Pork & Logic
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Are you sure? confused
Then chicken must be haram because they dig up worms from the ground. And fish eat each other and even human flesh.four legged animals
See 5.1 Sahih International O you who have believed, fulfill contracts. Lawful for you are the animals of grazing livestock except for that which is recited to you - hunting not being permitted while you are in the state of i?ram. Indeed, Allah ordains what He intends.
Salaam
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four legged animals
See 5.1 Sahih International O you who have believed, fulfill contracts. Lawful for you are the animals of grazing livestock except for that which is recited to you - hunting not being permitted while you are in the state of i?ram. Indeed, Allah ordains what He intends.
Salaam
This verse speaks about what is allowed during the restricted months. During these months hunting is not allowed, so they can only eat tamed animals without violating the restricted months rule. Apart from the restricted months, this verse applies
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. (6145)
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Here's an article from the Guardian on the taste of human flesh voodoo eat wow
""What does human meat taste like?After a hoax in which a German restaurant appeared willing to serve spare body parts as gourmet meals, I tackle the burning question of the day what does human flesh taste like?
Recent reports suggested that a German restaurant was looking for diners willing to donate body parts that it said it would turn into gourmet meals - that annoying spare finger or testicle that you've been lugging around all these years, for example. Although exposed this week as a publicity stunt, many people (well, me) are curious to know what human would actually taste like. So in the spirit of public service, I tried to find out.One company supposedly started selling a "Healthy Human Flesh Alternative" based on Tofu - Hufu - back in 2005. They described the taste of their dubious product as follows "If you've never had human flesh before, think of the taste and texture of beef, except a little sweeter in taste and a little softer in texture. Contrary to popular belief, people do not taste like pork or chicken."
Unfortunately it turned out to be a spoof, so "sweet soft beef" is a dubious claim at best, and it certainly flies in the face of the overwhelming "pork" consensus that appears from a Google search on the subject. If we want to get the true flavour of cannibalism, we need to find out from people who have actually tasted human flesh.
Of course, there is one form of human meat that's considered just about acceptable to eat. Many people choose to eat the placenta after childbirth, a practice known as "placentophagy". To prepare it, you need to remove the umbilical cord and membrane, and then treat it in a similar fashion to liver, which according to Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is roughly what the result tastes like. You can chop it up and fry it, or mince it to make quite a rich Bolognese. That's all very lovely, as you can see from the video below, but like the liver the placenta probably isn't that representative of the general taste of human flesh.
Watch a man cooking his wife's placenta. Or don't. Similarly unhelpful is the opinion of a cute little robot developed by NEC System technologies and Mie University. The "electromechanical sommelier", is "capable of identifying wines, cheeses, meats and hors d'oeuvres." On tasting the hands of human reporters, it identified one as bacon and another as prosciutto. We're homing in on pork again here, but unfortunately the reporters didn't bother to skin and cook their hands before placing them in the robot's jaws.
What we need are some proper cannibals, and where better to start than one of Germany's most infamous citizens, the cannibal Armin Meiwes. Having eaten an estimated 20kg of his victim, Meiwes is something of an expert on the subject, and in an interview from his prison cell he was more than happy to explain the taste "The flesh tastes like pork, a little bit more bitter, stronger. It tastes quite good."
Does his opinion tally with the experiences of other Western cannibals? After a bit more searching I found the case of William Buehler Seabrook, a journalist with the New York Times who traveled extensively in West Africa nearly a century ago. Fascinated with the concept of cannibalism, he persuaded a medical intern at the Sorbonne (the University of Paris) to give him a chunk of human meat from the body of a healthy man killed in an accident, which he cooked and ate, describing is as follows
"It was like good, fully developed veal, not young, but not yet beef. It was very definitely like that, and it was not like any other meat I had ever tasted. It was so nearly like good, fully developed veal that I think no person with a palate of ordinary, normal sensitiveness could distinguish it from veal. It was mild, good meat with no other sharply defined or highly characteristic taste such as for instance, goat, high game, and pork have."
