Islam Guidance

verse91

(91) إِنَّما يُرِيدُ الشَّيْطانُ أَنْ يُوقِعَ بَيْنَكُمُ الْعَداوَةَ وَ الْبَغْضاءَ فِي الْخَمْرِ وَ الْمَيْسِرِ وَ يَصُدَّكُمْ عَنْ ذِكْرِ اللَّهِ وَ عَنِ الصَّلاةِ فَهَلْ أَنْتُمْ مُنْتَهُون

91. " Certainly Satan desires to cast enmity and hatred among you bywine and gambling, and to hinder you from the remembrance ofAllah, and from prayer. So will you stop ? "

Commentary :
Considering the concerning statistics, a great number of murders, crimes, accidents, divorces, psychic sicknesses, renal diseases and so on, are caused by wine, liquor. Here, in stating the philosophy of its prohibition, the Qur'an emphasizes on two points : social harms and spiritual losses, (including enmity, and neglecting both prayers and the remembrance of Allah).
Explanations :
1. Stating the philosophy of ordinances is one of the factors of the effectiveness of speech.
2. All the factors which may create grudge and rancour should be challenged against.
3. Any action or any person that causes enmity and hatred amongst people is Satanic.
4. Anything, like wine or gambling, which causes the negligence of a person from the remembrance of Allah and establishment of prayers is obscene.
5. Wherever enmity and hatred come forth, it is appropriate to divote material gains, whatever they may be. (There is some profit in wine and gambling, too, but, because of their evil effects, they are prohibited).
6. The mental harms and spiritual losses are the most important damages, both bodily and financially. Wine has also bodily harm, yet, here, hatred and negligence have been emphasized on.
Thus, the prohibition of drinking liquor and gambling, enjoined by Allah, is for the goodness and improvement of people's affairs both in this world and the Hereafter.
Ibn-Abbas, a leading commentator, says that the target of the verse is Sa'd-ibn-'Abi-Waghghas and a man from the Helpers who had compacted the agreement of brotherhood with each other. A man from among the Helpers invited sa'd to a party. They prepared a table of food and wine and drank so much so that they became intoxicated.
At that time they boasted to each other so violately that their dispute ended to a conflict. The Helper took a piece of bone and struck on the nose of Sa`d so vigorously that his nose was smashed. Then Allah sent down this verse about them.
The verse means that Satan wishes to seduce you and attract you toward drinking wine in order to take your wisdom from you, and persuade you to do some evil things that you do not do them in an ordinary state.
Ghattadah says that some people played gambling upon their own property and wives. At last, those who had lost their property and their wives, sat in grief, planning to take vengeance from their rivals. Therefore, gambling has no consequence but grudge and enmity.
By this way, Satan desires to hinder you from the remembrance of Allah, so that you do not offer your thanks for His bounties.
Satan also desires to make you neglectful of prayer, which is the firm base of the religion. So, obey Allah (s.w.t.) and be not heedless of His prohibition. The verse says:
" Certainly Satan desires to cast enmity and hatred among you bywine and gambling, and to hinder you from the remembrance of Allah, and from prayer. So will you stop? "
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