…the wine which men drink… causeth their intelligence to pass away, their human nature to be perverted, their light to be changed, and their purity to be soiled… it will stupefy your minds, and turn your faces away from the Countenance of God, the All-Glorious, the Peerless, the Inaccessible. Approach it not, for it hath been forbidden unto you by the behest of God, the Exalted, the Almighty.
- Baha’u’llah (From a Tablet; ‘The Compilation of Compilations, vol. II, Prohibition on Drinking Alcohol’)
