JRPGfan said:
Did you not read the link you yourself qouted at me?
Chapter 5, Verse 90 “O you who have believed, indeed, intoxicants, gambling, stone alters, and divining arrows are but defilement from the work of Satan, so avoid it that you may be successful.” "intoxicants are wine actually." - qoute Dino Mustafić (muslim, with friends that are scholars in it)
That user, speaks the language and says, people saying "intoxicans" are mis-translateing it. The actual word in the koran isnt "intoxicans" but "wine".
Thats what I mean. People are "reading" things into it, that arnt the words used in the koran. But if you look though the koran you can find mentions of various alcohol, by name, saying they are sinfull. However you wont find "mead" in there.
Where do I get this? My father told me, he heard it from a muslim. Found it funny, like a loop hole they have in there about it, and remembered it because of that. He told me, and I remembered it for the same reason.
Supposedly mead, a alchole made from honey, is supposed to be okay to drink by muslims. |
Problem with translations, they must be put within context vs literal much of the time. Most translations would put this as intoxicants vs the literal for wine. Not because the intention is to separate one alcoholic drink from another, but because the point is to not intoxicate yourself. This is really what you are saying in regards to the differentiation with wine and mead - one is strong the other is light. Which is also why the word "intoxicants" is more accurate for the context than the literal word wine. Its not like the Arab Muslims of the time were able to drink vodka and tequila, but anyone reading the entire context of the Qur'an in regards to alcohol would agree they are also not to be consumed similar to wine, etc.
