parents, or in the case of street children, perhaps no parents. The vice fills in a hole left in the persons heart, and it may also fill in a hole left in the mind due to poor education. But the poor education can sometimes be blamed on bad parents, or no parents. So most of the blame is on the parents.
But of course the parents may have had bad or somewhat bad parents, and so some blame goes to the grandparents.
The string of blame could go back through a persons family tree for hundreds or years, and maybe for thousands.
Our research has also shown that child sexual abuse - and this could be by a parent, relative, clergyman, or stanger - often makes a person weak towards vices. This mechanism is not yet understood on the neuroscientific level.
From conversations with Pakis I have learned that child sexual abuse is taking place in Pakistan, and of course those who abuse the child secretly will be portraying themselves as good Muslims publicly. Islam does not make a person into a saint.
So, I think the biggest problem is not alcohol, but ignorance and obscurantisms. I recommend that children everywhere get a better education in math and science and logic and reasoning, and that they understand how all these disciplines inter-relate with each other. Also, the chidlren must be free to ask “why”, and the answer can’t be “because it is Allah’s will”. If an adult does not know the answer to a child’s question, then simply say “I don’t know”. Or you could say that alcohol is bad because….and then give the list of the woes of the alcoholic, and one could also discuss the advantages of a spiritual world view with the child.
Cheers
November 16th, 2008 11:03 GMT
@ Kashif
People say when alcohol was available openly in Pakistan there were less social evils e.g. heroine, opium, hashish etc It is a recorded fact.
The other day I was listening to Abdul Greene a revered muslim scholar from UK saying that Pakistan is not an islamic country since theres alot of bida’ i.e. people going to dargaz and to palmists/fortune tellers/magicians and its shirk. He placed drinking alcohol being a lesser sin than practsing all of the above!
@ Rob
One would think that replacing Hinduism with an Abrahamic religion would clear out the ancient nonsense - yet is has not.
Also, though alcohol is a poison and a vice, many people can handle it.
That’s why superstitions have vanished so quickly in the J-C-B-A world with the rise of scientific knowledge and the spread of the methods of rational and logical thinking.
But from the J-C-B-A world view we have learned that most people who have a vice also had cruel parents
November 16th, 2008 19:50 GMT
I remember a decision by the Federal Shariat Court, in which two judges were Sunnis and one (Justice Agha Ali Haider) was a Shia. Both the Sunni judges declared that alcohol in all its forms is “haram” while the Shia judge ruled that alcohol is “haram” only if by taking one more drop the drinker will get intoxicated.