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Originally Posted by Azy  If it is as SixTen said, similar in name only, why call it wine at all? It doesn't taste like wine, it doesn't intoxicate, why would anyone describe this as wine since the name is misleading and gives no indication as to the properties of the drink mentioned? |
Because it will be a wine of different kind? Btw, it does mention one main difference in its properties -- it doesn't intoxicate.
It is not Al-Birr (piety, righteousness, and obedience to Allāh, etc.) that you turn your faces towards east and (or) west (in prayers); but Al-Birr is (the quality of) the one who believes in Allāh, the Last Day, the Angels, the Book, the Prophets and gives his wealth, in spite of love for it, to the kinsfolk, to the orphans, and to Al-Masākīn (the poor), and to the wayfarer, and to those who ask, and to set slaves free, performs As-Salāt, and gives the Zakāt, and keep their word whenever they make a promise, and who are patient in extreme poverty and ailment (disease) and at the time of persecution, hardship, and war. Such are the people of the truth and they are Al-Muttaqūn (the pious).