Re: A Mars a day helps you work, rest and sin
Peace USResident
Pork ki to door ki baat hai .... Let's make your question even more constricted to give you the most emphatic answer I can.
Instead of considering a monoglyceride let's consider two slabs of beef, one is from a cow that has been knife slaughtered with the blood allowed to drain, the other has been slaughtered in the same way except that the takbeer/dua has been read over it. There will be no visible macroscopic nor microscopic difference between the two slabs of meat, one will be haram the other will be halal.
The same analogy should be applicable for the monoglycerides. I hope this helps. Remember the monoglycerides are biochemically derived from the source and the only way a haram thing become halal is when it goes out of it's organic form in to the inorganic and then back in to the organic. This way pork can never be halal due to the Qur'anic injunction, and beef will only be halal if the correct rites are undertaken during slaughter.
JAK.
Actually I would tend to disagree with the example of one slaughtered with Takbir and the other without provided one was slaughtered by a muslim and the other by people of the book. The Quranic ayat that states the food from people of the book is allowed has no ifs and buts attached to it. I have confirmed this from many Arabic people who understand the Quranic arabic. My wife is also Arabic so often I don't have to look far. There is no extrapolation to that ayat or dual meaning in its words.
Even from my own analysis of the ayat that states any meat that has been slaughtered with any name other than Allah SWT is haram is very specific in defining the situation. You will need to read it again and again to get its point. Its talking specifically about ritual meat, its not as general as most people take it to be. Its prohibiting meat on which a name other than Allah SWT has been pronounced (which is ritual meat), it is not prohibiting meat on which no name has been pronounced or meat that has been slaughtered by People of the book for food consumption.
The Quran or the ahadith do not mention how the People of the Book used to slaughter their meat though we assume that they said Allah SWT name but it is not known for sure nor is there any evidence in our scriptures of such a practice. The ayat about allowing meat from the poeple of the book would be in sharp conflict with the one that prohibits any meat slaughtered if Allah SWT name were not pronounced on it because there are no conditions attached to the ayat which allows meat from the people of the book.
I think I do understand the bio/chemical process now as you've done a good job explaining it to me. I would agree now that if it came from a pork source then it is haram (it is still organic in nature) however I would not say it is haram if it came from a beef source simply because I do not think the beef slaughtered by the people of the book is haram.