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Abu Nawas recited poetry, with allegory and metaphor, which the enemies of Islam would take out of context and apply in a very literal sense.
Rumi also wrote poetry with wine mentioned in the verses, again allegorical and metaphorical in content - anyone can see this.
I know how these narratives form - when -uni-lingual people read - they take everything they read "literally", and are unable to fathom this thing we know as "contextual application".
These "uni-lingual" folk then write books claiming such and such was a notorious drunkard and evidence is presented in the form of the poetry they copy pasta into their books... hundreds of years pass and the lies in said book make it to acadaemia as articles which require further investigation and then, thesis are formed which in turn get peer reviewed and once again regurgitated.
Over the course of the regurgitations, the claim is made that "we've known you've all been secretly drinking for 'ages' " kinda thing.
Don't fall for the hype.
here is an example of a poem by Rumi in which he mentions the wine:
Wine Poems from Rūmī’s Diwān1) Ghazal 81
On first reading this, literallty and wihout consideration, you'd think Rumi had made halal that which was made haraam. But read it again.
"Fill the soul from that pre-existent cup" - he then mentions it as a thief of the heart and one which ambushes formal religion - meaning, compulsion. And compulsion is a sister to impulsion - he presents a clever nuance in the idea that people drink on impulse and then become compelled to act out of character - thief of the heart, ambusher of formal religion. See?
He then mentions something and likens it to a wine which springs from the heart (not the grape) and mixes with the human spirit - and gives your inner eye, clarity.
He then mentions that wine from grapes are a thing for the followers of Jesus pbuh but the Hallajjan wine he speaks of belongs to the followers of Qur'an - Hallajan wine is a reference to the famous 10th century mystic, Mansur al-Hallaj who was famous for hisstates of spiritual ecstasy. No alcohol required.
He then mentions vats of wine - alcoholic - but he advises "until you don't break the vats of alcoholic wine, you will never taste this (other non material) wine" - again, he speaks of, the hallajan ecstacy.
His prose goes on to glorify the sweetness of belief by likening it to the ecstacy of wine but only better. In fact he goes on to use another parable, when he interates that "one drop from this wine and it will turn your work into gold" - an alchemical reference used in metaphysical context, to help enable the reader to understand what they chase in the nashaa (ecstacy of alcohol) can never be satisfied, and only the sweetness of true belief can bring one the satisfaction.
The mention of this spiritually aware state what he refers to as "Hallajjan" and associating it with the one who "scatters bed roll and pillow" in the "pre-dawn" hours refers to the believer who is awakening for his dawn prayer rituals. And warns against the "bad companion" who "whispers" you to stay in bed and forget your salaah., he then ends with "never break the covenant with kings through weakness... meaning, you have to answer to many people in life and Allah in death, but none of these whom you ever answer to will ever be shaytaan, so why listen to him?
Clever stuff.
As you can see, Rumi never advocated drinking alcohol - he used the weakness of the people (alcohol) to show them the irony of what they consume and their faulty reasoning behind such addictions.
But ask a non-Muslim, and they be like "Oh yeah, Rumi, he enjoyed a little red didn't he? hehe".
Scimi
Rumi also wrote poetry with wine mentioned in the verses, again allegorical and metaphorical in content - anyone can see this.
I know how these narratives form - when -uni-lingual people read - they take everything they read "literally", and are unable to fathom this thing we know as "contextual application".
These "uni-lingual" folk then write books claiming such and such was a notorious drunkard and evidence is presented in the form of the poetry they copy pasta into their books... hundreds of years pass and the lies in said book make it to acadaemia as articles which require further investigation and then, thesis are formed which in turn get peer reviewed and once again regurgitated.
Over the course of the regurgitations, the claim is made that "we've known you've all been secretly drinking for 'ages' " kinda thing.
Don't fall for the hype.
here is an example of a poem by Rumi in which he mentions the wine:
Wine Poems from Rūmī’s Diwān1) Ghazal 81
Oh Cupbearer!
