THE GRADUAL AND FINAL COMMANDMENTS ABOUT

INTOXICANTS

      During the Pagan Era, and after that when Islam had not enough social power, dirinking wine and other sorts of intoxicants was somethings common among all calsses of Arabs, and it indeed worked in the frame of general calamities. Historians have written that all Arabs were in love with wine, poetry, and war.

      Islam struggled hard against that painful and injurious custom, and gradually cleared and cleared the young community, of wine's evil consequences. At first; verses came down to reveal the bad and hateful effects of drinking liquors or alcoholic beverages, and its profit which is much less than its loss.

      In the second stage of the prohibition, the verse forbade the drunken to approach the prayer, unless they may know what they say in their supplications.

      And finally all sorts of wine, intoxicants, and drugs, were declared as unlawful for a Muslim to take.

      The Arabic, `ANSطB' were shapeless idols, just like pieces of stones, but still were objects of worship for Arab idolaters.