Re: Why does Allah care if we eat pork or not?
Apparently, it is true that if you pour Coke on a piece of pork and wait a little while, you will see worms crawl out of it 
That should be enough of a visual to deter you from consuming pork, YB 
Again, folks who are posting in this thread apparently have not understood my question.
I am not debating whether it's right or wrong to eat pork. I'm just asking that given the logic of declaring pork haraam since it's bad for our health, the same argument can be made for chicken and beef. Then howcome; they have not been declared haraam?
To this point, after almost 100 replies, someone has actually yet to respond to my actual question other than going on a rant themselves. So it's useless for me to even participate in this thread further; if we cannot discuss the question at hand.
Peace Yea_Boii
I think I understand your question now, but before I answer it I want to clarify that Muslims cannot decalre anything haram unless there is a scriptural mandate, so to say something is bad for health is the reason we don't eat it is wrong, rather with study one can be shown some indication to the wisdom of not eating pork because that abstinence may save us from a number of diseases.
Now you want to compare pork to chicken and beef, okay let's do that but you need a fair comparison. You cannot bring one disease which is mild in humans caught from one animal and make it equal to another disease which is quite severe in humans from another animal.
Here is the criteria:
a) Number of diseases that humans are at risk of by consuming the meat
b) The severity of the symptoms of that disease that they at risk to
c) The level of how well the disease can be treated
d) Compare like for like ... e.g. not to compare meat from a diseased animal to perfectly normal meat from another. That in the case of eating a disease free chicken and a disease free pig, one can no longer entertain the likes of mad cow disease nor avian flu, because to eat the meat of a diseased animal is haram anyway. We can only slaughter to eat the meat of healthy animals the question here is does healthy pig meat still harbour diseases?
Based on this criteria we have another statement which is the *fewer benefits from the harms *principle. It is not permissible for us to consume cocaine, but caffeine is also quite addictive does it make that drug haram? No, because the severity is far less. Comparing pork to beef or chicken is like comparing the hardcore drugs to the simple drugs that they share the attribute of being addictive but only one of them is illegal and the other is not.
Re: Why does Allah care if we eat pork or not?
Yea_Boii
The simplest answer is that Allah SWT has declared it haram for us to consume and therein lies a test of our obedience to Allah SWT command. All human wisdom dwarfs compared to the wisdom that lies with obeying Allah SWT command even if all hte reasons are not understood. There may come a day where pork may be treated to the extent where it could be claimed it no longer carries diseases or other harmful effects or simply it may be treated to the point where it compares with other meats, and that will still not make it halal for a muslim simply because its first anf foremost a test of faith for us to Allah SWT. We are free to use our wisdom in things which are permissible to us and differentiate between there benefits and harms.
Re: Why does Allah care if we eat pork or not?
^ bro USResident
I’ve been so long away from our conversation on science … are you here to stay now? It’s my turn isn’t it?
And totally apt answer above, but I think he is looking for why not chicken or beef based on the argument of health. So what you are telling him is that the “argument of not being health” is not the reason why it is haram, and that he is mistaken.
Rather, we must adhere to the instruction of Allah (SWT) and avoid the meat. You know the forbidding of pork also clarifies another thing. It proves that Paul was no prophet and that he was an imposter. It shows that Paul was the one who preached another gospel different to Isa (AS), because the Clarification that the Qur’an is has obviously shown that pork is and always will be haram and the Christians had no right to make it permissible, when God had told the Jews that it was not. The reference to pork links us to the ancient Abrahamic lineage.
Akhi
JAK.
Subhanallah, interesting isn’t it that pork is becoming so widespread and economical (inspite of health concerns) now that it is really proving to be a test of faith now.
I believe it is your turn. I still frequent though I reply seldom.