Professor Mahmoud Mohamed Taha Dead meat, blood, and pork are forbidden to us Dead meat, pork, spilled blood, and that which is dedicated to other than God... that which is dedicated to other than God, meaning that which they did not say "God is Great" - they slaughtered it for an idol - is forbidden... The issue is in dead meat, blood, and pork, the prohibition came from the fact that man - as if man - is the point of convergence of earth and sky... Man grew from the earth, a plant; and the factors of heaven descended upon him, in his growth, just as this tree is an interaction between things and elements present in all of existence... Without sunlight, air, and heat; without soil and water, the tree would not stand... The upper factors and the lower factors came together in the tree... It is the same, they came together in man... Man is "animal and angel", or say, "body and mind"... This mind is as if it came from above; The soul, or body, grew like the animal grows. When the mind descended upon the animal, it gave it “valuable considerations.” That is, the animal grew from the earth, and was indulgent in the earth following its desires. When this mind came, it planned for the desire: it said, this is forbidden – this is a forbidden desire – leave it; this is a permissible desire, take from it what you like!! The rule of the mind came. This rule of the mind, as if it is driving us from our lowest point on the earth to the highest point. As if the mind, God sent it to us to drive us to it, and this is a fact. We walk to God with our minds. The animal is low on the earth, and continues. Therefore, He said: “Is he who walks prone on his face better guided than he who walks upright on a straight path?” Being upright on the straight path, He brought us these minds. Here, the image of it, is that man has this duality: an animal who wants to walk according to the law of the animal; An angel wants to tame an animal, to walk according to the law of good and evil; forbidden and permissible. Here, the responsibility on the mind is very great, in taming this animal. Therefore, Islam came - the religion came - with methods that help the mind to lead the soul. When you come, for example, like fasting: our Prophet said about fasting: “The devil runs through one of you like blood, so narrow his paths by fasting”!! As if when you starve this animal, it becomes easy to lead - weak, to discipline it.. like a person if, for example, he has a mare on an island, grazing all the time, strong and fat, and the time has come to discipline her.. he wants some kind of discipline for her, and some kind of starvation for her.. maybe she won’t settle on her saddle if you ride her while she is strong like this.. you calm her down a little, to obey the reins, and let you settle on her saddle, some time.. including this starvation.. you starve the mare, to break it a little.. likewise, they starve the soul, to break it.. here, the blood is the life of the soul - the blood in this body, the life of the soul.. the “shed” blood, and therefore, he said, not the congealed blood.. for example, the liver and the intestines, blood, but it is not forbidden.. the spilled blood is the life of the soul.. and it is, in fact, the liquid that takes the blood and purifies it to nourish the cells The whole body.. So the blood is the life of the soul.. If this soul is lowly on the ground, then they prevented it from increasing, by adding to itself an additional lowly value, which is the other soul - the blood - in order to be elevated.. So they said, the blood must be shed.. When the blood comes out of the flesh, it becomes closer to being food without the dire consequences, which is in the blood - the life of the soul came out, or the soul came out, say, from the body of the animal, and therefore the meat becomes permissible after the blood is shed from it.. The dead animal was only forbidden because the blood in it - the blood congealed in the flesh of the dead animal.. So if it was, for example, in another place, the one that fell; and the one that was gored; and the one that was beaten; and what the beast ate, “except what you slaughtered”... the one that fell, fell from above or fell into a well; and the one that was gored, the one that was gored by its sisters; And the one who was struck by the lion and killed... except what you slaughtered - except what you slaughtered and from which blood came out... But if it died with its blood, the sanctity of blood makes the dead forbidden... This is regarding the blood, and regarding the dead... Then, the pig: The pig, they said, is gluttony embodied... The pig is as if it is a symbol of gluttony... They say that if you put two loaves of bread for it and fill the basin with water, it drinks all this water, to reach the two loaves... And if you notice, the pig is always snorting and eating, in this way, if you find it in the kiosk, or if you find it in... Basically, you can't s