Alcohol is allowed.

Mainstream Sunni and Shi’a Muslims claim to avoid consuming, producing, selling, and transporting all alcohol — which is impossible, since alcohol occurs in trace quantities in bread, fruit, vinegar, and a long list of ordinary consumer products. “Alcohol” is a chemistry term covering an entire class of compounds. It was never a coherent thing to ban.

Where moderation ends and addiction begins is left entirely to your own conscience.

Shafafi Islam does not set your limit, does not count your drinks, and does not appoint anyone to monitor you. You are an adult with absolute free will, and God is indifferent to whether you had a second glass.

What Shafafism does say is this: the one boundary that is not yours alone to draw is the point at which your drinking harms someone else. Driving drunk endangers other people. Violence, abuse, and destruction of property harm other people. Drinking your dependents into hardship harms other people. Those are harms, and they are the concern of any noble person — with or without a religion telling them so.

The rest is between you and your own honesty about yourself.