Baha'u'llah's Voice In The
Kitab-i-Aqdas
Indictments Against
Intoxicants
Words Of Shoghi Effendi and Abdu'l-Baha'i

"It is inadmissible that man,who hath been endowed with reason, should
consume that which stealeth it away. Nay, rather it behoveth him to comport
himself in a manner worthy of the human station, and not in accordance with
the misdeeds of every heedless and wavering soul".K-119 page 62. Baha'u'llah.

"It hath been forbidden you to smoke opium. We,truly,have prohibited this
practice through a most binding interdiction in the Book. Should anyone par-
take therof, assuredly he is not of Me. Fear God, O ye endued with under-
standing." K-190 page 88 Baha'u'llah.

"Beware lest ye exchange the Wine of God for your own wine, for it will
stupify your minds, and turn your faces away from the Countenance of God,
the All-Glorious, the Peerless, the Inaccessible. Approach it not, for it
hath been forbidden unto you by the behest of God, the Exalted, the Almighty."
Baha'u'llah
Abdu'l-Baha

"The Aqdas prohibits both light and strong drinks because alcohol
leadeth the mind astray and causeth the weakening of the body.

""Shoghi Effendi, in letters written on his behalf, states that this
prohibition includes not only the consumption of wine but of "everything that
deranges the mind", and he clarifies that the use of alcohol is permitted only
when it constitutes part of a medical treatment which is implemented"under the
advice of a competant and conscientious physician, who may have to prescribe it
for the cure of some special ailment"".

Note 144 pages 226 and 227 Notes The Most Holy Book

Gambling and the use of opium have been forbidden unto you. Eschew them
both, O people, and be not of those who transgress. Beware of using any
substance that induceth sluggishness and torpor in the human temple and
inflicteth harm upon the body. We, verily, desire for you naught save what shall
profit you, and to this bear witness all created things, had ye but ears to hear.

K-155 page 75 Baha'u'llah The Most Holy Book.

170. the use of opium...any substance that indceth sluggishness and torpor
K-155

"This prohibition of the use of opium is reinterated by Baha'u'llah in the final
paragraph of the Kitab-i-Aqdas. In this connection Shoghi Effendi stated that one of
requirements for "a chaste and holy life" is total abstinence ...from opium and from
similar habit-forming drugs".Heroin,hashish and other derivatives of cannabis such
as marijuana ,as well as hallucinogenic agents such as LSD, peyote and similar
substances, are regarded as falling under this prohibition."page 238 Notes
Kitab-I-Aqdas