Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan (1200–1550 A.D.) c7.s4.66

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drinking among Muslim women in the South in modern times. Crooke, Herklot’s Islam, 47. Compare A., 505 for an illustration of a tutor where drinking leads to murder. Compare also an interesting discussion in F.F., 141 which reveals that in some cases people divorced their wives while in a state of drunkenness and watned to revoke afterwards in a state of sobriety. This led to complications, since in certain cases a divorce becomes irrevocable and absolute under Hanafite law. Interesting examples are on record about drinking among members of the religious classes. Compare Raverty, 754 for a perfect teetotaler, which being exceptional, was worthy of mention. Compare the bitter exposition of Amir Khusrau, who denounces the ‘Ulama for pouring liquor ‘in the same bosom in which the Qur’an is treasured.’ (Vide M.A., 58). Compare the case of a Muazzin (a reciter of the call to prayer) appearing in the mosque smelling of liquor. (I.K., IV, 175). Compare M.A., 85 for the secret drinking of a recluse in the company of the Sultan and his state of intoxication. Compare T.S.S., 33 for the story of a famous Afghan noble named Miyan Bayazid who was killed in a battle against the Mughals in a state of perfect stupefaction; also A.N., I, 131, how a few Mughals under the exhilarating influence of drink, scattered an enormous host of Gujaratis. Compare Temple, 226; P. (hin), 146; Shah, 163 for drinking among Hindus who sometimes lost ‘the poor wits’ they had into the bargain.