Please Read Carefully, and Don’t Drink While You’re Reading.
Posted on September 22, 2009
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So, I’m working on an in-depth feature for a magazine I freelance for about alcohol and Muslims, and Readers, I’m going to need your help.
The article I’m working on will be focused on taking a closer look at how our generation views alcohol. Do we drink? Do we not drink? Do we think it’s okay? Do we avoid it like the plague?
Over the next few months, I’ll be interviewing a number of experts, including medical doctors, psychologists, politicians, and clergymen/women associated with various religions. I’ll also be researching the history of alcohol, its merge into mainstream/middle class society, and the legal drinking age around the world — and this is where you come in.
Because I’m super lucky that so many of you follow this little love of mine, which I affectionately refer to as The Slice, I’m going to run daily polls on this site, which I hope you will participate in. Using this blog to poll readers is just another way to collect more data. For some of the polls, you will be allowed to select more than one answer, for others, just one answer per vote. Through a few online tools, we have a pretty good idea of who comes to this site (i.e. what country you live in, age, gender, occupation, etc.) but over time, we’ll be adding a few additional polls, which will give us a more detailed look at the demographic that this site attracts.
SOL’s day-to-day content and layout will not change. The only tweak will be that an alcohol-related poll will be added to the end of each post from now through the end of the year, or until my editor tightens my deadline.
PLEASE NOTE: Your answers to EVERY POLL are COMPLETELY ANONYMOUS, and by that I mean that even I cannot even see who voted how.
I’m really looking forward to embarking on this project, and I think the findings will be extraordinary.
So, what are you waiting for? Gitsa votin’ y’all!
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Sometimes I fall into the mistake of drinking – big no no but it happens. It’s not something I plan but sometimes if there is a party (rarely) I’ll have a glass.
I avoid it like it is poison.
I used to drink before converting to islam, but since then I have given up alcohol completely. I will however occasionally go to bars or restaurants that serve alcohol with friends, or attend private parties with alcohol.
I’ve never drank in my life, but I’m waiting till I get to heaven Inshallah to get the good stuff!
I’d be very interested to read your article. Good luck writing it!
I have had a drink a couple of times when I was about 16. Both times I felt pressured to by my friends and both times I was nearly sick after. I hate the taste of alcohol.
After that I was stronger to say no to my friends.
I’m with Becky. I drank quite a bit before I reverted, and I’ll admit (astaghfirullah) I did drink one time since (2 years ago, I think) because I gave in to peer pressure. But now, I do avoid drinking it myself, but I do go out with friends/acquaintances (sp?) to places that serve alcohol. Oddly, I went to an Eid party that served alcohol.
I actually know quite a few Muslims who drink. They are in my age group (i.e. early to late 20s). I remember talking to a Muslim guy I know once, and he said that he drinks Coronas, and I said that it was alcohol, and he acted like he didn’t realize.
From my experience, I would say that most of the drinking is done by males, but I have seen some females who drink (visibly).
I avoid alcohol like poison. I have never seen someone drink and have never seen a bottle of alcohol. I don’t buy vanilla flavouring if it has alcohol in it.
Not only is it against Islam, the results from drinking as just horrible – drinking and driving accidents, passing out at parties, killing your liver just to name a few.
I think this generation has two sides to it: bombarded religiously and academically about the pitfalls about drinking and the peer pressure to do it.
it just depends what path we take. I am totally and utterly against drinking and interaction with alcohol.
im born muslim but never practiced except for ramadan until i was 18/19
ive never drank, never been anywhere nr it till i was 18 and went clubbin all of 6 times and was surrounded by the horrid smell! eeecchh bk then i cudv drank n nobody wudv known except for God of course n it wudv been okay
i knw of alotta muslim guys who drink….these r guys who basicly knw its wrng but dnt knw why, whose folks hv never enquired bout where they r wat theyr doin or even noticed when theyv cme bk hme drunk – generation gap in tihnkin n understndain in culture n religion
these guys often hang out with non muslim frends who dirnk or other muslims like thmselves n make up their own version of what is halaal/haraam
my non muslim frends r fab, they avoid drinking when im out with thm for dinner etc
I’ve never had a drop of alcohol and would never care to. I however, have loads of friends who do so. They have never invited me to their parties and stuff because like one of my friends said:” We don’t want you to see us drunk out of our minds and doing stupid stuff.” In any case I know of quite a few Muslims who drink, and most of them don’t really practice Islam anyways.However, there are some people like Ismailis who happily say that they drink alcohol and enjoy drinking it.
I’ve never drank and never seen anyone else drink, either. To my knowledge, all the people that I know do not drink and never have done so, either.
I’ve never even felt the desire to drink. I think that’s largely because I went to an Islamic school and had Muslim friends growing up. Because no one I knew drank, I didn’t think of it as a rite of passage or something ultra-cool, you know?
Personally I find seeing people drunk, like in movies, disgusts me. I just think it’s so stupid to not be in control of your mind and it really does not appeal to me.
fyi, this poll only let you pick one answer.
I have never and shall not, incha’allah simply because this unplugg your mind and we should keep it always awake!
This is an interesting post, and interesting blog to keep with it so Eid Mubarak for all of you!
My brother’s good friend drinks wine at times, says a little is good for his stomach, and it relaxes him at times. He never gets drunk. He says he’s a bad Muslim. He says his wife is a good one because she does not drink. hmmmm
I personally don’t think he should use the word ‘good or bad’ Muslim when talking about alcohol. Alcohol alone does not make him overall a bad person or a bad Muslim….
I think this is a generation gap. A lot of young people don’t honor their religion or chosen lifestyle like the elders did/do. We need a reconnection.
I personally don’t drink, but I remember a doctor even telling me to drink a little wine for some ailment I had! Imagine that!!!
I don’t pass judgment on anyone who does or doesn’t drink alcohol. I feel that that is between them and Allah. They know what they are supposed to be doing….and Allah knows best!
Glad to say I’ve never had alcohol myself, but before I started wearing hijab I used to go out where people would drink. Don’t really think it’s appropriate now (well, not that it was ever appropriate!).
I don’t know any females who admit to drinking. As far as men go, nobody declares it but I don’t think they feel stigma like the women in my culture would so they don’t go out of their way to hide it. Totally agree with above comment, generation gap means parents don’t know what signs to look for…
Nope, never (not like my parents keep me far from their sight to begin with) and insha’Allah I never will!
Of course there are times where one wonders how it tastes like, but I know the consequences and it stinks.
Sadly, my best female cousin does and she’s my age. We used to be pretty close, but now that she drinks and parties and e.t.c, I’m the one who severed ties (well, not fully). I just don’t need people influencing me.
I have some acquaintances who do at my school, but none of my own friends drink. There are so many BETTER things to do at a party than get drunk.
And there is NO generation gap in my family, oh Lord. My parents want to know where we are and what we’re doing at all times so I’m glad they’re concerned and informed enough to care :]
It’s “Boison ” ,(as my daughter would say)
and I have no desire of even tasting it !