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Imam as‐Sadiq (a) said, “The drunkards are the same as the pagans are. Intoxicants are the chief
of every sin. The consumers of intoxicants are belying God’s Book. If they acceded to God’s Book,
they would abstain from the matters that are forbidden there.”[3]
Imam as‐Sadiq (a) said, “He who consumes intoxicants his entire life, is not different from the
pagans. Those who abstain from intoxicants for God’s fearing, God will admit them to the Paradise
and quench their thirst from the pure sealed drink.”[4] The terrible damages of intoxicants:
The addiction to intoxicants causes physical downfall and destruction. Modern medical writings
have mentioned the great damages of intoxicants.
Damages on birth:
The descendants inherit many defects from the intoxicants. The descendants of drunkard parents
carry the effects of weak structures and the affliction of serious disorders ‐the outcome of which
is idiocy, general paralysis, or barrenness. It may also lead to the newborns’ death. In addition, the
offspring of the drunkards may be afflicted by painful deformities such as inequality of the brain,
shortness, and edema, and retardation of mental powers such as frailty of memory, fatuity, and
the like. Many physicians, such as Bogonus[5], Shawn, Stoker, Dingo and others, confirm this
fact.[6]
Damages on blood and heart:
The analysts of intoxicants have proven that the effective element of the intoxicants is alcohol or
the spirit that easily leaks into the blood without need to disintegrate. The accompanying
materials may dissolve in the stomach into a material called aldehyde, and distribute to all of the
tissues and organs. A little of that material composes carbonic or acetic acids. As evidence, the
physicians say that if an amount of a drunkard’s blood is brought near fire, it will be burnt like
wine and spirit.
The intoxicants cause the heart to beat rapidly because of the irregular activity of the cardiac
muscles. Withering and disintegration are the results of the reduction of
[1] Refer to Muslim’s Sahih.
[2] Refer to Wessailushia.
[3] Ibid.
[4] Ibid
[5] Refer to Labor and rights of workers in Islam: 19 (second edition.)
[6] Refer to Principals of health and life: 287.
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