My research question is Why do Muslims do not eat pork? It is about forbidden rules of Islam religion to the followers, or to the Muslims. It is about resistance from eating pork. I said "resistance" because in our modern life there is temptation to eat meat of pig: every where you can meet ordinaries and restaurants where pork is sold, and a lot of people eat it and wish to taste it appear. In this time Muslims ask themselves "can they taste pork?", "is it taboo?", so to keep following religion, they start to investigate and search answer, and it is very important for them to strict along that religion without mistakes and misfires. I personally chose this topic, because I live in society, where most of people are followers of Allah, and including I am. So I am curious about that and it is very interesting for me to know the answer. I think that Muslims should not eat pork, because it is written so in Qur’an, but I have doubt that it is so, so let me check my hypothesis.
Islam is the religion, which was preached by Prophet Muhammad. It is divided into 2 parts: Sunni and Shia. Sunni follows Qur’an and Sunnah, Shia follows only Qur’an. So Qur’an is The Holy Book of Islam. Muslims believe that in Qur’an there are admonitions to live properly and fairly.
As written in Qur’an: “Forbidden to you (for food) are: dead meat, blood, the flesh of swine, and that on which hath been invoked the name of other as Allah.” (Al- Quran 5:3). I want you to pay attention on the words like “forbidden” and “flesh of swine”. It means that followers of Quran have not to eat pork. So this ayah (Ayah means "evidence" or "sign". In the context of Islam's principal scripture, the Qur'an, ayah is used to mean "verse") tell us why Muslims do not eat pork, bu...
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...terminology is called the pork tapeworm. It harbors in the intestine and is very long. Its ova i.e. egg , enter the ancestrystream and can reach almost all the . reed organ of the trunk . If it enters the brain it can cause computer memory loss. If it enters the heart it can cause heart attack, in the eye it can cause blindness, and in the liver it can cause liver .equipment casualty . It can damage almost all the harmonium of thebody.
My thesis statement was correct, but not full. I found that it is not only one reason, second is about nature of pork, they are scavengers and nothing can’t stop them from eating from eating wastes and, consequently it will be in meat. Third reason is that
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