In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the
Merciful
The Religious Authority H.E. Sayyed M. H.
Fadlullah delivered the two Friday prayer sermons at
the Imamain Al-Hassanain
Mosque, 14th of November 2008, 16th of Zul Kaada 1429
H.. Several
prominent religious scholars, dignitaries and thousands
of believers
attended the Jumu’a prayer.
Wine Induces
Enmity and Hatred and Hinders the
Remembrance of Allah
The First Sermon
In the Name of God, the Compassionate,
the Merciful
The sin of wine is greater than its utility
Allah says in His Glorious Book.
They question thee about strong
drink and games of chance. Say: In both is great sin,
and (some)
utility for men; but the sin of them is greater than
their
usefulness.
This Holy Ayah asserts that man might find some
partial benefits in dirking wine, as those who find
pleasure in
drinking it, and they might consider gambling
beneficial, since it
is a source of gaining some money. But Allah, the most
Exalted,
states the fact that there is nothing in life that is
useful a
hundred percent or harmful a hundred percent.
Something might be useful at a rate of 20% and
harmful at a rate 80%.The Wiseman who respects himself
and his life
would not choose what is harmful at this rate to go
acquire a little
rate of benefit. Thus the sin that is mentioned in the
Ayat is the
harm that results from delaying the good.
If anybody consults experts about some goods he
wants to buy and he is told that you will gain 20% and
lose 80%,
would he buy these goods if he is a rational person?!
Here Allah is
saying that the harm of drinking wine and gambling is
much more than
their benefits. This Ayah restates a general juristic
rule: all that
whose harm is greater than its usefulness is
prohibited, whether
this harm is in this world or in the Hereafter.
Therefore, man
should not eat, drink or trade in anything except after
he studies
its usefulness.
Allah also says:
Satan's plan is (but) to excite
enmity and hatred between you, with intoxicants and
gambling, and
hinder your remembrance of Allah, and from prayer: will
ye not then
abstain?
This is because wine makes man lose his balance and
weakens his mind, which might drive him to improper
behaviour. And
he might clash with others and create hatred and enmity.
He might also forget Allah, and abandon the
performance of his rites. Would you than stop drinking
wine and
gambling, since these two acts that Satan wants you to
do, to make
you forget your responsibilities.
Allah also says:
O you who believe! Intoxicants
and games of chance and (sacrificing to) stones set up
and (dividing
by) arrows are only an uncleanness, the Shaitan's work;
shun it
therefore that you may be successful.
Drinking wine is the beginning of all evil:
We read in the Hadith of the Messenger (p.): All
evil was gathered in a house, and drinking wine was
made its key".
A story narrated by some people goes as follows: A
man was asked to choose between three things: Adultery,
killing and
drinking wine. He thought that adultery is one of the
big sins,
while killing is a much greater sin. So the man chose
to drink wine,
being the easiest. But when he drank wine, he killed a
man and
committed adultery, because when he got drunk he was no
longer aware
of what he
was doing and committed the other sins.
In another hadith that addressed all those who work
in making, selling or serving wine, the Messenger says:
May God
curse wine, and those who squeeze it, plant it, buy it,
sell it, and
carry it and the one it is carried to… and the one who
serves it. He
also says: "Drinking wine is like worshipping idols,
because one
gets addicted to drinking wine and it takes all his
time, it is as
if he takes wine as an idol he worships. Imam Al-Sadiq
(a.s.) says that Allah did not send a
prophet, whom He did not consider his message to be
complete except
after prohibiting wine.
Allah has sent no Messenger with a message that did
not include prohibiting wine. But Allah sends His
rulings gradually,
since if it was done all at once, it would have made
the people feel
that it is a heavy burden.
Some people might not drink wine, but they would sit
with their friends who do. To those people the
Messenger (p) says:
"He who believes in Allah and the HereEreHhhhhafter
should not sit
at a table where wine is served", since you would be
accepting what
they are doing and in the end, you might be attracted
to do the
same.
