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Islam is
the religion of safety, it saves people from what ever hurts or
makes them ill, Allah is the Creator of all things and He is the
All-knowing of every thing, He has created things for reasons,
we may know some of them and we may not, but we believe that
Allah is the merciful and guardian, He created things and to
test us with and distinguish the people who obey His orders or
not. The prohibition of the pork was mentioned in the Holy Qur'an's verses in four points. ALLAH Almighty says :
(إِنَّمَا حَرَّمَ
عَلَيكُم المَيتَةَ وَالدَّمَ وَلَحمَ الخِنزِيرِ وَمَا أُهِلَّ
بِهِ لِغَيرِ اللَّهِ فَمَن اضطُرَّ غَيرَ بَاغٍ وَلاَ عَادٍ فَلاَ
إِثمَ عَلَيهِ إِنَّ اللَّهَ غَفُورٌ رَحِيمٌ) البقرة (173)
(He has only forbidden you dead meat, and blood,
and the flesh of swine, and that on which any other name has
been invoked besides that of Allah. But if one is forced by
necessity, without willful disobedience, nor transgressing due
limits - then is he guiltless. For Allah is Oft-Forgiving Most
Merciful)
(surah 2: verse # 173)
( حُرِّمَت عَلَيكُم
المَيتَةُ وَالدَّمُ وَلَحمُ الخِنزِيرِ وَمَا أُهِلَّ لِغَيرِ
اللَّهِ بِهِ وَالمُنخَنِقَةُ وَالمَوقُوذَةُ وَالمُتَرَدِّيَةُ
وَالنَّطِيحَةُ وَمَا أَكَلَ السَّبُعُ إِلاَّ مَا ذَكَّيتُم وَمَا
ذُبِحَ عَلَى النُّصُبِ وَأَن تَستَقسِمُوا بِالأَزلاَمِ ذَلِكُم
فِسقٌ اليَومَ يَئِسَ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا مِن دِينِكُم فَلاَ
تَخشَوهُم وَاخشَونِي اليَومَ أَكمَلتُ لَكُم دِينَكُم وَأَتمَمتُ
عَلَيكُم نِعمَتِي وَرَضِيتُ لَكُم الإِسلاَمَ دِينًا فَمَن
اضطُرَّ فِي مَخمَصَةٍ غَيرَ مُتَجَانِفٍ لاثمٍ فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ
غَفُورٌ رَحِيم) سورة المائدة آية (3)
(Forbidden to you (your food) are: dead meat,
blood, the flesh of swine, and that on which has been invoked
the name of other than Allah; that which has been killed by
strangling, or by a violent blow, or by a headlong fall, or by
being gored to death; than which has been (partly) eaten by a
wild animal; unless you are able to slaughter it (in due form);
that which is sacrificed on stone (altars); (forbidden) also is
the division (of meat) by raffling with arrows: that is impiety.
This day have those who reject Faith given up all hope of your
religion: yet fear them not but fear Me. This day have I
perfected your religion for you, completed my favour upon you,
and have chosen for you Islam as your religion. But if any is
forced by hunger, with no inclination transgression, Allah is
indeed Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful).(surah
5 verse no: 3)
(He has only forbidden you dead meat, and blood,
and the flesh of swine, and any (food) over which the name of
other than Allah has been invoked. But if one is forced by
necessity, without willful disobedience, nor transgressing due
limits, then Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful).
(The Bee's Chapter...verse no: 115)
The
health risks which are related to eating pork
The
difference between pork & other Cattle's meat:
Pork
includes a big quantity of sebum inside the muscular cells in
the meat. It also exists outside the cell in the connective
tissues in high turbidity. Sebum is an oily substance secreted
by the skin of mammals to keep it from drying and cracking. It
contains fat and the debris from fat producing cells.
While the sebum of cattle's meat is isolated
from the muscular tissue and it isn't pasteurized inside its
cells, it is pasteurized outside the cells and in the
connective tissues.
The scientific studies proved that the
herbivore's fats are emulsified and absorbed in the human's
intestines when he eats it, then it is converted in his body
in spite of the fact that the emulsification is difficult in
his intestines and the pork's fats are absorbed without any
conversion or deposition in human tissues as porky fats.
And the cholesterol, which results from
pork's analysis in the body appears in the blood in the form
of semi-cholesterol which leads to a large rise in the blood
pressure and arteriosclerosis. These are dangerous factors
that introduce filling of the heart muscle, and professor
Roff found that cholesterol that is found in the cancer
rover cell is like the cholesterol which is found when
eating pork.
