EASY
GUIDE FOR NEW MUSLIMS
3)
DIET
To maintain a pure
heart and a sound mind, Islam provides the necessary dietary guidelines
to nourish your soul and maintain a clean and healthy body. Islam
specifies what is halal
(allowed) and haram (forbidden). Forbidden for you to consume
is pork and any of its by-products, animals which were slaughtered
in the name of a deity other than Allah, alcohol of any type or
any food prepared with alcohol, blood, animals found dead. It is
only permisible for you to eat any of these foods if you are faced
with a life or death situation and you need to eat them in order
to survive, but even then you should only consume enough to keep
you nourished. Along with alcohol, any sort of intoxicants such
as drugs are also prohibitted.
A recommended and cautious
way to shop around for grocery is to read the labels on the food
package or cans, or when eating at a restaurant ask your waiter
if any of the ingredients include pork or alcohol (for instance,
many dishes are made with mustard, and if dijon mustard is used
then you can not eat it because white wine is an ingredient of all
dijon mustards). Some food packages have toll free 1-800 numbers,
call them if you are suspicious of any ingredient.
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Food for thought ... and action
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[And God said to Adam] 'Get you all down out of it; yet there shall most certainly come to you guidance from Me, and those who follow My guidance need have no fear, and neither shall they grieve.' Quran 2:38
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