Do Muslims Drink Alcohol?
Muslim societies view Alcohol drinking as a Sin.
Allah the Exalted forbids wine and warns us of approaching it. Therefore, if anyone does not avoid it, he then disobeys Allah and His Messenger and thus entails punishment.
The punishment for drinking alcohol in Islam is flogging according to the consensus of the jurists.
https://islamqa.info/en/answers/20037/punishment-for-drinking-alcohol
Before the 12th century, Shariah Law appeared to permit the drinking of alcoholic beverages to excess.
But from the 12th century, the Hanafi school embraced the general prohibition of all alcoholic beverages.
Homemade or counterfeit alcohol, is one of the primary sources of unrecorded alcohol use in Muslim countries.
https://harmreductionjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12954-024-01087-7
But Muslims, of course, are no different to any other humans. All the factors that can make anyone turn to alcohol – social norms, peer pressure, trauma and stress – apply to Muslims too.
https://alcoholchange.org.uk/blog/as-a-muslim-i-found-myself-even-more-susceptible-to-alcohol-harm
Alcohol use by Muslims in America.
46.6% of Muslim students in America drank alcohol in a 2001 study.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20737346/
Alcohol use by Muslims in France.
28% of male Muslims in France declared to be drinking alcohol in 2019.
Only 15% of the female Muslims declared drinking alcoholic beverages in the same period.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1154600/muslims-alcohol-consumption-by-gender-france/
Alcohol use by Muslims in India.
A 2021 study on India stated that about 6% of Muslim men consumed alcohol.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1321320/india-alcohol-consumption-by-religion
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