Pork is rich with compounds that contains a
high rate of sulfur and which affects the tissues absorption
ability. This leads to the deposit of the mucous substance
in sinews, ligaments, cartilages between vertebrae and to
degeneration in the bones.
The tissues that contain sulfur are damaged,
and by rotting they produce a bad odor and cause hydrogen
sulphate gas. It was noticed that the containers that
contain pork, although perfectly closed, expel odor from the
room after few days as a result of it's unsustainable odor.
In
contrast, other types of meat were passed through the same
experiment and it was found that the rotting of beef is
slower than pork, and its rotten odor doesn't spread from
it. Pork also contains a high ratio of growth hormone which
has a negative effect on infections. It also has an effect
on the stomach growth (potbelly) and increases the growth
rates for cancer.
According to professor Roff studies of fatty
meals that contain pork consider pork essential in a cell
turning cancerous as it contains growth hormones and it has
a great effect in raising blood cholesterol.
Diseases transported by pork:
Islam
forbids pork and Muslims obey the order of Allah without
hesitation, but even modern scientists have reached this
astonishing result.
It's
amazing that pigs are rich pasture for more than 450
epidemic diseases and play the role of intermediary to
transfer 57 diseases to man. In addition to these diseases
that are caused from eating pork are: dyspepsia,
atherosclerosis and many others.
The pig
itself is responsible for transferring 27 epidemic diseases
to humans and some other animals carry other diseases, but
pork is the main source of diseases as: The liar
hydrophobia, Wile disease, Japanese fever, Malta fever,
Scrofula, Meningitis, krip epidemics, The pig's flu &
others.
تحريم شرب الدم
Blood eating is banned in Islam
Allah
says:
(Say: "I find not in the message received by me
by inspiration any (meat) forbidden to be eaten by one who
wishes to eat it, unless it be dead meat, or blood poured forth,
or the flesh of swine, - for it is an abomination - or, what is
impious, (meat) on which a name has been invoked, other than
Allah's". But (even so), if a person is forced by necessity,
without wilful disobedience, nor transgressing due limits, - thy
Lord is Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful.) [6:145]
Al Qortubi said: “Scholars agreed on blood being Haram (Islamically
prohibited), impure, non-edible and not beneficial.”
Health risks of consuming blood:
Blood carries different poisons, harmful wastes
and compounds, as one of its important roles is the transport of
food metabolism wastes from the cells to be excreted; the most
important ones being : Urea, Ureic acid, Keratin and carbon
dioxide. Blood also carries some poisons from the intestines to
the liver to be modified.
Once a big amount of blood is consumed, those carrying harmful
compounds and those resulting from the digestion of blood itself
get absorbed and their levels increase in the body. This leads
to an increase in Urea’s levels, which may result in brain
dysfunction leading to coma.
This is similar to the diseased state in which bleeding of the
upper digestion tract occurs and, normally, the accumulated
blood is removed to prevent its harm to the body and the brain
(eventually coma).
Thus, blood contains harmful compounds even if taken from a
healthy animal in addition to its content of parasites and germs
if taken from an originally ill animal.
Blood is a suitable environment for microbial
growth:
It is medically known that blood is one of the
best environments for the growth of different types of microbes
and as it contains the best nutrition, it is used in
laboratories to prepare microbial cultures.
Is blood suitable as a human food?
Blood content of digestible proteins such as
albumins, globulins and fibrinogens is little (8g/100ml) and the
same is true with fats, whereas it contains a big amount of
haemoglobin, which is a complex protein and so very hard to be
digested, and in most cases the stomach can not stand it.
Moreover, if blood is coagulated its digestion becomes harder as
fibrinogen in this case is transformed into fibrin, forming a
net that contains red blood cells and fibrin is known to be one
of the worst and hardest proteins to be digested.
Consequently, health experts did not consider blood in any way
suitable for human consumption.
Is any blood consumption acceptable?
According to the Hadeeth of Prophet Muhammad
there are two forms of meat which contain blood but are
permissible: the spleen and liver of the permitted animals.
Conclusion :
This is why Muslims are required to eat meat that
is Halal, which means meat that has been drained of its blood
during slaughter. This is a requirement from Allah, and a
scientific health benefit. Therefore any meat that is uncooked
and contains blood is forbidden, due to its harm to health.
Islam protects people from any harms that can be transmitted
from unhealthy food.
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