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"ARE WE EATING HARAM"
An interesting revelation made by different Islamic organizations that
majority of Muslims are eating things that are haram and more surprisingly,
they don't even know. In this regard one of the such exposition was made by
a Muslim named "Sheikh sahib", who once used to work for food department in
France which was a governmental organization. According to him:-
"I worked in the food department of France for 10 years. My work was to
do the registration of food items, makeup accessories and medicine used to
gain power. Whenever a company was about to launch its product into the
market I used to receive the samples of these products with which there used
to be a list of ingredients used in these products. My work was to send the
samples of these products to the laboratory for the clearance, and in
return, reports were send to me. Then I used to match the reports provided
to me by the laboratory with the list of ingredients used in the product. To
check if there is a difference or not. If no difference was found between
the reports and the list of ingredients, then a registration letter was
issued to that company.
To my observation, I noticed that whenever I am given the list of
ingredients by the companies some codes for example "E904" and "E141" are
written along with the names of chemicals, food items and medicines . At
first, I was very confounded and I inquired about these codes from my heads
and I was told not to worry and just do my job. I was astound to this
therefore I started my own investigation, during which some of the horrific
facts were revealed to me. I came to know that pork is eaten throughout
Europe, America and in the far east. Hundred and thousands of farms are
working in these countries. There are about 42 thousands farms in France
alone and thousands of pigs are nourished there. When they reach to certain
age, they are slaughtered and then they are brought into the markets.
The Americans and Europeans have their own traditions. These people don't
use fat, however when compared with other animals, pig takes the lead since
it has the greatest amount of fat in it.
Two hundred years back, farms were started and a slaughter house was
established and meat was supplied to the buyers in the supervision of food
departments due to which it became difficult for the suppliers to waste the
unused and remaining fat. At first suppliers used to burn this waste but
then they realized that it is basically a fat, so why not it should be used
in things where fat is required. It was then, these suppliers started to use
it by melting fat and then using it in the preparation of soaps and hence
they got a satisfactory out come of this experiment. After this a proper
processing plant was made which used to process fat, and then the packing of
it. This packing was then marketed. Different companies bought these
pickings of fat and use it in their food products. At the start of this
century, quality control system was started and this system started to
supervise the food items and medicine. Companies were obligated to print the
list of ingredients at the back of their products, as the result of which
these companies started printing "fats of pig" or "pig fats" at the back of
their products in the list of ingredients used in the product for few days,
this thing went normally until these companies started exporting their
products to Islamic countries. Muslims from all over the world started,
boycott of these products. In the war of 1857 commonly known as
"independence war", with Muslims and Hindus on one side while britishers on
the other. The back ground of this war was that in those days, bullets were
exported from Europe to Sub-Continent through ships. During the traveling
period, this ammunition gets wet because of moisture, with which the
ammunition gets unusable. In order to prevent this ammunition from becoming
a waste, the Government of Britain started using the layer of pig fat and
when this ammunition was used by the Muslim soldiers, they had to get rid of
fat layer from their bullets by their teethes. However, the news leaked out
somehow that the fat is of pig, as the result of which soldiers made a
revolt and this conflict between soldiers and the British Government turned
into the "War of Independence". Apart from this war, many incidents of this
nature started taking place, due to which companies started suffering with
heavy losses and had financial problems, which bought them almost close to
bankruptcy. With this, companies made an uproar, to end this, the European
Governments allowed these companies to print "animals fat" instead of
printing "pig fats", and started telling Muslims that pig fats are no longer
used in their products, instead they are now using other animal fats. At
this point, a question comes that if these companies are really using other
animal fats instead of pig fats then does it makes their product still a
"halal". The answer to it is no. The reason is that the way with which these
companies slaughter animals is not allowed in the Islamic shar'iah. Having
this thing in mind, the Muslims once again made boycott of their products.
At this junction, companies became multinational, and the population of
Muslims was increasing day by day in Europe and America and these
multinational companies couldn't afford to loose 1/3 of their customers, and
at the same time the production of these companies increased so much that it
got difficult for them to make proper arrangements, because if these
multinational companies would have worked in accordance to Islamic laws then
their budget would have been depraved, therefore after having long
discussions the board of executives of each and every company decided not to
mention "pig fats" anymore on their products. But here comes another problem
which is that they are obligated by the quality control system to mention
and print the list of ingredients at the back of their products, and if they
don't then it will be against the law, so a solution was considered of using
"codes", instead of mentioning or printing "pig fats" or "fat of pigs" at
the back of their products. These specific codes were used to determine that
in what product is what percentage of fat of what animal is used. The list
of these specific codes were then distributed to the food departments of
different countries, and these multinational companies are now earning huge
amount of profit every year. Products like tooth paste, shaving creams,
chewing gums, chocolates, biscuits, corn flakes, packed food items, and some
life saving medicines, in which some or huge amount of pig fat is used.
