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Originally Posted by Azy  In your previous post you said:
"This suggest that the Quran is indeed speaking of a type of wine as opposed to wine itself."
Forgive me but I just don't see how this sentence makes any sense.
Wine is wine by virtue of the ingredients and the process of fermentation to produce alcohol.
There's a perfectly good name for drinks that haven't been made that way: fruit juice. Better yet, just pick any other name because it's not like anything we know, and it's absolutely nothing like wine so maybe a name that better reflects that?
You might as well say that in Paradise you can eat pork, but it's pork that comes from a chicken and tastes like pineapple. |
I also stated that a scholar views the usage of wine as a metaphor. So I would take his stance over mine. Why it is referred to (in the Quran) as wine may have something to do with the arabic language (or for the reasons I gave previously) - though I cannot comment with certainty as my own view point is merely conjecture based on the english translation of the Quran. I haven't studied the arabic version to the limited extent I have done of the english translation.