Ali Ibn Abi Talib - Volume 1 of 2

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day, he brought h~m out and gave him twenty lashes, then he sad to
him: "I only gave you these twenty lashes because of your lack of
shame before Allah (&) in breaking the fast in am ad an."'^^
3.2.3.b. If death occurs when carrying out
the b dd punishment for drinking alcohol
It was narrated that 'Ali (&) said: "There is no man on whom
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I carry out a hadd punishment and he dies that I feel bad about, except
in the case of alcohol. If he dies, I will pay compensation (blood
money), because the Prophet (@J did not prescribe it."253
The mlings of Islam came to protect the reason and intellect
with which Allah (g) honoured man, and Islam forbade alcohol,
which takes away man's reason, as Allah (&) says:
$0 you who believe! Intoxicants [all kinds of alcoholic drinks], and
gambling, and Al-Anssb [stone altars for sacrifices to idols, etc], and
al-Azlk [arrows for seeking luck or decision] are an abomination of
Satan's handiwork. So avoid [strictly all] that [abomination] in order
that you may be successful. Satan wants only to excite enmity and
hatred between you with intoxicants [alcoholic drinks] and gambling,
and hinder you from the remembrance of Allah and from as-Salih
[the prayer]. So, will you not then abstain?) (Qur'an 5: 90-91)
In this regard, the Messenger of Allah (g) said: "Every intoxicant is
kharn~,'~~ and all khamr is hark."255 Hence it is prescribed to carry
out the hadd punishment on the drunkard, and drugs and relaxants
which affect the soundness of the mind are forbidden.256
Protection of the mind and reason is one of the aims of Sharia.
Protecting them leads to protecting the other necessities of Sharia,
and failing to protect them leads to innumerable evils.257