Why is it forbiden for a mulim or jew to eat pork but in biblical times they kept pigs?

Question

Given that the faith of Muslim and Chritian spring from Judaism St paul freed us from the prohibition but why do the others still hold to it and keep pigs. What are the pigs used for?

Answer 1

Wa`alaykum as-salamu wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.

In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.

All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.

Dear brother in Islam, thank you for your question which reflects your care to have a clear view of the teachings of Islam. Allah commands Muslims to refer to people of knowledge to learn more about the teachings of Islam.

Allah permits us to consume animals slaughtered by Jews and Christians. There is only one condition, that is, the animal must be properly slaughtered. So we cannot consume the meat of any animal that is not allowed in the first place (such as pork) or one that has not been slaughtered by slitting its jugular vein.

In his response to your question, Sheikh Muhammad Al-Mukhtar Ash-Shinqiti, Director of the Islamic Center of South Plains, Lubbock, Texas, states the following:

One sentence is not enough to answer such a complex question. For example, I myself used to eat meat when I first came to the United States, but then I stopped eating beef for 3 years. Only after conducting research and several field studies, I feel confident that meat in the US is halal as long as you mention the name of Allah before eating it. There are three basic conditions that make meat halal as follows:

1. That the name of Allah is mentioned over the animal. This can be done after it is slaughtered.

2. That the method of slaughter causes the blood to be drained. Animals are slaughtered using this method in America.

3. That the animals are slaughtered in a merciful way. I believe that the methods used in the United States to slaughter animals are more merciful to animals than those used in many Muslim countries.



Moreover, the US Congress issued a law called The Humane Slaughter of Animals Act. The law requires that specific methods that cause less pain to the animal be used for slaughtering. As for the claims by some scholars that a lot of these animals die as a result of being stunned before having their jugular vein slit,I conducted research on this subject and found that these claims are baseless.This is so because the reports by the general inspector of the US Government confirmed that a lot of animals do not get affected by the stunning so when they are slaughtered, they still experience pain.

Muslim scholars who forbid the consumption of beef based their argument on the assumption that stunning kills the animal before their jugular vein is slit. This is not true according to the report released by the general inspector.

Therefore, I believe animals slaughtered in the United States are halal to consume as long as you say the name of Allah before eating the meat.

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Answer 2

I'm not religious and am quite partial to an odd sausage now and then, but try this experiment.. buy some pork medallions or the like from Iceland or somewhere heinous and let it sit in the sun in its packing for a few hours ..and then pour cola over it .. wee nematodes or some such beasties come crawling out, the eggs of which were in the pork to begin with. I'm not against eating worms (the aborigines do) but umm its a bit yucky ..

Answer 3

There are two aspects to this question.
1) Says that the wild pig (boar) was a totem animal of the tribes (much in the way that the Boar is the sacred animal of the Celts and the Danes and used to depict valour and bravery). It couldn't be eaten as it was taboo (a word that means 'put aside as beyond reach'), though it MAY have been used in divination.

2) That it became viewed as 'unclean' or rather, 'unfit' for human consumption because it was so sacred.

Either way pigs could be kept, but not eaten by us mere mortals.

Answer 4

Truffle Hunting

Answer 5

Food laws - Jewish and Islamic food laws make loads of sense if you live a nomadic life style without fridges and freezers. Same as shell fish, why eat animals that eat waste and filth?

Answer 6

Eating slop I guess. Interesting point, maybe they did labor tasks i guess. Interesting point. It is funny how two groups who are so closely related hate each other so much.

Answer 7

because aparrently they are dirty animals, but in fact they arent!!!!

The question is why can they say I dont eat pork because it is wrong but if you tell a muslim or jew that you are a vegetarian they go ape and tell you that you are stupid???

Answer 8

the bible is all lies!
the wasted guys sat around their campfire making it up forgot about that little detail.

Answer 9

Probably spell better lol

Answer 10

to remind them of the forbidden fruit...in this case, an animal.