First cup can endanger human beings
By Garba Wada Waziri
It is true that the beginning of everything will be the leading step to engage into much. And indeed, every beginning will end up with positive or negative. But here, the focus is on the “first cup”. This cup is nothing but the cup that will make a user to get more cups in his life. And it would enable him to lose his moral prestige, respect, image as well as good quality in the society.
To be frank, if someone by chance or accident builds a relationship with this cup, no doubt, his life will become spoilt. And it would be indebted with societal accusations.
As regard to this, I would like readers to read and observe philosophically in order to be able to forward more information about the first cup.
To link readers up with the real story, I would like to gist that I have a friend of mine since childhood. He (my friend) was initially innocent, gentle and with sound behaviour as well as respected and sociable. He is creative by status; he is one of the long standing contributing greatly to enhance the development of the society.
But, unfortunately, as life goes on, my friend has been more closely with hooligans. He once upon a time became a financer of those troops, that is, a gang leader for sabotaging the original background of societal orientation effort.
However, prior to this information about the condition of my friend, it baffled me to the extent that I kept asking myself, how could that be true? Why could that happen? But I was so shocked and surprised because of the answer I got. From here, I could not but believe that once devil is driving someone, it will be difficult to put a stop to it unless such a person rethinks or attains certain deformatory level.
At this level, it might have been too late that the devil has succeeded in helping him what he is.
However, more detail about my friend indicates that the first cup has already made him an addicted person as well as arrogant by nature through which even his parent, colleagues, wife(ves), brothers and learned people in the society could not preach or sermon him to destroy his relationship with this cup. He also one day found it difficult to move around freely in the society due to his normal drunkard behaviour.
As he drinks everyday - in the morning, afternoon, evening and night, nothing goes right because he is always around the “beer palour” where some join hands to urge him to continue in that direction.
As he lives in such life, my relationship with him became so detached to the extent that it took both of us over ten years without meeting each other. But from the report I received with source from a hooligan in his gang, my former friend had felt seriously sick and neither doctor, nurse, nor anybody was nursing him because formaly and when he was in strong relation with that cup, he was always against all norms, culture and values of the society.
As soon as I heard about that I went to his house but that guy was unable to recognize my voice due to the terrible and pitiful condition he was in. I again discovered that his skin had become like that of a lizard or any other reptile animal.
In addition, I spent almost 15 minutes standing at his front observing his breath, calling his name to recognize me but he could not. As I touched him, he responded, “are you the one?” I said, “yes.” I asked him, “what type of sickness is this?” he told me, “this sickness originated from a cup I built a relationship with during my days at “beer palour”.
I told him that had it been that he gave ear and hearken to our advice, sermons and preachings, I am sure, he would not have endangered his life in such a way.
When I further warned him as he is now paying the prices high, he said: “I was deceived to be a friend of the cup through some devil’s children who sacrificed themselves as the ambssadors or special advisers of Satan and propagators of his evil doctrines to most responsible and respected people like me before. But today, they all disappear from me, no one is hardly thinking about me. Unless you the true lover.”
Nevertheless, the results he got from marrying a cup were arrogance, insanity, disobedience and unhealthiness.
So, when we talk of arrogance, I can say, by being arrogant to the core, it led him to the state of unhealthy living and other crises here and there within the society. Also, insanity has made him a mad man who can walk any how to display unwanted behaviour, especially when drunk. He uttered unhealthy statements and abandoned reading of the Glorious Qur’an, Hadith and became an enemy of preachers or clerics in the society.
He was disobedient to an extent that he could smear personality of every person in the society, be it the Imam or other prominent persons. But he now testified that due to this terrible condition he found himself, he prefered to be reprimanded in a prison or a rehabilitation centre.
As he stopped narrating his ordeal, he cried, but I told him, “abokina (my friend), the only way out now is to seek forgiveness from Almighty Allah rather than crying.”
Lastly, I want to call on the general public to shun away from ‘first cup’ because that cup is very dangerous to life. It also leads someone to get millions of it. Moreover, the ‘first cup’ is not only dangerous to “beer friendly ones,” but even smokers of Indian hemp, cigarette and those on drug abuse and those taking liquid intoxication.
To add more on the disadvantages of this cup, I once again discover that the cup has effect on human life. Provided that one is interested in stepping into unlawful activities, he would be well assisted by this cup. For a decent life therefore, all and sundry in the society, especially the younger generation must refrain from the said ‘first cup’ as it always remains dangerous and deadly to its associates. A stitch in time saves nine.

Waziri is with our Features Unit.