Being a Muslim, it is my responsibility to aware Muslims of such horrific
facts. With all sincerity I am giving out these specific codes which I have
sorted out from the files of my office and distributing it as much as I can
and for the readers, I am writing these codes below and for more information
and suggestions, my Muslim brothers and sisters can contact any alim
available to them. The codes are as follows:"
"E100, E110, E120, E140, E141, E153, E210, E213, E214, E216,
E254, E252, E270, E280, E585, E326, E327, E334, E335, E336, E337, E422,
E430, E431, E432, E433, E434, E435, E436, E440, E470, E471, E472, E473,
E474, E475, E476, E477, E478, E481, E482, E483, E491, E492, E493, E494,
E495, E542, E570, E572, E631, E635, E904".
Syed Kamran
Hussain
" Merit
Positions in HSC Part II Pre- Engineering a fluke"
After two and a half tantalizing months when the results of Pre-Medical
were announced, the result of HSC - II Pre - Engineering was awaited. But,
before the climax there was a mishap, the director of the Board of
intermediate education was removed from office on account of result fixing
on 22nd August, 2003. The results of Pre- Engineering were then expected to
come after re-tabulation and coding in two weeks or so but to the surprise
of most the results came out on 26th August, 2003 and the positions went to
St. Josephs and Adamjee obviously, frankly speaking I also don't know why,
then the very next day there were the published interviews of the position
holders and from there the story begins.
One of the position holder from Govt. Adamjee Science College claimed that
he attended the college on an average of 5%, he accepted that the credit of
his position goes to his tuition teachers, when this case was taken in front
of the concerned principal he refused any such claims by saying that he was
not present at the time.
Now the point to think over is that before exams the board had announced it
clearly that any student who fails to attend college for less then 75% is
not eligible to take the exams. Now the question arises how was this
position holder allowed to take the exams? On a more harder toen it has been
observed that 90% of the students from acclaimed colleges like Adamjee have
not fulfilled this requirement, First of all how were they allowed to take
the examinations? there must be some illegal mean by which they managed to,
to summarize the point the position given is NOT FARE .... if the rule is
present it should be implemented ... So for the sake of justice the board
should try to revoke this decision.... I appeal to all the students to
protest in this regard you know we aren't against the student but at least
or to the must we have to give our views in various news papers and
magazines so the board may know that we are not living in a fools paradise.
Various Students
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HUM KO AEWAZ BADNAAM
KIYA!---WHEN CONFRONTED
"Earth's nobelest
thing,a Woman perfected!"
LOWELL,Irene
Just a few days
back i came across a very intersting piece of a writing which goes like
this:
O GOD, THIS IS ALL I
ASK OF YOU. All of a sudden, he said out loud, "Lord grant me one wish."
Suddenly the sky clouded his head and in a booming voice the Lord said,
"Because you have TRIED to be faithful to me in all ways, I will grant you
one wish." The man said, "Build a bridge to Hawaii so I can drive over
anytime I want to." The Lord said, "Your request is very materialistic.
Think of the logistics of that kind of undertaking. The supports required to
reach the bottom of the Pacific! The concrete and steel it would take! I can
do it, but it is hard for me to justify your desire for worldly things. Take
a little more time and think of another wish, a wish you think would honor
and glorify me." The man thought about it for a long time. Finally, he said,
"Lord I wish that I could understand women. I want to know how they feel
inside, what they are thinking when they give me the silent treatment, why
they cry, what they mean when they say "nothing" and how I can make a woman
truly happy." After a few minutes God said, "You want two lanes or four on
that bridge?"
Intersting!but
while it is said that women- the most complicated creation to undersatnd and
like wise opine about thier nature.yet men all around love to do it at all
occasions.What a paradox!.An overgrowing sense of competion and an urge of
overshaowding and dominating the fair sex is sometimes incomprehensible.Now
a then one may hear a comment or a cranky joke directed towards the
girls.Sometime s I realy wonder that all these complains and these weakeness
that these men loving reminding women are merely outcome of some of the
complexes of men .Talk about false acuusation.
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