Understanding the food laws (pronouncing God's name). *Need an answer urgently*
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Glorytothegracious,
We shall not eat bad foods or spoilt foods for if we eat we fall to sickness. The Curer is the One who cures you, though there are self-claimed 'curlers, healers, doctors, specialists etc'. All these words are associations to "The Curer, The Healer, The Speacialisr or The Best". All the Best Names on earth are those what man attributes to himself, while they belong only to Allah. Thus there are many many Names of Allah, attributed to men very plainly such as King, Governor and so on without a prefix 'servant of The King, servant of The Governor, servant of The Honorable, servant of His Highness. Thus if our fear is that we shall not associate partners to Allah with reference to All His Beatiful Names, never qualify and call a man with the best of adjectives, or in other words, equate not these filthy people to His Highness, the Majesty of Allah.
We fall sick after eating bad foods or spoilt foods; after the sickness has set in, it is only The Curer cures removing the evil of the foods. Allah says while I, The Purifier make the foods pure for you, and make them Lawful to you to eat thereof, and why do you not invoke My Names O the Curer, O the Purifier, O the Lawful, O the Forgiver, O the Provider, O the Relenting, O the Knower, O the Truthful. What made you believe the organic or halal shop owners, while I am the Trustworthy, The Mumin.
Allah says nothing shall prevent you from eating before touching every food on your platter while remembering of My Names suitably invoking it where necessary and eat while you fear Me alone without fearing the food or worrying about the source from where they came. Because to do so is sin before Allah. If a food refuses to agree with your digestion, your call is upon O the Rectifier.
What has been made as unlawful foods are clearly prescribed thus the dead, the pouring blood, the meat of swine and those foods upon which other than Allah's Names are pronounced. A day to day example for this is we thank and wish each other for providing food at home feast or a feast hosted in restaurants without giving Thanks to Him, The Most Appreciative and without seeking His Forgiveness and His Mercy for our entire future to come.
Finally to invoke the Names of Allah, remember this. In all your needs are His Names. And remember not to grope for Allah' names.
Salam
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Beautiful post drfazl.
I like chanting mantras 24/7 in my head.
Breathe in, bismillah
breathe out, alhamdulillah
Right foot forward, bismillah
Left foot forward, alhamdullilahThis particularly opens your awareness to God's guiding of your footsteps. It is pronounced in particular when you are on the road and in danger of death from heavy vehicles. To reach each red light knowing Bismillah and to pass each light knowing Alhamdullilah!
Samad and Ahad... Hayy and Haqq, the names come in beautiful pairs!
112 - Al-Ikhlas (Sincerity)
Sahih International Allah , the Eternal Refuge.Pickthall Allah, the eternally Besought of all!
Yusuf Ali Allah, the Eternal, Absolute;
Shakir Allah is He on Whom all depend.
Muhammad Sarwar God is Absolute.
Mohsin Khan "Allah-us-Samad (The Self-Sufficient Master, Whom all creatures need, He neither eats nor drinks).
Arberry God, the Everlasting Refuge,
The word Samadhi implies total dissolution into the Self-Sufficient Master who needs not to breathe nor eat nor drink. Samadhi is known as the breathless state, aptly named for one does not need to breathe in this state but merely direct the oxygen already inside the body through where it needs to go.
Samadhi implies Samad-like. It seems that the Arabs and the Hindus share this word from God knows where. So for God to name himself Samad is very interesting, for God to create a state of being of the body. Samadhi is the correct natural state/fitrah of the human body. Abiding in Samadhi (total one pointed absorption), the body does nothing but that which is in accordance with the Tao, the Sunatullah, The Way of Allah As-Samad Al-Ahad The One Clear Light which bestows light to all existence.
Ahad, Samad, breath in, breathe out. 24/7.
Power level <9000
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I remember when I was in Saudi Arabia, my aunt sent me out to get a chicken. So I went to the local butcher shop. I picked out my chicken. He grabbed it, continued laughing and having a conversation with his coworker, and cut it's head off. I heard no utterances about God. People assume in a country like Saudi Arabia, everything would be "halal". Not true. I prefer praying Fatiha over my food before I eat, expressing and acknowledging my gratitude to God, for providing another meal and I'm ok with that. May God forgive me if I'm wrong but I feel intention is the real purpose, not the technicalities of the ritual.
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I remember when I was in Saudi Arabia, my aunt sent me out to get a chicken. So I went to the local butcher shop. I picked out my chicken. He grabbed it, continued laughing and having a conversation with his coworker, and cut it's head off. I heard no utterances about God. People assume in a country like Saudi Arabia, everything would be "halal". Not true. I prefer praying Fatiha over my food before I eat, expressing and acknowledging my gratitude to God, for providing another meal and I'm ok with that. May God forgive me if I'm wrong but I feel intention is the real purpose, not the technicalities of the ritual.
Salaam,
Red Do you mean, you recite sura fatiha on food before you eat? hmm
I agree with what you said about Saudi Arabia, I have seen myself butcher cutting chicken while saying bad words to his friend. So, I stopped taking food from them, I do cut them with my own hands when I go to their shop.
May Allah bless you pr
mmKhan -
Salaam,
Red Do you mean, you recite sura fatiha on food before you eat? hmm
I agree with what you said about Saudi Arabia, I have seen myself butcher cutting chicken while saying bad words to his friend. So, I stopped taking food from them, I do cut them with my own hands when I go to their shop.
May Allah bless you pr
mmKhanWaleikum As Salaam brother,
Yes. I meant recite Surah Fatiha. Slaughtering it yourself is the best way of all if you can. Where I live, in the United States, there are too many legal and logistic issues to do that easily. -
A couple posters have mentioned eating organic and the like as they feel like it fits the spirit of what Allah wants. I read a blog article making a similar argument, I thought I would share it
http//www.hijabman.com/journal/halal-zabihah-organic-eat-local/
As for what exactly 'halal' means and never being able to be 100% sure about the meat I've basically given up on the idea of eating meat at all. It kind of depresses me but I want to do my best so that's the direction I have moved. I still plan on eating all seafood, eggs, and diary. So far I have stopped eating cow for the most part. I also try to eat organic and cruelty free when I can.