The recent COVID19 outbreak got me thinking and have some questions on how the Islamic faithfuls handle the situation when it comes to things like sanitizing and maybe even use certain medicines that contain alcoholic substances.
From my understanding, alcohol is prohibited or is considered a taboo in the religion, so;
1. How do they sanitize if they got to places that have alcoholic based hand sanitizers?
2. How do they go about medications that are required for treatment but have some alcoholic content?
3. Most perfumes and deodorants I have come across have at least an alcohol substance in them, and yet I observe some of them highly use the body sprays. Isn't this against their religious principles?
Quran says that wine is the work of the devil.
It also says that Allah created heaven with rivers full of wine.
Muslims can drink alcohol and many do. Why not?
Because literature interpretation is subjective, and the shift away towards secularism means religious societies can become more progressive when it's convenient.
The Quran also says to kill the nonbelievers, but this is obviously very inconvenient because the feasibility of killing billions of people doesn't coincide with modern moral philosophy.
It becomes a double edged sword. The further away you get from the text, the lesser the objective interpretation. This lets the radicals take verses of their holy book and justify barbaric philosophy in accordance to their own beliefs, with slight reinforcements from the literature. On the same note, the original text and most objective interpretation isn't anything pretty either.
