No, it's not specifially grape wine - it's intoxication that's forbidden.
The ways in which people deal with this varies, and of course there are plenty of Muslims who do drink (even in countries where it's forbidden - generally the rich will find ways around inconvenient rules) but The Prophet Mohamed instructed his followers that if a substance was intoxicating when taken in large amounts, then it was forbidden to take it even in small amounts.
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Date: 2010-11-20 09:12 am (UTC)The ways in which people deal with this varies, and of course there are plenty of Muslims who do drink (even in countries where it's forbidden - generally the rich will find ways around inconvenient rules) but The Prophet Mohamed instructed his followers that if a substance was intoxicating when taken in large amounts, then it was forbidden to take it even in small amounts.