Wine and consciousness:
Imam Ali (a.s.) says: Allah has ordained not do
drink wine to secure the mind. The mind is the argument
(proof) that
justifies accountability. And Allah does not,
therefore, want it to
be weakened or disrupted. He wants to strengthen and
develop it, for
it distinguishes between the good and the bad, the
right and
falsehood, and good and evil. And if it weakens the
values would be
compromised. Imam Al-Baqir (a.s.) says that Allah has
prohibited
wine for its action and corruption.
Men of medicine list several negative effects on the
health as a result of drinking wine, which was
prohibited in certain
western societies when they first evolved.
Imam al-Kazim (a.s.) says: Allah did not prohibit
wine for its name. But for its effects. Thus whatever
has the same
effects as wine, is also wine.
This hadith leads us to talk about another danger,
drugs, which have become widely spread among our youth,
especially
in the universities, and which has become to be sold in
some
pharmacies as sedatives.
Drugs are more dangerous than wine, because not only
do they affect the mind, they also destroy the health
and weaken the
willpower and make those who do them in a state of
hallucination, a
state that if widely spread could destroy the entire
country.
It is said that Britain used to spread drugs between
the Chinese people when it occupied their land to
weaken their
resolve to resist occupation. And when some reformers
started to
fight this habit, it declared war on china. Thus, when
the Chinese stopped taking drugs they
became a free, independent and developing nation that
completes with
the other superpowers in the world. Hence, some people
spread drugs
to weaken the entire nation.
Parents should be watchful and keep an eye on their
children, especially that drugs are common in the
universities and
secondary schools. We also consider the government to
be responsible
and has to fight the spreading of drugs including its
planting by
encouraging attentive crops. The entire world has felt
the
dangerousness of drugs and has started fighting them by
all means.
Moreover, we cannot put an end to this habit unless all
of us
cooperate together in confronting it and in warning our
children
from its harmful results that could end their future
and destroy
their lives.
The Messenger has also told us: There will come a
time, my Umma (nation) will eat something called Banj
(a plant whose
seeds intoxicats) I am innocent of those people and
they are
innocent of me – even if they pray and fast. In another
saying he says that he who finds the sin
of eating Banj a small sin would disbelieve, since its
prohibition
is one of the necessities of religion, and who denies
one of the
religious necessities becomes an unbeliever.
Therefore, we have to fight all those who trade in
wine or drugs. Anyone who sells wine, his money is
unlawful. It is
even haram (unlawful) to buy from shops that sell wine,
as a form of
forbidding evil. The Holy verses in the Quran and the
Hadith of the
Messenger (p.) and the Ahl-Beit Imams have emphasized
that the
sellers and buyers of wine are cursed. That is why we
should fight
them by means of boycotting. I have issued a Fatwa
prohibiting
buying anything even if it is halal from the shops that
sell wine.
It is also prohibited to buy from the pharmacies that
sell drugs to
our youth, because we have to protect our society from
social and
health dangers.
The Second Sermon
In the Name of God, the Compassionate,
the Merciful
The Interfaith Conference: The meeting of the
Arab leaders with the Zionist war criminals
The Arab and Israeli leaders have eaten the same
food in the Interfaith Conference that was held in New
York. It is
the food that is mixed with the Palestinian blood and
agonies. It is
the "big accomplishment" for the UN whose Secretary
General boosts
that he was able to join between the Arabs and the
Zionists under
the same ceiling. But he forgets that Israel has
crushed all the UN
resolutions with the boots of occupation and scattered
the
Palestinians all over the world and is invading what is
left of
their country, either by its settlement activities or
by its tanks,
warplanes and continuous massacres.
The Arab leaders who are not religiously committed
in the first place, sit down with the Zionists at the
same table to
discuses dialogue of religions which they are not
specialized in, at
a time the enemy's entity is engaged in the biggest
campaign to
Judaize Jerusalem; demolishing the houses of the
Palestinians in the
city, having already destroyed five thousand
Jerusalemite houses
since 1967… In addition to the siege imposed on Gaza,
which has been
transformed into a mobile tragedy that undermines the
lives of the
civilians by cutting the supplies of fuel, food and
medicine, and
continuing its aggressions of killing, arresting and
invading.
