By Adam Majewski
Halal, The Islamic word for that which is lawful or permitted. Dietary practices are a large part of the faith due to the obvious, food is needed to survive in this life time.
In Islam there is not much public information and public forums provided to those who are non-muslim. Especially in the west to inform any who are interested about the religious practice of Halal eating and drinking.
These resources are not very common else where out side the Muslim communities which only, for the most part at least provide them to those who are practicing muslims. Never the less this here is insight to those interested and wanting to read, some what of an introduction to Halal Food Laws.
These five starting points are just a beginning point and more will be provided as this two part article as it progresses. These are five of what I would say are some of the five most Haram items to eat and drink:
Consumption of blood: From a religious view, is believed that most of a persons soul is carried with in the blood and is in essences a person spiritually. A persons very being, including animals and so to consume blood is to consume the animals soul.
Eat an animal which has died before a person finds them. This animal has not been slaughtered in the Islamic way, in the name of Allah for our consumption to feed our physical state of being. This is Haram and she not be practiced at any time!
Zabihah, the Halal why to slaughter Animal for human consumption and the third section on the list that if not done is Haram. The importance of this way of slaughter, spiritually, is that we as Muslims are commanded to remember Allah(swt) in everything we do, this includes how we harvest meat for consumption.
When slaughtering by halal dietary law the person harvesting the animal must say Bismallahi Ramnir Rahim. The animal must also be laying down, by doing this it helps put the animal in a state of peace with Allah and their demise.
To rap up part one here, I am speaking on pork and alcohol both in the same section. In Islam why the command to not eat pork was made for the most part. At least the part we as people can understand was. According to what we believe at one point Jesus(may Peace and Blessings be upon him) was arguing with a few Jinn and after some time of arguing they finally asked him if they may go in to pigs as their punishment and he had granted this.
As for alcohol, all in all is an intoxicant, and has negative effects to a person on a spiritual and social level. Alcohol for the most part makes most people lose sight of the important things in their lives, such as learning, taking care of one's family, working and most of all Allah. Even though most people do have self control and don't drink a lot, by drinking even just one beer a night it says to other people who don't have control over their lives to drink, even if that is not what you are trying to say by drinking one beer.
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