Sometimes God sends us some signs to warn of something, this time it's a warning against drinking and intoxicants. Any drug or drink gives access to our Jinn-companions to take over our bodies and minds. People who abuse alcohol and drugs always show a different personality because of this takeover by another entity. God warned us in His Quran of intoxicants, God said that Satan wants to provoke animosity and hatred among us through intoxicants and gambling.
[5:90] O you who believe, intoxicants, and gambling, and the altars of idols, and the games of chance are abominations of the devil; you shall avoid them, that you may succeed.
[5:91]
The devil wants to provoke animosity and hatred
among you through intoxicants and gambling, and to distract you from
remembering GOD, and from observing the Contact Prayers (Salat). Will
you then refrain?
In this piece of news we shall see how
God sent "Dean Harding" a wake up call, a very clear sign to stop
drinking, moreover God made a sign of him to warn other people of
drinking.
| 'People
think I've drunk too much' Sunday, 23 January, 2005, 00:21 GMT  By Jane Elliott BBC News health staff Kids standing on street corners shout out 'drunk' as Dean Harding walks by and bouncers often stop him going into their clubs because they worry that the 27-year-old has had too much to drink. But Dean is not a drunk, he is disabled. Although he has trouble with his mobility, most of Dean's injuries are hidden - brain injuries. He says that because he has few physical scars
people
will not accept his disability - and when he shows them his operation
scars on his neck they still dismiss him as a drunk.
Binge drinker Ironically Dean used to be a binge drinker. For two years from the age of 19, he drank from Thursday to Monday night, he got into fights and trouble followed him everywhere. But now he drinks rarely and little. After just one drink his speech starts to slur and his movement is effected, so Dean has learnt to be cautious. It was during one of his drinking bouts that Dean got the first of his two serious head injuries. He was outside a London club arguing when he fell into the path of a car. Despite his head injuries he says he received no brain scan and was merely given pain killers. In the second incident he was attacked in the toilets by a group of six men who beat him so badly that he needed six months treatment in hospital and it took him two years to learn to walk again. Doctors are not sure which of the incidents caused his clot to the brain. This caused a partial paralysis of the left side of his body because of the injury to the motor centers of his brain . Dean says his injuries were the catalyst he needed to get his life back on the right tracks. "I was always mixed up in violence. This was a turning point in my life. It has made me think I will make something of my life. Life is not about what I could have done, it will be about what I have done" Football prospect Always a keen footballer he played as a youngster for Fulham, Crystal Palace and West Ham schoolboys. As his drinking became more frequent Dean played less sport, but now he says he wants to get fit again. He regularly trains at the gym and dreams of running the London marathon. No mean feat for a young man who has just learnt to walk again. He reckons it will take him another five years before he can run, but says it is a goal to keep him going. "I want to run the marathon, I know it is a tall order, but I am not going to do it just sitting around." He is also going to college and studying English and spends his spare time working for the brain injury association Headway, which supports people with a brain injury and their family and friends. He talks to their members about the dangers of drink and the ignorance about head injuries. |