In this respect, we notice that the European Union
expresses its deep concern for demolishing the houses
of the
Palestinians, without taking any pacifically step to
conformation…
And although there are some ships that carry foreign
activists that seek, albeit symbolically, to lift the
blockade, the
Arabs who share the same table with Perez do not make
any move to
lift the oppression, injustice and the suffering of the
Palestinian
people, including those of occupation and the siege.
They listen
carefully to the American Secretary of State talking
hypocritically
about the coming peace, following the talking of the
Zionist
officials of the possibility of discussing the Arab
Initiative anew
and after the talk of the International Quartet
Committee of the
necessity of freezing settlement activities and not
dismantling the
existing ones, since they all are concerned not to
bother Israel,
even if it was at the expense of all Arabs and Muslims.
On their part, the Palestinians in the National
Authority and outside it, have started campaigns of
betrayal against
one another; the sufferings and pains of their people
notwithstanding.
This calls on as to raise the question not only on
the future of their internal dialogue but also about
the fate of
their cause and the cause of their destiny.
America: The surprise of the new Administration
On the American scene, many have said that America
has surprised the world by surpassing racial
discrimination when the
whites elected a black president, but it seems that the
president-elect quickly surprised the Arabs by choosing
an Israeli
who was in the enemy's army and fought against the
Lebanese to be
his transitional chief of staff. We should pause and
think if this
president is free and qualified enough to change as he
says.
We warn the coming American Administration from
adopting an Israel agenda, or to approach the issues of
the region
from an Israeli perspective whose representatives are
all over the
White House. Resorting to war and violence that was the
adopted
policy of Bush Administration has proved to be a
failure. The only
option the new administration is left with is to listen
to the
decisions of peoples, especially those of the Arab and
Muslim world
whom American says that they hate them. But they do not
ask
themselves why, although the successive American
Administrations had
adopted a sole course of pressure and oppression toward
these
peoples and their causes.
We advise the coming administration not to pursue
the policy of violence of the neoconservatives and to
start a
political with the states Bush has included in the axis
of evil.
They should also stop considering as an axiom that the
Resistance
forces are terrorists, instead they should try to
deduce a serious
and realistic definition of terrorism and to focus on
its internal
problems before it gets burnt by the fire of nations
and freedom
seekers in the entire world.
Iraq: Bloody violence and political struggles
In Iraq, we meet again with the bloody violence, as
a result of the bombings that haunt the civilians in
the popular
markets, such as in Al-Azmaiah neighbourhood, at a time
the Iraqi
officials declare that they have not succumbed to the
conditions of
the occupation's security treaty. This makes us wonder
whether these
bombings represent a part of the pressures on the
government and the
Iraqi national unity in the face of occupation, or
whether the
Takifiris are indirectly serving the occupation in the
course of
pursuing their own agenda.
We call on the Iraqis to be more careful in dealing
with the security agreement, for we are afraid from the
American
game that tries to suggest to the Iraqis and the world
that the
American presence is necessary for the Iraqis due to
the unstable
security conditions.
We also warn from the renewed talk about federalism,
especially as some provinces are acting in a way that
departs from
the Iraqi unity and that oversteps the central power
and inclines to
secede from the motherland, which might add additional
problems to
the ones the occupation is already responsible of.
Lebanon: Dialogue on the dialogue itself
As for Lebanon, the dialogue has entered in a phase
of exchanging accusations, as soon as those who
participated in it
left the room, as if what we should do is to have a
dialogue about
the dialogue itself, and that reconciliations should
remain
superficial, where only the setting and the interior
design change,
and the strategies and positions remain the same.
Moreover, the
political contradictions are recalled at every
historical landmark,
since the people are thinking about the coming
elections.
We call on all Lebanese parties to study thoroughly
the state of the region and the world, so that the
Lebanese – Arab
coordination would be based on the concern of the
stability of the
security internally and the higher interests of the
homeland and the
nation in view of the new regional and international
developments.
We should seize to try to score points as such
behaviour would
compromise the fate of the country while the internal
players are
under the illusion that they are playing their
traditional game of
petty politics.
Lebanon,
Religious Authority Ayatollah Sayid Hussein Fadhullah
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