Question about muslims regarding eating meat?

Question

i know God has allowed muslims to eat the food of jewish and christians. but what does God meant by the word "food"?

is food = vegetables, fruites and meat?
OR
is food = only vegetables and fruites?

i am saying this because these verses in the Quran explains what the word "food" is:

[24] Then let man look at his food:
[25] We pour forth water in abundance.
[26] And We split the earth in clefts.
[27] And We cause therein the grain to grow,
[28] And grapes and clover plants (i.e. green fodder for the cattle),
[29] And olives and date-palms,
[30] And gardens dense with many trees,
[31] And fruits and herbage
Quran 80:24-31

all this are food comes from the ground, NOT MEAT? please explain.

Answer 1

i would say any of the clean animals (not pork) and any non poison plants as in your list.

olives were used as oil
grapes as wine
all fruits and herbs
grain for bread
also fish should be on that list
you can find a full list in deut.
pigs can spread disease from animals to man that normally could not be passed from one to another they are one of the main reasons we have the bird flu. we should not eat any animal that also eats fleash ( but i love my bacon and ham :-(

Answer 2

Mainly refers to meat. These days we can eat the food of Jewish people but not Christians because most Christians eat pork which is forbidden for Muslims. Jew also dont eat pork so it makes it easier. It does not refer to vegetables. Jewish slaughter of meat is somewhat similiar to the Muslims.. What is kosher to Jews is halal to Muslims. Therefore if a Muslim does not have halal food available, they can eat kosher food. However, the Christians dont normally used the kosher way. Since I myself adhere to the rule of halal meat if I am eating Mc Donalds, Burger King or KFC, I would not eat the meat, only vegetables. Seafood however is exempted. We can eat seafood anywhere. We are also asked to take precautions about any food mixed with pork or other meat. Like marshmellows they have pork gelatine. That is a no no for me. Twinkies has animal shortenings, something I avoid. But I dont mind eating food from the Kosher section. The rule of eating halal does say that if you dont have any choice you could eat the meat but no pork. In the US these days halal or kosher food is widely available so it makes more sense to adhere to the rule.

Answer 3

I am a Muslim, and we can eat any meat as long as it is not anything Pig related. That means no Pork,Pepperoni,or Bacon /ect. We are also forbidden to eat any shell fish. So back to your question food=vegetables,fruites, and certain meat.

Answer 4

you have totally miss out those verses..in which it's said
"eat from what we have granted u" n another place clearly it's been said,u r allowed to eat meat of cows ,goats etc(means herbivores only) but not of pig...
n scientifically anyone with a little medical common sense..knows that God has also created our teeth pattern n our digestive system to take both vegetables n meat as food...we have canines n grinding molars like carnivores,n we have incisors like herbivores..
so why not eat from what we are suppplied with???

Answer 5

Sal-am ..
Allah knows best ..
food here is meant the kind of food that is done in a certain way which characterize it as for special people .. IN this case (ahlu al kitab ) Jews and christian
for ax ample water is not processed in any way .. it is water ..
vegetable is simply universal way of eating it .. and we are talking about cuisine here.
when Allah is asking us to not to eat whatever the name of Allah is not mentioned upon it .. it says for what is being slaughters ed ..
and that what specifies the kind of food // is the food that results from slaughtering ,,
any living thing that requires slaughtering ..

www.hizb-ut-tahrir.org
www.hizb-ut-tahrir.info

Answer 6

Meat is good. The Chinese do an exceptionally well job with their chicken and rice.

Answer 7

goodness i am not a musl;im but it sounds so interesting. you are such a smarty. you will get very vey rich. you are cute, soooomg. that is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo... cuteee!ty