Legitimate rooting of halal food in the light of the Qur’an and the Prophet’s Sunnah An analytical study

Abstract

Food is considered one of the necessities of human life, and the texts of the Noble Qur’an and the pure Sunnah have urged eating what is permissible and avoiding what is forbidden in order to preserve the soul and the mind.

And this research has clarified the concept of halal food, and that it is what a person consumes of legal foodstuffs in the event of choice, but what is permitted to him from what is forbidden is in the case of necessity and then returns to the principle of his ruling, which is the prohibition.

Then he talked about the importance of food and Islam's interest in the means that lead to human health, because preserving the soul and the mind is one of the five necessities that Islam commanded to preserve. It reached the following results:

1 - The basic principle with regard to non-animal foods is that they are permissible unless there is shar’i evidence that they are prohibited, and therefore foods in which the reason for their being permitted or prohibited is not known, the basic principle is that they are permissible.

2- Islamic Sharia prohibits foods that harm humans, such as poison and the like, and whose harmfulness is known through experience or experience, and this is followed by what people of good nature deplore.

3- The food of the People of the Book is permissible for Muslims, provided that it is from what is permissible in our law. As for what was forbidden, it is forbidden, in addition to the fact that it is stipulated in the slaughter of animals that their slaughter be legal, if it is by suffocation, beating, or electric shock, it is not permissible to eat them.