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Adnan Oktar
(Harun Yahya)

The Killing of People Who Drink Alcohol

If he is intoxicated, flog him; again if he
is intoxicated, flog him; again if he is

intoxicated, flog him if he does it again a

fourth time, kill him. (Sunan Abu Dawud,
Book 38, Hadith 4469)

This commandment, which appears nowhere in the Qur'an, was

added onto Islam with this superstition. Yet verses of the Qur'an
speak of the existence of people who are Muslims and who even dis-
charge their religious obligations despite drinking alcohol. One
verse says:

You who believe, do not approach the prayer when you are
drunk, so that you will know what you are saying … (Qur'an,
4:43)

There are two important pronouncements in this verse. A Mus-
lim may have sinned by drinking alcohol, but he has not renounced
the faith or become an unbeliever. The verse explicitly says that there
may be those among Muslims who drink out of error, but these are

advised to be sober when they pray. God has forbidden someone

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