As a citizen of the world who had been living in the Middle-East more specifically in Lebanon in a region where the opinion on alcohol is vague in comparison to other Arab countries like Saudi Arabia or Qatar where they are very strict in letting people buy or drink alcohol publically, I always asked myself what is the real meaning of alcohol and what is the best solution to deal with it. For doing so, I studied first what some religions like Christianity and Islam says about alcohol and what is their perspective that they try to impose on their people to get to best out of the alcohol, in other word how to be stronger that this liquid that obviously affect the mind and the body and so changes our behaviors. After analyzing what Christianity and Islam says about alcohol in addition to what is the spiritual effect of alcohol, I will came up with my opinion on this subject and how I feel people should deal with it having been inspired by my personal experience of alcohol and how I deal with it. Strictly speaking, in different cultures and people, alcohol affects differently, I will discuss the good and bad aspects of alcohol’s powerful possession over society and how to reverse it.
I will start by talking to you about how Islam approach the subject. Following my experience in Beirut, where there is no strict rules about alcohol or buying alcohol or something like that, people are free to decide whether they want to drink or not. I felt like the whole Muslim communities who are surrounded by Christians, (it is important to specify this) were not convinced about whether or not they should follow their holy book that says that alcohol should be completely prohibited and no one should drink it. However, these people follow the rules from time to time, the idea had to be in the back of their mind most of the time because of the rules that are written in the book and because of course of the influence that other Muslim leaders have on them and on keeping this extreme view of alcohol. What made me think about this, is when I compared Lebanese Muslims with Muslims outside the country. When I traveled to country like Saudi Arabia or Dubai for example, the rules that are put on the people are completely different. It is prohibited to buy alcohol without a permission and it is surely prohibited to drink alcohol in public spaces and of course there is no bars, opening a bar is completely prohibited in Saudi Arabia, however it is permitted in Dubai, so we can see here three different region that deal in degradation with the alcohol subject. One that take the extreme of things, another one where this subject doesn’t matter at all for them, and a third one who is in the middle, not sure what to do not sure how to deal with it. This is due to the Islam’s holistic approach to health and well-being means that everything that is harmful or mostly harmful, is forbidden. In other words, Islam takes an uncompromising stand towards alcohol and forbids its consumption in either small or large quantities. It says that is affects the mind and the body and that they are abominations from Satan and orders us to avoid them. So they conclude that there is a relation between alcohol and Satan saying that Satan uses to distract humankind from the work ship of God. However, here I can say that if the people that believe in Islam where strong enough mentally and wouldn’t be affected by either good or bad in a so intense way, alcohol shouldn’t be a problem to them, but since they are so sensitive to the energies that surround us, alcohol was completely prohibited from their lives. From this analysis, I can conclude that Muslims in general are very sensible to the energies that are surrounding us, I am concluding this after studying the spiritual effect of alcohol on the body. Which says that alcohol affects the spiritual energy if we look at it from an Indian though, they use the term Chakras to describe each of the centers of spiritual power in the human body, usually considered to be seven in number. So the theory is that these chakras regulate the flow of subtle energy for our various functions. While drinking alcohol, three from on energies are predominant Sattva: the spiritual purity and knowledge, Raja: action and passion, Tama: ignorance and inertia, and with these energies we send particles of distressing energy emanating into the environment, activating a ring of illusion. So the Indian theory says that alcohol gives energy to the body, Mind and Intellect and explain to us what this energy might be. Islam knows these energies and find them as energies giving by Satan by saying that these energies are a Demonic possession. Which explains why it is prohibited and which leads to the conclusion that people who believe in Islam tends to be more sensitive to these energies whether these energies are bad or good.
However, while studying what Christianity says on alcohol, I have to mention first of all the theory of transforming the wine into water, which is another way of saying that however your mind perceive the liquid, it will affect your body, your thoughts towards this substance whether or not you feel stronger that this substance or not, your instinct thought about it your first image that your mind construct about alcohol determines the consequences of alcohol on your body and your mind, with for not staying in the norms of reality.
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