Intellect and the faculty of comprehension are God's gifts
whereby man is distinguished from other animals. Will a wise man want to lose
this Light in the darkness of intoxication? No, by God! This will not satisfy
him! He will, rather, do that which will develop his powers of intelligence and
understanding, and not increase his negligence, heedlessness and decline. This
is an explicit text in the perspicuous Book, wherein God hath set forth every
goodly virtue, and exposed every reprehensible act.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (The
Compilation of Compilations, vol. II, Prohibition on Drinking Alcohol)
