Prohibition of Pork Consumption in Islamic Law
One example of verses from the Qur'an on pig consumption:
The Quran 2:173
- He has made unlawful for you that which dies of itself (caracas) and blood and the flesh of swine and that on which the name of any other than Allah has been invoked. But he who is driven by necessity, being neither disobedient nor exceeding the limit, then surely, Allah is Most Forgiving, Merciful.
Muslim law is similar to Jewish law for the consumption of pork, that the land animal, to be Halal, it must have split hooves and chew its cud and it cannot have one of the other, like the pig has split hooves but does not chew its cud.
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