| Author(s) | Ahmed Yousuf Smadi |
| Affiliation | Assistant Prof., Faculty of Islamic Jurisprudence and Law, Al al-bayt University, al-Mafraq, Jordan |
| Title | The Punishment of Drinking Wine Liquor between the Islamic Code and Chastisement |
| Source | Journal of King Saud University. Educational Sciences & Islamic Studies. Volume 17, No 1. (2005/1425) |
| Abstract | Linguistically, liquon means any material that intoxicates, whether extracted from grape juice or another substrances. It is named " liquor " for it affects the minds. Jurists varied in limiting the meaning of "liquor", but after I scrutinized the evidence of each team of jurists, I realized that "liquor" includes any intoxicating material conforming the text versions where legislator had defined liquor. After reviewing and discussing the evidence of the jurists, detected that the punishment for drinking liquor is not an Islamic code (hadd) since there is no evidence for it. Hadd is a divine sentence on certain crimes related and allotted by Allah. Chastisement is a legal punishment which is not allotted by the legislator. |
