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What is the Islamic view on drinking a lot of water?

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Drinking water is permissible, but excessive consumption of it is forbidden if it reaches the point of harming the body or being wasteful, for Allah Almighty says: "And eat and drink, but be not excessive. Indeed, He likes not those who commit excess."

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