Dangerous Life Style!!
Pork and Other Haram Meats
 Look around and you will see that planet of earth is
full of Allah’s bounties and Allah made it all available
to our consumption. Allah blessed with many of his
gifts and favors. Food and drinks are among the most
important favors of Allah.
 Allah says,
 See you not (O men) that Allah has subjected for you
whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in the
earth, and has completed and perfected His Graces
upon you, and He bestowed upon you His seen and
unseen favors.
‫ض َح َل اًل َط ِّيباا َو ًَل َت َّت ِبعُوا‬
ِ ‫َيا أَ ُّي َها ال َّناسُ ُكلُوا ِممَّا فِي أاْلَرأ‬
ُ ‫ُخ‬
َ ‫ت ال َّشي‬
‫ان ۚ إِ َّن ُه لَ ُك أم َع ُد ٌّو م ُِبين‬
ِ ‫ط َوا‬
ِ ‫أط‬
 O mankind! Eat of that which is lawful and good on
the earth, and follow not the footsteps of Shaitân
(Satan). Verily, he is to you an open enemy:
 By the mercy of Allah and His kindness towards us,
Allah has permitted us to eat all good things, and he
has not forbidden anything but those impure and
unhealthy.
 Allah prevented us from eating certain kind of meats
and harmful meats and consumption like pork, meats
of predator and dead animals.
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 He says concerning the mission of the Prophet,
َّ ‫َو ُي ِح ُّل لَ ُه ُم‬
َ ‫ت َوي َُحرِّ ُم َعلَي ِأه ُم أال َخ َبا ِئ‬

‫ث‬
ِ ‫الط ِّي َبا‬
 “He will make lawful for them all good things and
prohibit for them what is unhealthy and
unwholesome,”
 Food and drinks have a direct effect on our health.
That is why Islam has prescribed regulations about
what we put inside our bodies.
 Allah wants His believers to be in the best health both
physically, psychologically and spiritually.
 When Muslims are healthy, a healthy Muslim society
can be easily established.
 Allah has forbidden eating the meats of pigs, wild
animals and birds and flesh of dead animals.
 Muslims show their obedience to Allah by abstaining
from pork and other Haram meats and food. Allah even
prohibited overeating and all kinds of Israaf or wastage.
 This obedience brings them the blessing of Allah and
helps them maintain a healthy and happy Muslim
society.
Allah Prohibits Pork and other
Unhealthy Meats
 Allah prohibits the consumption of pork in less than 4
different places in the Qur’an. Allah orders us in the
Qur’an not to consume the flesh of swine and dead
animals.
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‫أ‬
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‫حُرِّ َم أ‬
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‫حأ‬
‫أ‬
‫َّللا ِب ِه‬
‫ز‬
‫ن‬
‫خ‬
‫ال‬
‫م‬
‫ل‬
‫و‬
‫م‬
‫د‬
‫ال‬
‫و‬
‫ة‬
‫ت‬
‫ي‬
‫م‬
‫ال‬
‫ت َع َل أي ُك ُم‬
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ِ َّ ‫ير َو َما أ ُ ِه َّل لِ َغي ِأر‬
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َ ُ‫َو أال ُم أن َخ ِن َق ُة َو أال َم أوق‬
‫يح ُة َو َما أَ َك َل ال َّس ُب ُع إِ ًَّل َما‬
َ ‫وذةُ َو أال ُم َت َر ِّد َي ُة َوال َّن ِط‬
‫ب َوأَنأ َتسأ َت أق ِسمُوا ِب أاْلَ أز ًَل ِم ۚ َذلِ ُك أم فِسأ ق‬
ُ ‫َذ َّك أي ُت أم َو َما ُذ ِب َح َع َلى ال ُّن‬
ِ ‫ص‬
ۗ
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Forbidden to you (for food) are: Al-Maitah (the
dead animals - cattle has been slaughtered as a
sacrifice for others than Allah, or has been slaughtered
for idols) and that which has been killed by strangling,
or by a violent blow, or by a headlong fall, or by the
goring of horns - and that which has been (partly)
eaten by a wild animal - unless you are able to
slaughter it (before its death) - and that which is
sacrificed (slaughtered) on An-Nusub (stone-altars).
(Forbidden) also is to use arrows seeking luck or
decision; (all) that is Fisqun (disobedience of Allâh
and sin).
 Allah describe the mention meats in above verses as
filthy. Therefore, these meats are unfit for human
consumption and we must stay away from it.
 It should be noted that all pork products are
prohibited and not only the meat. Lard, which is the
pig’s fat is prohibited too.
 It is unfortunate that food factories use it in processing
many kind of foods, sweets and even hygiene products
like soap and tooth paste.
 Muslim should try their best to avoid all foods that
include all pork products.
The following meats are described by Allah and the
Prophet as unlawful meats:
1. Pork products (pork, ham, bacon, and lard)
2. Wild animals that feed on other animals (lions,
tigers, wolves, hyenas etc)
3. Dead animals, including those die because of
accidents like falling, or being suffocated, hit or
preyed on by a wild animal.
