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Originally Posted by Azy  This is exactly what I'm talking about... can you relate to it? As a muslim surely the answer would be no. |
By relate I mean in the word used as opposed to the actual product - most muslims know what wine is seeing as it contains alcohol and what not. Just because we aren't allowed to drink it, doesn't mean we don't know what it is
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I do think you're right that it's meant to be more of a metaphorical description, it's just the choice of words seems very strange to me.
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I'll have a read up in the translations of those quranic ayats. Maybe a scholars interpretation will yield an answer (they usually contain some sort of historical relevance to the ayats and why they were revealed, etc).
Overall though, I'm fairly certain that the usage of the word 'wine' in the Quran is indeed metaphorical as opposed to say a contradiction or an absolute (infact, I don't even think it is supposed to have any deeper meaning to it other than the name of the drink!)