Wine, like urine, is qaba (ghalîz) najâsat. (Please see the sixth chapter of the fourth fascicle of Endless Bliss for kinds of ‘najâsat’.) It is harâm, according to a unanimity of Islamic scholars, to use it in any way to make medicine from it, to mix it with clay, to make one’s animal drink it, to use it as an enema, or to sniff it into one’s nose. It is not permissible to sell it. Money earned thereby is harâm. It is not halâl for a Muslim to repay his debt with money earned by selling wine. That money will not be halâl for the creditor, either. Therefore, a wine seller should not be lent money. A Muslim who drinks even a small amount of wine will be chastised with one round of ‘hadd’, which means ‘flogging with eighty stripes’. On the other hand, consumption of the other three intoxicants will incur the chastisement ‘hadd’ only when the beverage drunk reaches the amount effective enough to intoxicate the consumer. Supposing the foaming of an amount of wine has been completed and you have boiled it until two-thirds of it is gone; it is unanimously stated (by Islamic scholars) that the remainder, as well as the spirit or the raqi obtained by distilling it, is a najâsat-i-ghalîza (qaba najâsat), like the wine itself. It is written in the book entitled Behjet-ul-fatâwâ (or Bahjat-ul-fatâwâ) that all the aforesaid brewages are harâm to drink, even a drop of them. More than forty percent of raqi is alcohol. When raqi that is obtained from wine is kept for a few years in oaken casks, it turns into brandy.  

Escaping torment in the next world is dependent only upon following Muhammad ‘alaihis-salâm’. He who follows the way guided by him will attain the love of Allahu ta’âlâ. Those who follow in his footsteps will be close to Allahu ta’âlâ. He who adapts himself to him will get the happiness of being a faithful born servant of Allahu ta’âlâ. The greatest ones of the more than a hundred and twenty-four thousand prophets that came to the world desired to follow him. If Hadrat Mûsâ (Moses) had lived in his time, despite his greatness, he would have preferred to follow him. All Muslims know that Hadrat ’Îsâ will descend from heaven and follow his way. Muslims who are of his ummat became the most auspicious and best of all people because they adapted themselves to him. Most of those who will enter Paradise are from among them, and they will enter before all other people.