So we have one for pork, one for veal. Clearly a sample size of two isn't enough - we need more people. And here's where we descend into the really grim part it turns out that many people may have eaten human flesh unintentionally.
I'll start with infamous Pole Karl Denke, "a devout, peaceful, generally respected citizen of Zibice" who "turned out to be a cannibal who killed 40 people before his arrest (and immediate suicide) in 1924. He pickled their flesh in jars and sold it on the Wrocaw market as 'pork'."
The same tactic was allegedly employed by Fritz Haarmann, a German who killed at least 24 people in Hanover, generally male prostitutes whose throats he bit while sodomising them (yes, I've been trying to work that one out too). Rumours suggest he too sold his victims as pork on the black market, before his execution by beheading in 1925.
Another German serial killer, Karl Grossman was arrested in 1921 having enthusiastically murdered his way through the Great War. Grossman (no relation) sold the meat from the estimated 50 women he killed on the black market, and even ran a hot dog stand where he offloaded the flesh, throwing the inedible remnants in a nearby river.
Ultimately, without actually eating some of the stuff ourselves, all we have are the subjective evaluations of a collection of murderers who may not be the most reliable of witnesses. But there is a certain consistency here - certainly the cannibals themselves seem to have generally considered it closer to pork, and indeed close enough that they were happy to label it as such when selling it to unfortunate members of the public through the meat markets and hot dog stands of 1920s Germany and Poland.
So unless somebody has any further evidence, the official opinion of this blog is that human flesh tastes a bit like pork. Of course, to paraphrase Eddie Izzard, that means that pork tastes of human. & tempt
O met many, mnay years ago, a missionary who had eaten human flesh and he said that the closest taste to it was pig, Which is not surrising, we both have the layer of subcutaneous fat, and are not hairy like other mamals.
Salaam
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Salaam Huruf,
Yes that's what I heard too, from my grandmother who had a suitor in her youth, who was one of the great explorers. He had been fed human flesh when visiting a tribe in Borneo. Said it was lucky he only found out after the meal what was the mean course because he had eaten with relish and had taken second helpings, it was that good. He had no doubt at the time that it was pork and some of the best he'd ever tasted. hypno -
This verse speaks about what is allowed during the restricted months. During these months hunting is not allowed, so they can only eat tamed animals without violating the restricted months rule. Apart from the restricted months, this verse applies
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. (6145)
You know what? I still can not get this pork thing. I am not sure what is the reason. But I do know that the Gospel did not emohasize it. It did emphasize eating meat offered to idols and blood.
The Koran used the term "rijz" for pork. But it also said that concerning the prophet's household
3333 And stay in your houses, and do not Tabarruj yourselves like the Tabarruj of the times of ignorance, and perform the Salah, and give Zakah and obey Allah and His Messenger. Allah wishes only to remove the Ar-Rijs from you, O members of the family, and to purify you with a thorough purification
811 (Remember) when He covered you with a slumber as a security from Him, and He caused water to descend on you from the sky, to clean you thereby and to remove from you the Rijz of Shaytan, and to strengthen your hearts, and make your feet firm thereby
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?And those who strive hard in invalidating Our signs,
challenging (us), for such will be a chastisement(Rijz) of a
painful wrathThe Arabic word /rijz/ originally means anxiety and the lack of power for the protection of equilibrium. So when a camel is sick and is unable to walk quickly, at the time of walking, it has to take its steps shortly in order to partly keep equilibrium. This state in Arabic is called /rijz/. Then it has been used for any kind of sin and impurity.
The epics, poems peculiar to wars, are called /rajaz/ for the sake that they have some pauses which are short and close to each other
http//www.maaref-foundation.com/english/library/quran/light/light_15/34/05.htmI am not able to figure it out. I mean millions and millions of people eat pork and I have not seen any problem with that. There must be something there. This is one of the issues I have not figured out at all.
