tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799144498932126167.post8085370053483578140..comments2024-02-26T07:02:01.185-05:00Comments on Freedom from the Forbidden: The Haraam Police: on Muslim vegetarians and vegansqrratugaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16986383116815099640noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799144498932126167.post-5627100056646946122015-10-09T23:15:23.672-04:002015-10-09T23:15:23.672-04:00@ Nabil:
I can think of at least two different po...@ Nabil:<br /><br />I can think of at least two different possibilities.<br />1. They might not eat meat themselves but won't deprive other people of it. If they believe that qurbaani is sincerely about feeding the poor meat and nothing BUT meat necessarily, then they might do qurbaani for the poor.<br /><br />2. They might believe that the larger concept isn't about meat being fed to qrratugaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16986383116815099640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799144498932126167.post-64162258224310142672015-09-22T19:27:39.200-04:002015-09-22T19:27:39.200-04:00Fantastic post. Even non-muslims who eat meat carr...Fantastic post. Even non-muslims who eat meat carry on about vegetarians - it's like it's a personal slight on them because they eat meat - but muslims are particularly entrenched in meat eating. It's definitely not something I relate to personally. <br />"Doesn't it sicken you when we disguise ourselves as God just to control people, to weaken them, to hurt them?" I Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799144498932126167.post-63143733432731746932015-09-18T13:19:11.941-04:002015-09-18T13:19:11.941-04:00how do vegetarians preform qurbani?how do vegetarians preform qurbani?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04871551661261455563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799144498932126167.post-66430866773471960432015-09-18T13:15:43.909-04:002015-09-18T13:15:43.909-04:00i agree but how do vegetarians preform qurbanii agree but how do vegetarians preform qurbaniAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04871551661261455563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799144498932126167.post-62718152107867522082015-04-02T19:05:18.574-04:002015-04-02T19:05:18.574-04:00I am very interested to find all these Muslim vege...I am very interested to find all these Muslim vegetarians.I have two points to make: at age 80 I have been vegetarian all my adult life and well and free from any aches and pains. I've had 'flu once as an adult and no colds for 12 years.<br />The other point is that Muslims are, apparently, forbidden from eating/drinking blood. Next time you see a lump of 'halal meat' just chop itAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799144498932126167.post-80775223554866711252015-01-02T06:04:07.268-05:002015-01-02T06:04:07.268-05:00We all need energy to live and that energy come fr...We all need energy to live and that energy come from the Sun. The only specie on planet earth that could convert that Sun's energy is the Plant. All other species including Home Sapiens cannot do that. So why must our specie eat animal who had to eat vegetable first to get that energy when we can get it direct from the plants. A vegan is the smartest of our specie since they get the energyPak Idrushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05420141407304142741noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799144498932126167.post-43476525847584158852014-05-14T23:51:52.542-04:002014-05-14T23:51:52.542-04:00Thank you, EternitySojourner! I've shared the ...Thank you, EternitySojourner! I've shared the link with others, and I hope they respond.<br />Best of luck with the survey!qrratugaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16986383116815099640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799144498932126167.post-69548919207631267632014-05-09T23:18:20.223-04:002014-05-09T23:18:20.223-04:00As salaamu alaykum!
I'm writing an article abo...As salaamu alaykum!<br />I'm writing an article about Vegan/Vegetarian Muslims and would appreciate your help in circulating this survey. If you know anyone who CURRENTLY identifies as BOTH MUSLIM AND VEGAN/VEGETARIAN, please share this survey with them. Thanks in advance!<br />https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1hli1P4oRiwGh9S7j-od4z41iH92iCVQqFjJ9LGga7m0/viewformeternitysojournerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04166142550691545834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799144498932126167.post-41626978539259181442014-02-28T10:05:40.775-05:002014-02-28T10:05:40.775-05:00Salaams to everyone,
You're not sure what ethi...Salaams to everyone,<br />You're not sure what ethics have to do with environmental degradation and exploitation of third-world workers? We'll agree to disagree on that point, then. Regarding the treatment of the animals, I agree that they are often subject to horrible conditions. That is why I support meat from free-range farms where the animals are treated humanely. It is more Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799144498932126167.post-31889164856496213262014-02-26T08:01:41.215-05:002014-02-26T08:01:41.215-05:00This is animal cruelty even in halal
http://www.y...This is animal cruelty even in halal<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DP3YtCpS2A<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799144498932126167.post-57204653834750166612014-02-26T08:00:17.418-05:002014-02-26T08:00:17.418-05:00"Do not allow your stomachs to become graveya..."Do not allow your stomachs to become graveyards"<br />Prophet Muhammad, Hadith<br /><br />"A good deed done to an animal is as meritorious as a good deed done to a human being, while an act of cruelty to an animal is as bad as an act of cruelty to a human being"<br />The Prophet Muhammad: Hadith<br /><br />"Whoever is kind to the creatures of God is kind to himself."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799144498932126167.post-84681138152270856072013-11-04T00:02:07.547-05:002013-11-04T00:02:07.547-05:00Thank you for your insight, Jean!
