al-Adrar al-Najima an Taati al-Muskirat wal-Mukhaddarat
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al-Adrar al-Najima an Taati al-Muskirat wal-Mukhaddarat (The Harms Resulting from the Consumption of Intoxicants and Narcotics) is a treatise by Abd al-Karim bin Sunitan al-Omari examining the Islamic legal rulings and multifaceted religious, health, social, and economic damages associated with various intoxicants and narcotic substances.
Purpose and Scope
The author composed the work to address what he identifies as one of the most perilous challenges facing Muslim society: the spread of intoxicating and mind-altering substances. Grounding his premise in the Islamic legal mandate to protect the intellect (hifz al-aql) so that individuals can properly fulfill their religious obligations, al-Omari outlines the principal categories of drugs, warns against the specific detriments of each substance, and illustrates their broader collective fallout.
Structure and Contents
The book is arranged into an introduction and three chapters:
- Chapter One: Types of Narcotics and Their Harms (Anwa al-Mukhaddarat wa-Adraruha): Opens with an introductory overview of the typological classification of narcotics, followed by five dedicated sections:
- Hashish and its harms.
- Khat (al-Qat), divided into four subsections addressing its botanical definition, cultivation areas (such as Northern and Southern Yemen, Kenya, Somalia, and Ethiopia), the Islamic ruling on its consumption, scriptural evidences for its prohibition, and its corruptive impacts.
- Opium, its derivatives, and their harms.
- Cocaine and its harms.
- Nutmeg and its harms.
- Chapter Two: Wine, Evidences for Its Prohibition, and Its Harms (al-Khamr wa-Adillat Tahrimiha wa-Adraruha): Details the textual proofs forbidding alcoholic drinks and examines the medical and spiritual ruin brought upon the drinker.
- Chapter Three: General Harms of Narcotics (al-Adrar al-Ammah lil-Mukhaddarat): Analyzes the broader ramifications of addiction, including religious detriments such as abandonment of prayer and neglect of religious duties, economic losses stemming from diminished labor productivity and state expenditures on law enforcement and interdiction, and the proliferation of crime and social breakdown.
Publication
The work was published by Dar al-Ma'athir wal-Tawzi' in 1421 AH (c. 2000 CE).
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