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Originally Posted by Azy  The text says no drinks will intoxicate, and that the smell and taste of wine will be different, which are really the only reasons anyone drinks it, those properties define a drink particularly one like wine.
If you took all the sugar and caffeine and colourings and flavourings out of Coke and replaced them with orange juice, would it make sense to still call it Coke? |
Perhaps it is called wine in the Quran simply so we can relate to it. I mean, if it was called Dr Pepper or something, people wouldn't understand what it meant - alternatively, it could simply mean that: ''yeah it's wine without all the bad'' (hence the lack of intoxicant and smell etc).
Overall though, I think nycmuslim's post was quite succint: we shouldn't take the description too literally. None of us have been there and tasted it ;)