In our age, wine is of many kinds having different names.  Wine has been divided into particular categories in consideration of proportion of alcohol contained in them viz., brandy, whisky, rum, marteel etc.  The proportion of alcohol is these wines range between 40 to 60 per cent.

In Gin, Holandi, and Janifa  alcohol ranges between 33 to 40 per cent, whereas in  Boorat, Shiray  and  Madir it ranges between 15 to 20 per cent and light liquors like  Hook, Shambania  and Barjandi  contain 10 to 15 per cent alcohol.  Similarly light beers like  Eal, Boortar , Istoot  and Meunich  contain 2 to 9 per cent alcohol.

Some people drink light liquors because they provoke light intoxication and they are called by names other than wine and do not make a note that “the small quantity of a thing, the great quantity of which creates intoxication, is also unlawful.”

1.The prevailing situation is in conformity with the saying of the Holy Prophet (peace and blessing of Allah be upon him): “Variety a section of my  ummah will declare wine lawful under the garb of various names by which they will call it.” 2. Therefore, Allah’s bondsmen should be at guard against wine.  The Holy Qur’an says:

   “And let those who conspire to evade His order: beware, lest grief or painful punishment befall them.”  (24:63)

    We seek refuge in Allah against evil promptings, the mischiefs of our mind and evil of our works.

 Wine and beer played an important part in primitive life, particularly on the occasions of marriage, birth, death,   rites of maturity, negotiations and decisions.

During Roman and Byzantine times wine was the chief table beverage of the cities, while beer made from grain was popular in rural areas.

 As monasteries were constructed and grew in size and needed a means of support, wine- making became an essential feature of their economy.

 As time passed, the “ritualistic” drinking of alcoholic beverages became secondary to social drinking.  With this came a new problem: weighing the economic advantages of the production of distilled spirits against the social evils of excessive drinking.

 This problem arose because alcoholic beverages became valuable export products for the mercantile countries of Western Europe which were anxious to export more than what they imported and thus accumulate gold and silver.

            In 1689 the English Government prohibited the import of distilled liquors and encouraged domestic growth by licensing distilleries and later retail liquor stores at a very small fee.  Drinking became easy and cheap; drunkenness, a national disgrace.

            Excessive indulgence led to temperance movements, the most important of which was led by John Wesley, founder of the Methodist religion.

            The situation was similar in America.  The early colonizers brought their drinks with them.  They believed that these spirits had health-giving qualities.  Thus alcoholic beverages were in great demand in the eathearlier days of the New World, since it was felt a pint of ale could a spur a man on to his tasks of felling forests and building villages.  It was also believed that alcohol helped cure fevers, chills and snake bites.

            Rum played an important part in the American history.  The New England traders took rum to West Africa and exchanged it for slaves.  The slaves were taken to the West Indies and traded for sugar and molasses.  These in turn were taken  back to New England to be used in making more rum.  Rum was not only enjoyed by the New Englander at that time, but it was a part of the web involving the shipping industry, slavery and the whole economy of the world.

            The intoxicating liquor, which is the most vicious curse to humanity, is a “creature” of the human beings themselves.  It has ruined innumerable lives, shattered multitudes of homes, and caused more misery to mankind than all other vices put together.  If man-made laws of the civilized countries have any morality in them, they would have banned the brewing, purveying and consumption of intoxicants.  But the traffic in alcoholic liquor brings them huge revenues which they dislike loosing.  There was a time when the United States of America had come to realise the curse and had imposed complete prohibition, but the “boot- leggers” and contrabands defeated the legislative ban which had to be repealed.