Jabou,
Thank you very much for sending me the verses concerning the prohibition of
pork and alcohol. Anyway i neither drink alcohol nor eat pork. I never
doubted what is in the koran. I have been to DAARA in the gambia. What i was
wondering is the story behind prohibition of alcohol and pork because that
is the question i face whenever i tell somebody i dont drink alcohol or i
dont eat pork.
Jabou, i thank  you once again for enlightening me.

Gog bless you
Matarr


>From: Jabou Joh <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: Quranic prohibitions on food & intoxicants
>Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 09:59:43 EST
>
>G-L,
>
>I am forwarding the following response to the question of the forbidden
>foods
>and drink in Islam on behalf of Falankoi Janneh.
>
>Jabou Joh
>
>Date:   1/5/2002 4:05:52 AM Central Standard Time
>Subj:   Re: Quranic Prohibitions on food and intoxicants
>Date:   1/5/2002 4:05:52 AM Central Standard Time
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>
>
>To support Habib's arguement and for the benefit of others, I would
>like to refer Matarr to the following quranic prohibitions:
>
>
>FOOD:
>
>Al- Quran -2:173
>
>"He has forbidden you dead meat, and blood, and flesh of swine, and on
>which nay other name has been invoked besides that of Allah. But if one
>is forced by necessity without willful disobedience, nor transgressing,
>due limits...then he is not guilty, for Allah is forgiving, merciful."
>
>
>Al-Quran 5:4
>
>"Forbidden to you are: Dead meat, blood, flesh of swine and that on
>which has been invoked a name other than Allah's, and that killed by
>strangling, or by a violent blow, or by a headlong fall, or by being
>gored to death: That which has been  eaten by a wild animal: Unless you
>are able to slaughter it, that  which sacrificed on stone: (forbideen)
>also is the divination of arrows: that is impiety."
>
>
>Al-Quran 6: 145
>
>"Say: I find not in the Message received by me by inspiration any meat
>forbidden to be eaten by one who wishes to eat it, unless it be dead
>meat, or blood poured forth, or the flesh of swine, for it is an
>abomination, - or what is impious, (meat) on which a name has been
>invoked, other than God's. But even so, if a person is forced by
>necessity without wilful disobedience, nor transgressing due limits, -
>Your Lord is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful."
>
>Al-Quran 16: 115
>
>"He has only forbidden you dead meat, and blood; and the flesh of
>swine, and any (food) over which the name of other God has been invoked.
>But if one is forced by necessity without wilful disobedience, nor
>transgressing due limits, - Your Lord is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful."
>
>
>INTOXICANTS:
>
>Al-Quran 2: 219
>
>"They ask you concerning wine and gambling. Say: "in them there is
>great sin, and some profit for men, but sin is greater than the
>profit."
>
>Al-Quran 4: 43
>
>"O you who believe! Approach not prayers, with a mind befogged, until
>you can understand all that you say."
>
>Al-Quran 5:90
>
>"O You who believe! Intoxicants and gambling, (dedication of) stones,
>and (divination by) arrows, are an abomination of Satan's handiwork.
>Avoid such (abomination) that you may prosper."
>
>
>Al-Quran 5: 91
>
>"Satan's plan is to sow enmity and hatred among you with intoxicants
>and gambling, and to hinder you from the remembrance of Allah and from
>prayer. Will you not then give up."
>
>
>I hope the above help improve Matarr's understanding of the reason why
>Allah has forbidden us from eating flesh of swine and drinking of
>alcohol.
>
>May Allah help all of  us alway  against Satan's ploy and keep us on the
>straight path. Ameen!!!
>
>Falankoi Janneh
>
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