Fill the soul from that pre-existent cup, that thief of the heart, that ambusher of formal religion.
Fill it with the wine that springs from the heart and mixes with the spirit, the wine whose bubbling intoxicates the God-seeing eye.
That grape wine – it belongs to the followers of Jesus; but this Hallajian wine, it belongs to the followers of the Qurʾān.
Vats of this wine, vats of that: until you break that vat, you will never taste this wine.
That wine frees the heart from sorrow for an instant: never can it snuff out sorrow,never can it uproot malice.
One drop from this cup will turn your work into gold – may my soul be sacrificed to this golden cup!
When this state (of wine-drinking) comes, mostly it comes in the pre-dawn hours, to him who scatters his bed-roll and pillow.
Beware lest the bad companion deceive you through whisperings – never break the covenant with kings through weakness.
Fill the soul from that pre-existent cup, that thief of the heart, that ambusher of formal religion.
Fill it with the wine that springs from the heart and mixes with the spirit, the wine whose bubbling intoxicates the God-seeing eye.
That grape wine – it belongs to the followers of Jesus; but this Hallajian wine, it belongs to the followers of the Qurʾān.
Vats of this wine, vats of that: until you break that vat, you will never taste this wine.
That wine frees the heart from sorrow for an instant: never can it snuff out sorrow,never can it uproot malice.
One drop from this cup will turn your work into gold – may my soul be sacrificed to this golden cup!
When this state (of wine-drinking) comes, mostly it comes in the pre-dawn hours, to him who scatters his bed-roll and pillow.
Beware lest the bad companion deceive you through whisperings – never break the covenant with kings through weakness.
On first reading this, literallty and wihout consideration, you'd think Rumi had made halal that which was made haraam. But read it again.
"Fill the soul from that pre-existent cup" - he then mentions it as a thief of the heart and one which ambushes formal religion - meaning, compulsion. And compulsion is a sister to impulsion - he presents a clever nuance in the idea that people drink on impulse and then become compelled to act out of character - thief of the heart, ambusher of formal religion. See?
He then mentions something and likens it to a wine which springs from the heart (not the grape) and mixes with the human spirit - and gives your inner eye, clarity.
He then mentions that wine from grapes are a thing for the followers of Jesus pbuh but the Hallajjan wine he speaks of belongs to the followers of Qur'an - Hallajan wine is a reference to the famous 10th century mystic, Mansur al-Hallaj who was famous for hisstates of spiritual ecstasy. No alcohol required.
He then mentions vats of wine - alcoholic - but he advises "until you don't break the vats of alcoholic wine, you will never taste this (other non material) wine" - again, he speaks of, the hallajan ecstacy.
His prose goes on to glorify the sweetness of belief by likening it to the ecstacy of wine but only better. In fact he goes on to use another parable, when he interates that "one drop from this wine and it will turn your work into gold" - an alchemical reference used in metaphysical context, to help enable the reader to understand what they chase in the nashaa (ecstacy of alcohol) can never be satisfied, and only the sweetness of true belief can bring one the satisfaction.
The mention of this spiritually aware state what he refers to as "Hallajjan" and associating it with the one who "scatters bed roll and pillow" in the "pre-dawn" hours refers to the believer who is awakening for his dawn prayer rituals. And warns against the "bad companion" who "whispers" you to stay in bed and forget your salaah., he then ends with "never break the covenant with kings through weakness... meaning, you have to answer to many people in life and Allah in death, but none of these whom you ever answer to will ever be shaytaan, so why listen to him?
Clever stuff.
As you can see, Rumi never advocated drinking alcohol - he used the weakness of the people (alcohol) to show them the irony of what they consume and their faulty reasoning behind such addictions.
But ask a non-Muslim, and they be like "Oh yeah, Rumi, he enjoyed a little red didn't he? hehe".
Scimi
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He is the greatest poet with a heart of iron lol
go for it hehe