It could be health reasons though as the Koran also forbade blood and dead animals.
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You know what? I still can not get this pork thing. I am not sure what is the reason. But I do know that the Gospel did not emohasize it. It did emphasize eating meat offered to idols and blood.
The Koran used the term "rijz" for pork. But it also said that concerning the prophet's household
No. It uses the word (khanzeer). (Rijz) is an adjective to things unaccepted by God.
God said to Adam and spouse Do not approach this tree. No reason was given. Like you, they did not see any reason why not to approach it.
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But the function of the pork that is being alluded is the eating, it is not to have it around, or to make purses from it or to use without mentioning God's name, it is to eat it. It is not an inmaterial quality that we are contending with. It is to eat it, not to touch it or take it for a stroll, or whatever, to eat it. Whatever rijs it has it concerns it as food.
Salaam
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How have I compared word to word?
Salam
You compared Do not approach this tree (prohibiting approachin the tree)
to Prohibited upon you....and pig flesh (prohibiting just the meat)
And ignored prohibition of one tree among all the trees of the forest/ paradise and flesh of one animal among all the other animals, birds and fish -
How have I ignored the prohition of a tree amongst the trees?
How have I compared both prohibitions?
And how is the prohibition of pig not referred to eating it? ?To what does it refer then?
What do we have to do with the tree forbidden to Adam?
What does the prohition of carrion have to do with the tree forbidden to Adam?
Salaam
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hadiths are not really required to assign any law of God system..
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The quesion is not ha pork is prohibited to eat because he Qur'an says so, but why des the Qur'an say so.
I is nnot to make things difficult since if we are unable to feed us otherwise it is allowed, bu it is a matter of diet just as dead animals is forbidden. There are reasons to forbid dead animals which are dietary, and that is also the case for pork. People usually do no die because of etig pork, but people usually do o die because of eating many things that are not pork and which anyway are not part of a healthy diet. There is no mistery in it. You may eat pork for a while and in he long run, if it is just for a while, nothing too bad will happen, but as diet for life it is what the Qur'an says by way of explanation rijs concerning the things prohibited, tha is, dead animmals, blood sprung forth and the meat of the pork.
his rijs is translated differrently according to the context. In te context of the things prohibited for food, it is clearly related o its toxicity.
It is indee?d impurity, but purity in qura'nic terms has nohinnng to do with a riualistic uderstanding, but with the quality of the things iself for the purpose in question.
Dead animals, blood and pork are not immpure to look at for instance or to bury or to go into the cycle of the soil, but they are impure to eat, that is, they bring into the body something that is not good for its purpose.
As to the details, I am sure there have been many threads in this very forum where all of them have been gone through. I personlly know that doctors forbid it much too often in he diet even in those socieies where diet is very pork oriented.
Salaam
Salaam
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Got this from the net
The very name of this foul animal contains an allusion to the prohibition of its flesh. In the Arabic language it is called ?khinzir,? which is a combination of ?khinz,? meaning ?very foul,? and ?ara,? meaning ?I see.? So the Arabic word for swine ? ?khinzir? ? means, ?I see it very foul.? In India the swine is known by the Hindu name ?su?ar,? which is pronounced like the English word ?sewer.?
The flesh of swine has been proven to be injurious, not only to man?s physical health, but to his moral and spiritual health as well. The swine eats filth and takes delight in living in dirty places. It has indecent habits and possesses the evil trait of sex-perversion. Tapeworms, scrofula, cancer and encysted trichina (i.e., trichinosis) are known to be prevalent among pork-eating people.
I personally have eaten pork and it does taste like meat that is going to or gone rotten. I had the unfortunate experience of severe food poisoning due to eating rotten meat - sometimes we eat left overs without knowing the meat inside has gone bad - in this instance it was beef.
My conclusion is dead animals/carrion are prohibited simply because the meat is rotten or bad for us. Similarly meat of khinzir are also rotten or bad for us - to me pork does taste bad - yuck!
