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Alcohol and Pork
Written by Mufti Afzal Hoosen Elias
Alcohol
Consumption of alcohol is not permissible in Islaam irrespective of whether it is just a social drink or more. Firstly let us look at the physical disadvantages of alcohol. It causes inflammation of the digestive system, ulcers, loss of appetite, energy loss, mental inefficiency, sexual impotency, convulsions, hallucinations, melancholy, suicide, loss of memory, slurred speech, delusions, blindness, throat and liver disease, dullness, dizziness, anxiety and hangovers. These are only the harms to the body and mind. As a result of these physical damages, there are many social evils created by the physical and verbal abuse which necessarily follow alcoholism. This abuse is inflicted primarily upon the spouse and the children. Once the family unity is disrupted all other evils are born. Many people use the excuse that there's nothing wrong with social drinking. Islaam differs strongly with this view.
Surely one can use many other types of soft drinks without having to resort to liquor which carries the potential hazard of carrying man to the lowest forms of degradation. The nature of this potential is also a matter for concern. Sellers of such drinks will dig up any excuse to make money and therefore the potential for harm is down-played. In an Islaamic environment the child is brought up with such a negative notion of alcohol that he automatically finds other clean methods of soothing his nerves. One has to merely compare adults who drink with those who do not and the results are self explanatory. But unfortunately this obvious fact has been blurred by those who are making millions in the sale of those drinks and stand much to loose if the people who support them realise the evils of alcohol. Islaam aims to stop this evil at the very root and therefore prohibits not only the consumption of alcohol but also the manufacturing, carrying, buying and selling of it.
Pork
The abstention from eating pork is one of the steps Islaam has taken to practice hygiene and to attain purity of human nature. Medical reasons are numerous and after reading them one will realise the wisdom of the Divine law of Islaam.
The pig is lazy, indulgent in sex, dislikes the sun, lacks spirit and determination to fight, lacks self discipline in eating and therefore eats even stool. It is the greatest carrier of germs. Eating pork encourages the revival of old ailments, fosters rheumatism and asthma. It also causes baldness and weakening of the memory.
Further proof of the wisdom behind the prohibition of pork is that it is a host to the following worms which in themselves are carriers of disease:-
1. Trichina worms are found in infected pork which causes Trichinosis infection in the muscles.
2. Balantidnii cote found in the pig's bowels causes dysentery.
3. Faciolipsi Baski found in the pig's small intestines causes persistent diarrhoea.
4. Round worms, i.e. the "travelling worm" causes local infestation,pneumonia, suffocation, jaundice and even brain tumours.
5. Hookworm causes anaemia, diarrhoea and a typhoid-like disease.
6. Paragonimus found in the lung of the pig causes bleeding of the lungs (endemic haemoptysis).
7. Clonorchis senensis found in the bile passage of the pig's liver causes clonobhiasis - a peculiar enlargement of the liver accompanied by severe jaundice, diarrhoea and emaciation.
8. Giganthoryschus gigas found in the pig's intestines causes anaemia and digestive disorders.
9. Mega strongylus apsis found in the pig's lungs causes bronchitis and abscess of the lungs.
10. Swine erysipelas found on the skin of pigs causes fever and inflammation of the skin.
11. Tubercle bacillus causes tuberculosis.
12. Taenia solium (pork tapeworm) found in the eggs of infected pigs causes diarrhoea, digestive disorders, anaemia and infected person remains in a state of chronic invalidism.
13. Trichinalla spirales found in flesh of pig causes trichiasis or tiichinelliasis i.e. acute abdominal pains, diarrhoea, twitching in various muscles, the face becomes puffy, eyelids swell, patient becomes weak and develops asthma and skin rash.
14. Varicella causes smallpox.
15. Sarcoptes scabies found in the flesh of the pigs causes scabies.
16. Fusiformis causes foot-rot.
17. Salmonella suipestifer causes cholera.
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