by Dewan Golam Shafi Choudhury

Created on: March 07, 2009

Of course, many of the non-Muslims might have thought why Muslims abstain from eating pork. The reason being is that pork has been forbidden in Islam and this article is filled with detail as to why pork is forbidden.

We all know that food and drink has an effect on our health. So Islam has set limits to what food and drink we can have. The main food that Islam has told us about is to prevent eating pork due to hygiene conditions and to keep the soul purified.

Islam says that we can keep ourselves clean by doing our Salaat prayers as well as Zikr which is the remembrance of Allah and some other types of devotion. It also teaches us to get good deeds and how to prevent you from bad habits as a man has both of these types of habits.

There is a saying that a man becomes what he eats. So according to medical reports, pork is a harmful diet. Eating pork creates lowliness in character. I do not intend to be offensive to people who eat pork. This is only to reveal the reason why Islam forbids pork.

Eating something which hurts the body, hurts the soul as well because the life of a man depends what enters his body.

The food that we all eat does not just enter the stomach, intestines and become excreta. The body does actually absorb the food and it is taken everywhere in the body including the brain. If you don't drink water for a whole day, doesn't the head start aching? Yes it does because our brains need water and if you have a glass, you feel so much better, this is because the water is absorbed through the whole body. If the water was just to pass your stomach and go into the bladder, will your head not continue aching?

Let's read in detail about what a pig does in its life. It is naturally lazy and eats human excreta and anything else it finds. Its body is full of diseases and this is why it should not be consumed.

It is also said that pork has more fat than any other meat! This meat takes longer to digest. 16 kinds of harmful germs have been detected in pork.

People who suffer tapeworm disease have become the highest in pork eating nations. People who are affected by these diseases usually die or recover slowly. These were pork caters!

Doctors have said that no one is protected from these diseases and there is no cure. Medicines, antibiotics, drugs are useless to kill these deadly worms.

There is no guarantee that you will stay safe when you eat pork so its better off staying away from it.

So here you have the answer to why Islam forbids pork. But if a Muslim has nothing else to eat for a living, he can consume pork to save his life.

I hope you enjoyed this article. I am a Muslim and I enjoyed sharing this with you.

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