The Consumption of pork is prohibited in Islam, I am acknowledging the following point were made by Dr Zakir Naik, a famous scholar of Islam.
Pork is prohibited in Qur’an, The Qur’an prohibits the consumption of pork in no less than 4 different places, and it’s prohibited in 2:173, 5:3, 6:145 and 16:115
‘Forbidden to (for food) are: dead meat, blood, the flesh of swine, and that on which hath been invoked the name of other than Allah’ [al-Qur’an 5:3]
The above verses of the holy Qur’an are sufficient to satisfy a Muslim as to why pork is forbidden, pork is prohibited in bible as well, in the book of Leviticus ‘’Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcass shall ye not be touch, they are unclean to you’’[Leviticus 11:7-8]. Pork is also prohibited in the book of Deuteronomy ‘’and the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you. You shall not of their flesh, not touch their dead carcass’’ [Deuteronomy 14:8], A similar prohibition is repeated in the bible in the book Isaiah chapter 65 verses 2-5.
Allah [god] would not prohibited something which is beneficial for human being, consumption of pork causes several diseases, The other non-Muslims and atheists will agree only if convinced through reason, logic and science. Eating pork can cause no less than seventy different types of diseases, a person can have various helminth like roundworm, pinworm, hookworm, etc. one of the most dangerous is taenia solium, which is in lay man’s terminology called tapeworm. It harbours in the intestine and very long. It ova i.e. eggs, enter the blood stream and can reach almost all the organs of the body. If it enters the brain it cause memory loss. If it enters the heart it can cause heart attack, if it enter eyes it can cause blindness, If it enters the liver it can cause liver damage. It can damage almost all the organs of the body. Another helmintes is trichura tichurasis. A common misconception about pork is that if it is cooked well, thes ova die, in a research undertaken in America, it was found the out of twenty-four people suffering from trichura tichurasis, twenty two had cooked the pork very well, this indicates that ova presents in the pork do not die under normal cooking temperature.
Pork has fat building material
Pork has very little muscle building material and contains excess of fat. This fat
gets deposited in the vessels and can cause hypertension and heart attack. It is
not surprising that over 50% of Americans suffer from hypertension.
The pig is one of the filthiest animals on earth. It lives and thrives on muck,
faeces and dirt. It is the best scavenger that I know that God has produced. In
the villages they don’t have modern toilets and the villagers excrete in the open
air. Very often excreta is cleared by pigs.
Some may argue that in advanced countries like Australia, pigs are bred in very
clean and hygienic conditions. Even in these hygienic conditions the pigs are
kept together in sties. No matter how hard you try to keep them clean they are
filthy by nature. They eat and enjoy their own as well as their neighbour’s
excreta.
