Why is pork haram?

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'Why Muslims don't eat Pork?.' Here's an articled I found Online that has plenty information on the Pigs' meat. "Here are some facts on pork that proves it to be a very unhealthy food to eat: A pig is a real garbage gut. It will eat anything including urine, excrement, dirt, decaying animal flesh, maggots, or decaying vegetables. They will even eat the cancerous growths off other pigs or animals. The meat and fat of a pig absorbs toxins like a sponge. Their meat can be 30 times more toxic than beef or venison. When eating beef or venison, it takes 8 to 9 hours to digest the meat so what little toxins are in the meat is slowly put into our system and can be filtered by the liver. But when pork is eaten, it takes only 4 hours to digest the meat. We thus get a much higher level of toxins within a shorter time. Unlike other mammals, a pig does not sweat or perspire. Perspiration is a means by which toxins are removed from the body. Since a pig does not sweat, the toxins remain within its body and in the meat. Pigs and swine are so poisonous that you can hardly kill them with strychnine or other poisons. Farmers will often pen up pigs within a rattlesnake nest because the pigs will eat the snakes, and if bitten they will not be harmed by the venom. When a pig is butchered, worms and insects take to its flesh sooner and faster than to other animal's flesh. In a few days the swine flesh is full of worms. Swine and pigs have over a dozen parasites within them, such as tapeworms, flukes, worms, and trichinae. There is no safe temperature at which pork can be cooked to ensure that all these parasites, their cysts,and eggs will be killed. Pig meat has twice as much fat as beef. A 3 oz T bone steak contains 8.5 grams of fat; a 3 oz pork chop contains 18 grams of fat. A 3 oz beef rib has 11.1oz of fat; a 3 oz pork spare rib has 23.2 grams of fat. Cows have a complex digestive system, having four stomachs. It thus takes over 24 hours to digest their vegetarian diet causing its food to be purified of toxins. In contrast, the swine's one stomach takes only about 4 hours to digest its foul diet, turning its toxic food into flesh. The swine carries about 30 diseases which can be easily passed to humans. This is why God commanded that we are not even to touch their carcase (Leviticus 11:8). The trichinae worm of the swine is microscopically small, and once ingested can lodge itself in our intestines, muscles, spinal cord or the brain. This results in the disease trichinosis. The symptoms are sometimes lacking, but when present they are mistaken for other diseases, such as typhoid, arthritis, rheumatism, gastritis, MS, meningitis, gall bladder trouble, or acute alcoholism. The pig is so poisonous and filthy, that nature had to prepare him a sewer line or canal running down each leg with an outlet in the bottom of the foot. Out of this hole oozes pus and filth his body cannot pass into its system fast enough. Some of this pus gets into the meat of the pig."
I hope that helped :SMILY149:

Wasslamualykum
 

IslamIsLight

Islam is my life
Staff member
As we trust Allah,we should trust in what he told us in the Quran.

As i know pig eats all dirty food,everything,even the dead staff,how can u eat pig,if its full of junk,sorry
and it was proved by the doctors,that it has a bad affect on the liver,because it has too much fat.Its not good for your health..
but only the fact that its pig and how dirty it is makes me feel sick...
 

Raed

Muslim Student
I read a book about blood types in human and food....
for every blood type there is Medecine food, neutral food and poison food...
Its not written by a muslim...
Well i conclude from it thats pork always in poison list for all blood types..
waslam
 

Globalpeace

Banned
Asslamo Allaikum Brother,

Very good point & true indeed. Scientific reasons are mentioned in my first reply.

I read a book about blood types in human and food....
for every blood type there is Medecine food, neutral food and poison food...
Its not written by a muslim...
Well i conclude from it thats pork always in poison list for all blood types..
waslam
 

masihuddin

Junior Member
When Allah the all wise and all knowing prohibits something it is good enough for me without going into scientific reasons
 

nyerekareem

abdur-rahman
from my courses that i took a few years ago, the reason for the pig being haram was:

pigs are carnivores and also predators. they can kill an animal with their teeth and eat that animal. we all know that we do not eat birds of prey due to their use of their claws. we don't eat lions, tigers etc because they hunt to eat and have fangs. so do pigs. pigs if left unfed by man they will violently kill like the other carnivorous animals. cows and chickens don't hunt or have the potential to hunt, that's why their halal. fish are given the exception because of the environment in which they live.

Also because pigs wallow in mire frequently, thus making it very difficult for it to be thorougly clean and also defiles the muslim, which is a person that holds hygene to very high standards.

but i say the best answer is because ALLAH SWT said not to eat it!!! Who knows the mind and logic of ALLAH AZZA WA JAL? let's just obey Him.
 
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