With regard to your first question on alcohol and drinking, Bahá'u'lláh, fully aware of the great misery that it brings about, prohibits it as He expressly states that everything that takes away the mind, or in other words makes one drunk, is forbidden.... (From a letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an individual believer dated 15 February 1926; The Compilation of Compilations, vol. II, Prohibition on Drinking Alcohol)
