2. We have unsealed the choice Wine with the fingers of might and power.
The consumption of wine and other intoxicants is prohibited in the Kitab-i-Aqdas (see notes 144 and 170). (165:2)

Reference to the use of "wine" in an allegorical sense--such as being the cause of spiritual ecstasy--is found, not only in the Revelation of Baha'u'llah, but in the Bible, in the Qur'an, and in ancient Hindu traditions. (165:3)

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