4. Dogs
5. Donkeys and mules
6. Mice and rats
7. Worms and insects except locust.
Harmful Effects of Eating Pork,
Blood and Dead animals
 When you go to food store you always see beef, lamb,
chicken, fish and seafood. You will not see dog, cat,
and donkey or mule meats because almost all people
believe it is prohibited or find it disgusting. Many
people especially Christians like pig to eat it.
 However, in Islam pork products are strictly prohibited
and considered Haram. It is a major sin for a Muslim to
eat pork or any pork products.
 The main reason for this is because Allah prohibits this
particular meat in the Qur’an. Prophet Muhammad
also ordered Muslims not to eat pigs, meat or fat nor
sell it to others.
 Medical experts have recently discovered the harms of
pork meat and research shows that eating pork can
cause many healthy risks. Pig’s bodies contain many
toxins, worms and latent disease.
 Eating pork can cause no less than seventy different
types of diseases. A person can have various
Helminthes, like roundworm, pinworm, hookworm,
etc.
 One of the most dangerous is Taenia Solium,
which is also called tapeworm. It stays in the
intestine and is very long. Its eggs enter the blood
stream and can reach almost all the organs of the
body.
 If it enters the brain it can cause memory loss. If it
enters the heart it can cause heart attack and if
enters the liver it can cause liver damage. If it
enters the eyes it can cause blindness.
 The meat of dead animals and other prohibited
meats are dangerous and completely unhealthy to
consume. That why Allah made them prohibited.
 Allah prohibited eating blood. There are people in
certain parts of the world who consume blood in their
food. While they see that as sensible. Muslims believe
it is unlawful food. However, Prophet Muhammad
explained that blood is Haram except the spleen and
liver of the lawful animal.
‫ عن عبدَّللا بن عمر رضي َّللا قال قال رسول َّللا صلي َّللا عليه و سلم‬
‫ و أما الدمان فالكبد‬,‫ فأما الميتتان فالحوت والجراد‬,‫أحلت لنا ميتتان ودمان‬
.‫والطحال‬
 Abdullah Ibn Omar narrated that Rasoolullah said:
Two kinds of dead animals and two types of blood
were made lawful to us; the two dead animals are fish
and locust and the two bloods are liver and spleen.
 Faith In Action
 Always avoid eating pork and its products like
bacon, ham and lard.
 Always be careful to check the sweets and other
food ingredients before you eat it. Lard, which is
pig’s fat, is commonly used in many deli, sweets
and other types of food.
IS Pork Forbidden To Muslims
Only?
 Islam is not the only religion in which pork is
prohibited but other religions teach the same rule also.
For example; Judaism, pork consumption is forbidden.
 The Jews believe in Old Testament. It is clearly stated:
“and the swine, though he divided the hoot, and be
clovenfooted, yet he cheweth not the cud; he is
unclean to you. Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and
their carcass shall ye not touch; they are unclean t o
you.”
 Also, “It is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their
flesh, nor touch their dead carcass.”
 Many Christian believe that this verse was directed
only at the Jews. But Jesus himself says during the
Sermon on the Mount; “Think not that I have come to
destroy the law, or the Prophets: I am not come to
destroy , but to fulfill.”
 Many Far Eastern traditions also discourage the eating
of pork. The 3,000 year old Confucian Book of Rites
says,
 “A gentleman does not eat the flesh of pigs and dogs.”
 Although many Chinese are avid eaters of pork today,
physicians of ancient China recognized pork-eating as
the root of many human ailments.
 Buddhists, Jains and Hindus usually avoid eating any
kind of meat.
Kindness to Animals
 It must also be remembered that just because eating
pigs meats is haram that does not mean we should
hate pigs. There are many animals that we can’t eat like
cats, dogs, eagles, lions, cheetahs and tigers to
mention a few. Does that mean we should hate or hurt
them. They are Allah’s creations, and we should always
show kindness to all animals except in case of self
defense.
 Every creature was created by Allah for a purpose. The
Prophet always encouraged us to be kind to animals.
Conclusion
 Even we did not know about the harmful effect of eating
pork and other unlawful foods, this would not change our
belief that it is haram at all. We must follow Allah’s order
even if we could not understand fully the wisdom behind
it.
 When Prophet Adam was expelled from the garden, it was
because he hate fro the forbidden tree. We do not know
anything about that tree, and Adam did not need to ask
why he was forbidden to eat from it. Rather it was sufficient
for him, as it is sufficient for us and for every believer, to
know that Allah has forbidden it.
 It is not required of the believer to always find a
scientific justification for the prohibition.
 However, if they and find it, they must share the
information, that will increase people’s faith. We
believe that all Qur’an’s statements are true, and if
science has not confirmed some of them yet, it will do
so in the future,
Study Questions
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Write an essay about the medical harms of pork.
What is more harmful to society, addiction to alcohol or
eating much pork?
In Islam, Muslim wine drinkers get punished but not
pork eaters. Why?
What are the main kinds of meat that Allah made
unlawful to eat?
Why did Allah Prohibit certain types of meats?
What dead animals that we are allowed to eat ? Support
your answer with evidence from Al-Qur’an or Sunnah.
7. What other religions say about pork? Support your
answer with a quotation from their holy books.
8. Describe some of the medical harms of eating pork.
9. Can a Muslim sell pork products and other harm
food as long as he or she does not eat it? Support
your answer with a Hadeeth.