Islamic dietary laws

This is a sub-article to Hygiene in Islam , Healthy diet and Food and cooking hygiene . Islamic dietary laws provide direction on what is to be considered clean and unclean regarding diet and related issues.

This is derived from commandments found in the Qur'an , the holy book of Islam , as well as the Hadith and Sunnah , libraries cataloging things the Islamic prophet Muhammad is reported to have said and done. Extensions of these rulings are issued, as fatwas , by mujtahids , with varying degrees of strictness, but they are not always widely held to be authoritative. According to the Quran , the only foods explicitly forbidden are meat from animals that die of themselves, blood, the meat of swine (porcine animals, pigs), and animals dedicated to other than Allah (either undedicated or dedicated to idols ), but a person is not guilty of sin in a situation where the lack of any alternative creates an undesired necessity to consume that which is otherwise unlawful. ( Quran 2:173) This is the "law of necessity" in Islamic jurisprudence: "That which is necessary makes the forbidden permissible", which, in the case of dietary laws, allows one to eat pork or carrion, or drink wine or ethanol if one were starving or dying of thirst (although the Shafi'i madhhab differs on the issue of ethanolic drinks).

Religious dietary restrictions ( Learn how and when to remove this message ) Further information: Islamic hygienical jurisprudence Political Islamic leadership Caliphate Majlis-ash-Shura Imamate Wilayat al-faqih Bay'ah Dhimmi Aman Family Criminal Etiquette Adab Gender segregation ( Purdah ) Mahram Honorifics Toilet Economic Hygiene Military Jihad Ghanimah Hudna Istijarah (asylum) Prisoners of war Social Haqq al-Nas ( The right(s) of the people ) Islamic studies v t e Islamic jurisprudence specifies which foods are halāl ( حَلَال , "lawful") and which are harām ( حَرَامْ , "unlawful"). This is derived from commandments found in the Qur'an , the holy book of Islam , as well as the Hadith and Sunnah , libraries cataloging things the prophet Muhammad is reported to have said and done. Extensions of these rulings are issued, as fatwas , by mujtahids , with varying degrees of strictness, but they are not always widely held to be authoritative. According to the Quran , the only foods explicitly forbidden are meat from animals that die of themselves, blood, the meat of pigs and any food dedicated to other than God. However, a person would not be guilty of sin in a situation where the lack of any alternative creates an undesired necessity to consume that which is otherwise unlawful. ( Quran 2:173) This is the " law of necessity " in Islamic jurisprudence: "That which is necessary makes the forbidden permissible."

Islamic jurisprudence positions on food Further information: Islamic hygienical jurisprudence ( Learn how and when to remove this message ) Political Islamic leadership Caliphate Majlis-ash-Shura Imamate Wilayat al-faqih Bay'ah Dhimmi Aman Family Criminal Etiquette Adab Gender segregation ( Purdah ) Mahram Honorifics Toilet Economic Hygiene Military Jihad Ghanimah Hudna Istijarah (asylum) Prisoners of war Social Haqq al-Nas ( The right(s) of the people ) Islamic studies v t e Islamic dietary laws are laws that Muslims follow in their diet. Islamic jurisprudence specifies which foods are halāl ( حَلَال , "lawful") and which are harām ( حَرَامْ , "unlawful"). The dietary laws are found in the Quran , the holy book of Islam , as well as in collections of traditions attributed to Islamic prophet Muhammad ("Sunnah"). Herbivores , cud-chewing animals like cattle, deer, sheep, goats, and antelope are some examples of animals that are halal only if they are treated like sentient beings and slaughtered painlessly while reciting the Bismillah and Takbir . If the animal is treated poorly or tortured while being slaughtered, the meat is haram. Forbidden food substances include alcohol , pork, carrion, the meat of carnivores, and animals that died due to illness, injury, stunning, poisoning, or slaughtering not in the name of God.

Islamic food code Traditional Mezban cooking is a tradition of cooking and serving halal food to people on special occasions in Bangladesh. Further information: Islamic hygienical jurisprudence ( Learn how and when to remove this message ) Political Islamic leadership Caliphate Majlis-ash-Shura Imamate Wilayat al-faqih Bay'ah Dhimmi Aman Family Criminal Etiquette Adab Gender segregation ( Purdah ) Mahram Honorifics Toilet Economic Hygiene Military Jihad Ghanimah Hudna Istijarah (asylum) Prisoners of war Social Haqq al-Nas ( The right(s) of the people ) Islamic studies v t e Islamic dietary laws are laws that Muslims follow in their diet. Islamic jurisprudence specifies which foods are halal ( Arabic : حَلَال , romanized : ḥalāl , lit. ' lawful ' ) and which are haram ( Arabic : حَرَام , romanized : ḥarām , lit. ' unlawful ' ). The dietary laws are found in the Quran , the holy book of Islam , as well as in collections of traditions attributed to the Islamic prophet Muhammad . Herbivores, cud-chewing animals like cattle, deer, sheep, goats, and antelope are some examples of animals that are halal only if they are treated like sentient beings and slaughtered painlessly while reciting the basmala and takbir . If the animal is treated poorly or tortured while being slaughtered, the meat is haram. Forbidden food substances include alcohol, pork, frog, carrion, the meat of carnivores, and animals that died due to illness, injury, stunning, poisoning, or slaughtering not in the name of God.