The Bee
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[16:67]
And [We grant you nourishment] from the fruit of date-palms and vines: from it you derive intoxicants as well as wholesome sustenance – in this, behold, there is a message indeed for people who use their reason!

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* v.67 : The term sakar (lit., “wine” or, generically, “intoxicants”) is contrasted here with rizq hasan (“wholesome sustenance”), thus circumscribing both the positive and the negative properties and effects of alcohol. Although this sūrah was revealed about ten years before the Qur’anic prohibition of intoxicants in 5:90-91, there is no doubt that their moral condemnation is already implied in the above verse (Ibn ‘Abbās, as quoted by Tabarī; also Rāzī).