Does anyone know why Muslims dont eat pork?

Answer 1

The legal strictures which forbid both Muslims and Jews from eating pork actually came from the social situation of the Ancient Near East. Many hogs and swine were feral animals which did tremendous damage to farms and areas for grazing. They were actual predators. Often the Jews and the Muslims which buried their dead in graves found that the animals had uprooted the tombs and had eaten the corpses.This was a terrible desecration of the bodies and made the animals unfit for contact with humans. The codes reflected in the Sacred Writing of Israel and Islam were based on the contact the animals had with the dead bodies. Later when Christians moved into a society where other forms of burial were common the need for the avoidance of contact with pigs was for the most part removed. You can find explanations for many of these practices in rabbinical writings and commentaries that present them in their original context.

Answer 2

Bob: Tell me why is it that a Muslim is very particular about the words
Halaal and Haraam; what do they mean?

Yunus: That which is permissible is termed Halaal and that which is not
permissible is termed Haraam and it is the Quran which draws the
distinction between the two.

Bob: Can you give me an example?

Yunus: Yes, Islam has prohibited blood of any type. You will agree that
a chemical analysis of blood shows that it contains an abundance of
uric acid, a chemical substance which can be injurious to human health.

Bob: You're right about the toxic nature of uric acid, in the human
being it is excreted as a waste product and in fact we are told that
98% of the body's uric acid is extracted from the blood by the kidneys
and removed through urination.

Yunus: Now I think that you'll appreciate the special prescribed method
of animal slaughter in Islam.

Bob: What do you mean?

Yunus: You see, the wielder of the knife, whilst taking the name of the
'Almighty', makes an incision through the jugular veins, leaving all
other veins and organs intact.

Bob: I see, this causes the death of the animal by a total loss of blood
from the body, rather than an injury to any vital organ.

Yunus: Yes, were the organs, example the heart, the liver, or the brain
crippled or damaged, the animal could die immediately and its blood
would congeal in its veins and would eventually permeate the flesh.
This implies that the animal flesh would be permeated and contaminated
with uric acid and therefore very poisonous; only today did our
dieticians realize such a thing.

Bob: Again, while on the topic of food; Why do Muslims condemn the
eating of pork or ham or any foods related to pigs or swine

Yunus: Actually, apart from the Quran prohibiting the consumption of
pork, bacon (pig flesh); in fact the Bible too in Leviticus chapter
11,verse 8, regarding swine it says, "of their flesh (of the swine,
another name for pig) shall you not eat, and of their carcass you shall
not touch; they are unclean to you." Further, did you know that a pig
cannot be slaughtered at the neck for it does not have a neck; that is
according to its natural anatomy. A Muslim reasons that if the pig was
to be slaughtered and fit for human consumption the Creator would have
provided it with a neck.Nonetheless, all that aside, I am sure you are
well informed about the harmful effects of the consumption of pork, in
any form, be it pork chops, ham,bacon.

Bob: The medical science finds that there is a risk for various diseases
the pig is found to be a host for many parasites and potential
diseases.

Yunus: Yes, even apart from that, as we talked about uric acid content
in the blood, it is important to note that the pig 's biochemistry
excretes only 2% of its total uric acid content, the remaining 98%
remains as an integral part of the body.

Answer 3

Pigs are scavengers who eat a lot of garbage and sometimes their own feces. They are also animals who show various sexual perversions. These are some of the obvious or logical reasons for them being not allowed.

Basically Islam is the continuation of Judaism in many of its laws, which includes the ban on eating pork.

Answer 4

Given the cooking technology of 7th century Arabs, trichinosis, and the fact that a pig will eat just about anything and it will turn into flesh within 4 hours, safety comes to mind. This is why I think all of these dietary injunctions are outdated, regardless of the veracity of the religions in that part of the world.

Answer 5

005.060 Say: "Shall I point out to you something much worse than this, (as judged) by the treatment it received from God? Those who incurred the curse of God and His wrath, those of whom some He transformed into apes and swine, those who worshipped evil;- these are (many times) worse in rank, and far more astray from the even Path!" (QURAN E KAREEM)

Muslim also don't eat dog and cat and all haram things not only pork.

Answer 6

I'm not a Muslim, but, they do not eat pork for the same reason I don't eat pork, it's a filthy animal.

Leviticus 11:7  And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be clovenfooted, yet he cheweth not the cud; he is unclean to you.
8  Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye not touch; they are unclean to you.

GOD bless

Answer 7

Sister, pig meat is amongst the "types" and "conditions" of meats that Muslims have been forbidden to eat. As Allah (swt) says to Believers in the Qur'an:

In the Name of God, The Beneficent, The Merciful

Forbidden to you (for food) are: dead meat, blood, the flesh of swine, and that on which hath been invoked the name of other than Allah. that which hath been killed by strangling, or by a violent blow, or by a headlong fall, or by being gored to death; that which hath been (partly) eaten by a wild animal; unless ye are able to slaughter it (in due form); that which is sacrificed on stone (altars); (forbidden) also is the division (of meat) by raffling with arrows: that is impiety. This day have those who reject faith given up all hope of your religion: yet fear them not but fear Me. This day have I perfected your religion for you, completed My favour upon you, and have chosen for you Islam as your religion. But if any is forced by hunger, with no inclination to transgression, Allah is indeed Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful.

-Qur'an [5:3]

Answer 8

Because the old Testament of the Bible does not allow for eating unclean meats. "IE" Shellfish, Pigs, et cetera.

Answer 9

Dietary laws had some relevance in the bronze age, they are utterly irrelevant now. Just like their cult...

Answer 10

They practice a dietary law that is given to them in the Koran.