Intoxicant Person

THE DISPOSITION OF INTOXICANT PERSON IN ISLAMIC JURISPRUDENCE

INTRODUCTION: INTOXICANT AND INTOXICANT PERSON

Intoxicant is an agent that intoxicates, especially an alcoholic beverage. It is a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent and a drug that can produce a state of intoxication. People who drink liquor or brew containing alcohol or taking drugs is called intoxicant person.

A distilled beverage, liquor, or spirit is an alcoholic beverage containing ethanol that is produced by distilling (concentrating by distillation) ethanol produced by means of fermenting grain, fruit, or vegetables. This excludes undistilled fermented beverages such as beer, wine, and hard cider.

The word "liquor" and its close relative "liquid" were derived from Latin verb liquere, meaning "to be fluid." An early use of the word in the English language, meaning simply "a liquid," can be dated to 1225. The first use of this word meaning "a liquid for drinking" occurred in the 14th century. Its use as a term for “an intoxicating alcoholic drink” appeared in the 16th century.

The term "spirit" referred to alcohol stems from Middle Eastern alchemy. These alchemists were more concerned with medical elixirs than with transmuting lead into gold. The vapour given off and collected during an alchemical process (as with distillation of alcohol) was called a spirit of the original material.

RELIGIONS’ OPINION ABOUT INTOXICANT

Hinduism

Like other religions, Hinduism generally disapproves of the use of non-pharmaceutical drugs. In the past, however, drugs played an important part in worship. Drugs have become as a type of offering to priest. Some Hindu mystics still use cannabis as an aid to spiritual experience.

Hindu beliefs about appropriate use of cannabis illustrate the capacity of cultural systems to order and direct the course of complex phenomenal events. Cannabis manifests diverse and contradictory effects. These depend not only on dose, frequency...