Bismillah
O you who have believed, indeed, intoxicants, gambling, [sacrificing on] stone alters [to other than Allah ], and divining arrows are but defilement from the work of Satan, so avoid it that you may be successful.
Al-Ma’idah 5:90
I read a very interesting post on alcohol in iLuvislam.com… Actually I wanted to talk about it to last week, but somehow I forgot about it… -.-’
I’m writing this for my Muslim friends who are drinking… I wish that they are reading this, but I highly doubt it…
Every Friday I’ll have a class on ‘Complex Nutrition in Sportsmen’… The whole course deals about how to ensure that athletes get enough nutrients depending on the type of sports… For example, we’re told about what’s good for endurance sportsman/woman and what’s good for power sports… We are also taught about diet, doping and drinking regimes… Which is very interesting, because I never thought that food and also drinks play a very very important (I knew they are important, but not as important as stressed in the class) role in sports… They even design the diet programs to be used from months before and up to 30 minutes before the competition!
And when talking about drinks, being in Czech Republic, of course they will mention about alcohol somewhere along the course… It’s to be expected, since Czech Republic is one of the countries with the highest alcohol consumption per-capita in the world (1st in terms of beer)… And as expected, the professor mentioned about the merits and demerits of alcohol… The presentation also mentioned that beer is a good thirst quencher… I couldn’t help but chuckle during the class…
Half full or half empty? Regardless, it’s the best thirst quencher…
If you want to know more about how can alcohol be bad to your health, please read the article I mentioned above… I won’t mention them here, as that would be unjust to the writer… Honestly, the article mentioned about Blood Brain Barrier, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, which I think is impressive…
However the harm that drinkers are causing to their brains and livers are only part of the problem… Ever heard about secondary smokers? For alcohol, there are also secondary drinkers… Who are they? They are the people who died when hit by a drunk driver… They are the people who got to clean up the mess (puke, urine or whatever) in the bus next morning… They are the victims of household violence by people under the influence… They are the newborns born with cravings for alcohol…
With that, let’s all stay sober…
For those who love Google Earth, and want to see the effects of alcohol on the world, download this file (got from New Scientist.com)
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