"The Alcohol"

The Alcohol was discovered and named by an Arabian scientist, and that its name is really Cohol, the Al part just means "The" in Arabic. So while Alcohol = The Cohol, the English-speaking world still says "The Alcohol" like a boss! :)

Here's another gem: "Chai" just means "Tea" in Arabic, yet in English it's not crazy to say "Chai tea", because saying "Tea tea" makes a whole lot of sense :)

I was told by a French friend Sandra Fagnoni that English 'Admiral' comes from French "Amiral" which in turn comes from Medieval Latin "Admiralis" (or admirallus) which then in turn comes from Arabic "Amir Al", which means "Commander of The", the Arabic rank apparently was "Amir Al-Bahr" which literally means "Commander of The Sea". Once again, looks like being called "Commander of The" makes sense to you people!! The mere thought of someone saying Admiral of the fleet out loud makes me want to cry!

And let's not forget Mūsā al-Khwārizmī, the inventor of the Algorithm, to whom many of us owe our livelihood. [Wikipedia Link to The inventor of Algorithm]

Apparently the same is true for Al+Gebra and Al+Kali.  Al+cohol is from the 1500's and was far enough back that it came to English through medieval Latin.  Cohol didn't even mean "fermented" or "drink", it originally was a type of powdered makeup. Since that powder was melted and cooled, it came to mean "distilled" on the street, and much later "alcohol of wine" meant taking fermented wine and distilling it to make the super-alcohol people some people are familiar with today versus the kind they talk about in scripture (which is just fermented from sitting out for a year, but not re-compounded on itself.) For More, Wiki - Distilled_beverage

So it's perhaps not safe, although it would be ironic to say that Islam brought us booze.  More likely Islam brought the world "cohol/kohl/kuhl" and the world bastardized it into ever clear all on its own!  ;)