But the prohibition is just from eating the meat and NOT touching goods made from pig skin - maybe touching bag from pig skin will make you wanting to eat pork???
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Peace all,
Khinzir actually means those animals with canine teeth and they are scavengers. These includes, the cat family, dog family and those animals that have canine teeth including pigs!
Do you know that pigs are also carnivorous and scavengers?
http//www.nydailynews.com/news/national/hungry-hogs-eat-oregon-farmer-article-1.1172448
peace
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Pigs, like dogs, like, human are omnnivorous, and if a human accidnetally falls into their manger, they eat it, even if the person belong to he family tha keeps he pig.
Pigs have many offspring of a go, whereas cows, sheep, goats, camels have only one or rarely two.and indeed they are vegetarians.
It cannot be said that it deseres i be part of a healthy diet, and yousee hat old people drop pork, pregnant women too, it is o much of a burden on the bodily functions.
Salaam
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the question should be like this...
why God create pig if its not useful in anyway.. eating riding ... etc?
actually the pigs are the filters of earth... its the only animal that have a system that digest the things which usually not get digested by anyoother means.. on other words the filters of cleanniess for the earth...
in old times people did not use toilets and when they leave pigs there pigs eat all that grababge and shit from there...
moreover why pig is haram.. becuase its the creation of dirt , the pig is the only animal that inivtes his mates to have sex with his partner.. due to the nature of its charactersitics...
pig even dnt care to have sex with the one who give birth to him?
a study of behaviour proved that when u eat a meat of something the characterstics of that animal may affect you.. in short or long term..
the grazing animals like, cow, goat, deer, camels are peaceful animals so no harm eating them and they dnt even consume blood and other animal meat... their nature is beautiful...
now question is this why dnt people eat tiger lions , wolfs, bear... ? quran did not make it haram, but there is a difference that they are not grazing animals...
if we look around us... everywhere.. the take ways , shops , apart from pig there is alwasy the meat which is used by every religion even who dnt beleive in quran.. like beef, lamb , chicken...fish
a pig is just a catagory should not be there becoz even in christianity and judism its not considered as a favorable thing to eat...
anyway scientifically its proven the pig meat can cause you lot of diseases... and some people tell the pigs are clean who raised in farms.. so they consume it...
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The reason the pig is not goodly for consumption is because its meat is very similar to that of man. The tissue has a high percentage of similarity and it would be near cannibalism to eat that. For us this meat is slow to digest and not very healthy compared to other meat. The animal does not graze and eats basically anything, even feces.
Quran says it is not goodly to eat it nor meat from animals which have died on their own. It does not say forbidden. It is clearly a recommendation. Haram means sanctified/blessed/goodly and an'ema (ا means "it is not" being a compound of and .
Modern day keeping of animals reduces the risks with consumption of pig meat and people could surely live to old age, but nevertheless the meat is indeed not very suited for humans. I do personally not eat it, but I also eat very reduced amounts of other red meats too.
This was the logic behind no pork.
Be well
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Quran says it is not goodly to eat it nor meat from animals which have died on their own.
It does not say forbidden. It is clearly a recommendation.
Haram means sanctified/blessed/goodly and an'ema (ا means "it is not" being a compound of and .
Salaam/Peace MoF,
"Haram/Harrama" means "forbidden,"
as we clearly see it here===================
33- Say My LORD has absolutely forbidden (=Arabic innama harrama)all lewd action, what is obvious from them and what is subtle,
and sin, aggression without cause,
your setting up partners with AL-LAH that were never authorized by HIM,
and saying about AL-LAH what you do not know.173- HE has absolutely forbidden (=Arabic innama harrama) for you
what is already dead,
the blood,
the meat of pig,
and what was dedicated to other than AL-LAH.But whoever finds himself/herself forced out of need and without disobedience or animosity,
(only in this case) there is no sin upon him/her. For AL-LAH is Forgiving, Merciful.QURAN TESTAMENT 7/33 = 2/173
Remain in peace/salaam.