The Prophet act...Thank you for your insight, Jean!<br /><br />The Prophet actually didn't "recommend" eating meat. It's just something that he or Islam did not forbid. The world is full of vegetarian people or people who just don't eat meat--and they're perfectly normal, healthy, and fine. Or at least no better or worse than those who eat meat. Eating meat has a lot of harms to the qrratugaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16986383116815099640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799144498932126167.post-89300833166754446922013-11-03T11:28:36.622-05:002013-11-03T11:28:36.622-05:00There is a reason that The Prophet (saw) recommend...There is a reason that The Prophet (saw) recommended eating meat. Eating vegan or even vegetarian is ruinous to health and disastrous for the environment. When I went to University in the nineties, I knew a fat handful of students who started a vegetarian diet all starry-eyed and idealistic and ended it when their health declined, hair began falling out, etc. The hardliners say, no you have toAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12525213343278389508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799144498932126167.post-11318249895932904372013-10-17T02:24:06.226-04:002013-10-17T02:24:06.226-04:00@ Marian if you are eating meat this this means yo...@ Marian if you are eating meat this this means you are not vegetarian. So pls dont say you are, say you are a person on occasions that eat meat.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07664409765012960215noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799144498932126167.post-15478198612307301042013-10-17T02:16:25.069-04:002013-10-17T02:16:25.069-04:00I am also a revet of nine years from the USA and I...I am also a revet of nine years from the USA and I am vegetarian and muslim. Here is a site for people that want to be vegetarian or thinking about it or already are . www.veggieboards.com<br /><br />Its a great site and I am a member here.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07664409765012960215noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799144498932126167.post-72917493380327506762013-10-17T02:13:32.219-04:002013-10-17T02:13:32.219-04:00No brother Umair its is only if you have the mean...No brother Umair its is only if you have the means to do this. ok. and second it is nothing wrong with being vegetarian. I am muslim revert and vegetarian. there is nothing in quran and hadeeths that state you have to eat m eat.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07664409765012960215noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799144498932126167.post-41859691420522917592013-10-17T02:04:51.249-04:002013-10-17T02:04:51.249-04:00Im muslim and vegetarian and glad to see this.Im muslim and vegetarian and glad to see this.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07664409765012960215noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799144498932126167.post-50093851190816620772013-10-15T10:52:37.327-04:002013-10-15T10:52:37.327-04:00hope this will be answered. With Qurbani and veget...hope this will be answered. With Qurbani and vegetarianism/ veganism, how is someone who is vegetarian/ vegan justify morally killing or having an animal sacrificed? I know it would go against many of their moral reasonings. Often they don't eat meat or animal products because of the cruelty to the animal and the taking of a life, sacrificing it against their own will and the animals. The GodAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799144498932126167.post-22211860648023773222013-09-17T12:32:52.965-04:002013-09-17T12:32:52.965-04:00Great line you have shared here this
"God kno...Great line you have shared here this<br />"God knows what's best for you, and you don't."<br />Really nice its great.Online Qurbani Serviceshttp://donateonlinequrbani.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799144498932126167.post-59432977583200574422013-05-21T13:43:56.566-04:002013-05-21T13:43:56.566-04:00Surah Al-Baqarah
[172] O you who belive! Ea...Surah Al-Baqarah <br /><br /> [172] O you who belive! Eat of the good things that We have provided for you, and be grateful to Allah, if it is Him you worship. [173] He has only forbiden you dead meat, and blood, and the flesh of swine, and that on which any other name has been invoked besides that of Allah But if one is forced by necessity, without wilful disobedience, nor transgressing due Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06122707504954916498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799144498932126167.post-52493020316786322332013-03-22T15:08:52.427-04:002013-03-22T15:08:52.427-04:00what a wonderful blog!!!!!!! <3what a wonderful blog!!!!!!! <3Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06280686346729676795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799144498932126167.post-45901152573052881932013-03-04T14:27:57.854-05:002013-03-04T14:27:57.854-05:00Hi Im so happy to see that there are others out th...Hi Im so happy to see that there are others out there who are Muslim and Vegetarian/Vegan. I myself have not faced any judgment from people yet, but I recently opened my eyes to what really is going on and how the meat we eat is " produced" . The suffering the animals go through repulses me and is no way how God intended us to treat animals, and that to me is HARAM, it doesn't Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799144498932126167.post-19201292800724439942013-02-02T23:42:22.676-05:002013-02-02T23:42:22.676-05:00Salam Alaikum,
I am a revert too, and trying to b...Salam Alaikum,<br /><br />I am a revert too, and trying to be vegan, but am Muslim first, vegan second. My heart swells to hear there are others out there. There are non-veg brothers and sisters who understand what we do, and accept it "as long as our diet doesn't harm ourselves", which I find fair. <br /><br />But am sure they can't be around every time I meet the haraam policeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799144498932126167.post-31434780465957107532012-12-29T10:16:23.870-05:002012-12-29T10:16:23.870-05:00really an eye opener for all those orthodox Muslim... really an eye opener for all those orthodox Muslims. you are a wonderful human being. being a brahmin hindu i'm always against killing animals. even its not good for health. we should eat live foods and not dead meat. this has got nothing to do with religion though . HUMANITY IS DESTINATION OF EVERY RELIGION!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799144498932126167.post-19129897583983372422012-11-19T00:47:04.522-05:002012-11-19T00:47:04.522-05:00Thanks for your comments, everyone! I really appre...Thanks for your comments, everyone! I really appreciate them!<br /><br />VeganMuslimah, Anonymous, and Aliaa: I can't seem to click "Reply" in response to your comments, so I'll just reply this way.<br /><br />Aliaa, I agree! Definitely! You should start a blog! That's a great way to start the support group :) Lemme know when you open it, and I'll promote it on my blog/qrratugaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16986383116815099640noreply@blogger.com