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5. Intoxicants and Other Drugs

It is clear that intoxicants and narcotics have a harmful effect on man's physical and mental health and, as a consequence, on his life and his reason, offspring, work, properties, honor, and righteousness. It has been proven without doubt that intoxicants and other drugs cause considerable physical, social, and psychological disorders.   Therefore, all kinds of intoxicants and mind-affecting drugs have been prohibited in Islam. Their production and marketing is forbidden as is that of anything that is associated with them or assists in their production. This shows the concern of Islamic legislation over fourteen centuries for the protection ofman and the conservation ofhis social and physical environment against all forms and kinds of corruption, harm, damage and pollution.