I keep wondering, why have not they declared Electricity 'Hraam' in
Islam and are not telling to go back to SunnaT of lighting-up
Kerosene Lamps like the Holy Prophet did?
--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, "Shamim Chowdhury" <veirsmill@...>
wrote:
>
>
> This is just ridiculous logic, human consumption of alcohol is
> prohibited in Islam not because it is alcohol but its terrible
effect on
> human lives. These so-called Mullahs always talk on something that
they
> have no knowledge off and buy awful image for Islam as backward
looking
> religion while Islam ought to be just the opposite.
>
>
>
> K. Raisuddin is absolutely, it would be appropriate if the clergy
> sighted this as a destruction and disruption of human food, which
will
> cause human misery.
>
>
>
> Sincerely
>
> Shamim Chowdhury
>
> Maryland, USA
>
> --- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, "K. Raisuddin" <Kraisuddin@> wrote:
> >
> >
> > It would have been more appropriate if the citing was about the
> destruction of human food to produce biofuels in order to feed the
> vehicles. Where as the world is facing the acute shortage of human
foods
> in many parts of the world, the obligation of the rich countries
would
> have been to preserve more and more human foods, and even if they
sell
> instead of donating, millions of human lives would have been saved.
> Cellulose biofuel production is alright because in that process
human
> foods are not used; but producing biofuel using human food is
extremely
> unethical.
> >
> > From: rkhundkar@
> > Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:31:55 -0500
> > Subject: [ALOCHONA] Saudi Arabian scholar Warns: Alcohol in Bio-
fuels
> is sinful
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> > Saudi Muslim cleric warns that biofuels could be sinful
> > By Eoin O'Carroll | 02.20.09
> >
> http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2009/02/20/saudi-muslim-
cleric\
> -warns-that-biofuels-could-be-sinful/
> >
> > A prominent Muslim scholar in Saudi Arabia has warned that those
using
> alcohol-based biofuels in their cars could be committing a sin.
> >
> > The warning was issued by Sheikh Mohamed Al-Najimi, a member of
the
> Islamic Fiqh Academy, an institute that studies Islamic
jurisprudence
> for the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, an international
group
> with a permanent delegation to the United Nations. According to the
Al
> Arabiya News Channel, an international news outlet is based in
Dubai,
> United Arab Emirates, Mr. Najim directed his warning to Saudi youths
> studying abroad.
> >
> > Al Arabiya notes that Najimi stressed that this warning was not an
> official fatwa, or religious edict, just his personal opinion.
Najimi
> added that the issue "needs to be studied by the relevant religious
> bodies."
> >
> > Ethanol, a common type of biofuel, is made of the same type of
alcohol
> found in alcoholic beverages, and its production is similar to that
of
> hard liquor. Plant matter is fermented using yeast, and the result
is
> distilled to increase the concentration of alcohol.
> >
> > Fuels with high concentrations of ethanol – the most common being
> E85, a gasoline blend with 85 percent ethanol – can be used in
> flex-fuel vehicles, which make up more than seven million of the
roughly
> 250 million passenger cars and trucks on America's roads. Most
> gasoline sold in the United States contains about 10 percent
ethanol.
> The fuel is more common in many Latin American countries,
particularly
> Brazil.
> >
> > In addition to beverages and biofuels, ethanol is a widely used in
> industry for its properties as a solvent and an antiseptic. It's a
> common component of perfumes and paints. The chemical is also
necessary
> in the production of vinegar – one of the Prophet Muhammad's
> favorite seasonings.
> >
> > The Koran prohibits consumption of alcohol in three separate
verses
> that were written over a period of several years. The first mention
> occurs in 4:43, in which Muslims are told that they must not pray
while
> intoxicated. A verse written later – 2:219 – says that in wine
> and gambling "is great sin, and some profit, for men; but the sin is
> greater than the profit." Finally, in 5:90-91, intoxicants and
> gambling are called "an abomination" and "Satan's
> handiwork":
> >
> >
> > Satan's plan is (but) to excite enmity and hatred between you,
> with intoxicants and gambling, and hinder you from the remembrance
of
> Allah, and from prayer: will ye not then abstain?
> >
> > This admonition is waived in the hereafter, apparently: Many
passages
> in the Islamic holy book describe heaven as having rivers of wine.
> >
> > Ironically, it was Muslim chemists who introduced distillation to
the
> West. The process of distilling pure ethanol from wine was
perfected by
> 8th- and 9th-century Persian chemists, who used it to create
perfumes
> and eyeliner. Their writings were translated by European scholars
in the
> 12th century, and the process was used to make potable spirits. The
word
> "alcohol" is itself of Arabic origin.
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