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This article in which Hadhrat Ahmadas defined alcoholic drinks as one of the two great vices was written with the view to present to the world the remedy for devouring the evil of the times. 179 He added: 'Drunkenness is the root of all evil and the intoxicated man is likely to commit the most horrible crimes on the slightest provocation. Other evils are inseparable from it. Piety and drunkenness are like light and darkness respectively and can never exist together in the same place. The man who is not aware of its evil consequences is not far sighted. '180. He also stated that every person who drinks alcohol has the sin of those who drink it under his influence on his shoulders and he called upon the wise to desist from it and shun this evil because it is an addiction which destroys man in so much that it damages the mind and kills thousands of people every year while it also earns one severe punishment in the Hereafter. 181 He declared that it breeds lack of piety and removes the fear of God from one's heart 182 because its consumption and the fear of God do not go together. 183. Hadhrat Ahmadas attributed the deplorable state of the. European and American societies to the consumption of alcohol and stated that its use was the cause of lack of piety amongst these nations 184 and the root of their destruction. 185 He appealed to the emotions of Muslims by reminding them that the Holy. Quran had not permitted its use and the noble Prophet of. Islams had always abstained from every kind of intoxicant. He therefore asked them that if they indulged themselves with any kind of intoxicant, then whose way did they, despite their claim to be Muslims, profess to follow. 186 179. Ibid. 180. Ibid. 181. Ahmad, [Hadhrat] Mirza Ghulam. Kashti Nuh, p. 65; Ruhani Khazain, vol. 19, pp. 70/71 182. Ibid. , Naseem e Dawat, No. 2, pp. 68; Ruhani Khazain, vol. 19, p. 433 183. Ibid. , p. 69; Ruhani Khazain, vol. 19, p. 434 184. Ibid. , pp. 67/8; Ruhani Khazain, vol. 19, p. 432/33 185. Ibid. , Kashti Nuh, f/n. p. 66; Ruhani Khazain, vol. 19, p. 71 163 186. Ibid.