BAHÁ'Í FAITH

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While Baha’is are prohibited from drinking alcohol, it isn’t considered “morally wrong” in the same category as stealing or committing adultery.

 

For Baha’is there are two kinds of laws: spiritual and social. Spiritual laws, such as fasting and prayer, remain constant; social laws are tailored to the needs of the age and can change with each prophet, as new problems and/or information necessitate. Some past prophets had no laws against drinking.

 

In this age, however, recent studies strongly suggest that consumption of alcohol can lead to irreversible brain damage, especially in adolescence; moreover, many regretful actions have occurred by those under the influence, and often violent crimes have been committed, later correlated with alcohol consumption. As Baha’u’llah states,  “It is unwise for an intelligent person to drink that which depriveth him of his intelligence…[his] human nature to be perverted, [his] light to be changed, and [his] purity to be soiled.”