WHY PORK IS BANNED IN ISLAM?

This is just a brief survey dealing mainly with the reasons why Islam forbid pork; and the deep philosophy behind it, in a religious and somehow a scientific style. I hope it will be useful and interesting, especially in these days which witness the harsh and quick widespread of swine flu (H1N1).

Question. What is the teaching of Islam about pork?
Answer: Pork is absolutely unhealthy, its flesh is also strictly prohibited for consumption. Allah said in different places of the Holy Qour'ân "You are not the beast dead, blood, flesh of swine ..." (Surah 5, v. 4)

Q. - As a Christian, I have no trouble eating pork. I often wonder why my Muslim brothers do not have been allowed to taste the delicious food, as we Christians do.
A. - This question is somewhat surprising because, according to the Scriptures, even Christians are not allowed to eat pork!

Q. How can you say that?
A. - Well look what the Bible says about pork, "You shall not eat of their flesh, and you do not touch their dead bodies; you look unclean." (Leviticus ir, 7-8). The same command is echoed by Deuteronomy (XIV, 8). Reverend WK Lowther Clarke said in his "Concise Commentary of the Bible" ( "Concise Bible Commentary" fub. SPCK, 1952), commenting on these passages: "The laws were inculcated and obeyed because they embodied the divine will" (p. 871). Dr. EA Widmer cites in his article Pork, Man and Disease, "which follows:" The pig, although one of the most common foods, is one of the most damaging. God had forbidden to the Hebrews to eat pork, not just to assert its authority, but because it was not a healthy food for humans. "

Q. - Well! these revelations are very interesting. Can you please give these issues more references to Christian scriptures?
A. - Yes, you can see the commentary on the word "pig" in "The Westminster Dictionary of the Bible" and is very clear. Here is an excerpt "The pig was an unclean animal officially ... It is dirty, it does not refuse to eat offal and carrion, and consumption of meat in some hot countries is supposed to cause skin diseases. The Arabs did not practice his farm and was considered unclean by the Phoenicians, Ethiopians and Egyptians ... For Jews, the pork was abominable, the pig was the emblem of the dirt and rudeness. However, the pig was introduced in the idolatrous feasts of degenerate Jews (Isaiah 65, 4-66, 17). During the reign of Antiochus Epiphanius, a Jew in order to offer or taste of the pork was a method used to determine its fidelity to the religion of their fathers or to determine whether it was prepared to accept the worship introduced by its conquerors. But many Jews affected manners and Jean Greek Hyrcan found wise to publish an edict that no guard pig. "At the time of Christ, a large herd of pigs was in the Decapolis (Mark V ,11-1 3), a region colonized by the Greeks where the pork was highly esteemed as food. There is no reason to suppose that Jews owned the pigs or are those nouns that the prodigal son in a distant country (Luke 15, 15) "(p. 584-585). Similar presentations can be found in almost all Bible dictionaries .

WHY THE PORK IS FORBIDDEN IN ISLAM?

In fact, not only the Koran prohibits the consumption of pork but the Bible also prohibited. In Leviticus, chapter 11, verse 7-8, ..... it says:

"You do not eat pork, ... You shall not eat of their flesh, and you do not touch their dead bodies: you look unclean."

Furthermore, did you know that pigs can not be slaughtered simply because he has no neck ?..... This is a physical characteristic natural pork, have no neck.

Muslims say that if God had wanted you to eat pork, he would have given a neck that can kill.

The consumption of pork is bad for health, whatever the product: pork chops, ham, bacon, etc..

Uric acid is a substance harmful to the human body.

Well it is important to note that the body of the pig does not get rid of that 2% of uric acid, the remaining 98% forming the body.

This explains the high percentage of rheumatic found in those who consume pork.

Further Reading on Islam

What is Islam and who is a Muslim?