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96. Cursing picture-makers<br />

B 7.845<br />

97. Being asked to put life into a picture<br />

B 7.846<br />

98. Riding behind the rider on a camel<br />

B 7.847<br />

99. Three riders on one camel<br />

B 7.848<br />

100. The owner of the camel behind the rider<br />

B 7.849<br />

101. Mounting a man behind another man on an animal<br />

B 7.850<br />

102. Mounting a woman behind a man<br />

B 7.851<br />

103. Putting one leg on the other while lying down<br />

B 7. 852<br />

DRINKS:<br />

2:219 - They ask thee concerning wine and gambling. Say: "In them is great sin and some profit for<br />

men; but the sin is greater than the profit." They ask thee how much they are to spend; say:<br />

"What is beyond your needs." Thus doth Allah make clear to you His Signs: in order that ye<br />

may consider. 240241242<br />

240 Wine: Khamr: literally understood to mean the fermented juice of the grape; applied by analogy to all fermented liquor,<br />

and by further analogy to any intoxicating liquor or drug. There may possible be some benefit in it, but the harm is<br />

greater than the benefit, especially if we look at it from a social as well as an individual point of view. (2.219)<br />

5:90 - O ye who believe! intoxicants and gambling (dedication of) stones and (divination by) arrows<br />

are an abomination of Satan's handiwork: eschew such (abomination) that ye may prosper.<br />

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9:19 - Do ye make the giving of drink to pilgrims or the maintenance of the Sacred Mosque equal to<br />

(the pious service of) those who believe in Allah and the Last Day and strive with might and<br />

main in the cause of Allah? They are not comparable in the sight of Allah: and Allah guides<br />

not those who do wrong. 1269<br />

1269 Giving drinks of cold water to thirsty pilgrims, and doing material services to a mosque are meritorious acts, but they<br />

are only external. If they do not touch the soul, their value is slight. Far greater, in the sight of Allah, are Faith,<br />

Endeavour, and self- surrender to Allah. Men who practise these will obtain honour in the sight of Allah. Allah's light<br />

and guidance comes to them, and not to those self-sufficient beings who think that a little show of what the world<br />

considers piety is enough. (9.19)<br />

18:29 - if they implore relief they will be granted water like melted brass that will scald their faces.<br />

How dreadful the drink! How uncomfortable a couch to recline on! 2371<br />

2371 Our choice in our limited Free-will involves a corresponding personal responsibility. We are offered the Truth: again<br />

and again is it pressed on our attention. If we reject it, we must take all the terrible consequences which are prefigured<br />

in the Fire of Hell. Its flames and roof will completely enclose us like a tent. Ordinarily there is water to quench the<br />

heat of thirst: here the only drink will be like molten brass, thick, heavy, burning, sizzling. Before it reaches the mouth<br />

of the unfortunates, drops of it will scald their faces as it is poured out. (18.29)<br />

37:45 - Round will be passed to them a Cup from a clear-flowing fountain<br />

37:46 - Crystal-white of a taste delicious to those who drink (thereof)<br />

37:47 - Free from headiness; nor will they suffer intoxication therefrom. 4063<br />

4063 The passing round of the social cup, as in the case of other pleasures, is without any of the drawbacks and evil<br />

accompaniments of the pleasures of this world, which are taken as types. In drink there is no intoxication: in fruit there<br />

is no satiety. Cf. Dante: "the bread of Angels upon which One liveth here and grows not sated by it." (Paradiso, Canto<br />

II., Longfellow's translation.) (37.47)<br />

55:44 - In its midst and in the midst of boiling hot water will they wander round! 5203<br />

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