₦airaland Forum

djon78:
You can't compare the Germans to the igbos.
It's someone ignorant of history that will talk such.
The Germans with the Japanese were the aggressors during the second World War.

The Germans exterminated six million Jews and millions of Europeans.
The Japanese dealt with many countries in the Asia Pacific region from China, to Singapore, Malaysia, even far away Australia during the second World War.

Those two countries were the aggressors.
We the igbos were never the agressor.
Rather we bare the brunt of the civil war, losing over 2 million of our people.


Secondly the world accepted and assimilated with both Germany and Japan after the second World War.
Read about the marshal plan fund that the US used to revive the economy of Europe after the war, including Germany.

But the igbo man has been marginalized since after the war.
The gains made by igbos so far has been Because of there God given resilience and grit.
If not those God given ability to the igbo man. He would have been in shambles.
Except that God has been with the igbo man.

That's what the younger generation have seen and become restless.
If God has not been with the igbo man, he would have been a lost cause.

The igbo nation of a highly complex developed society will still come to be.

What would you then say about the Rwandas? They have gone out of sulking and hating and within 25 years,they have even done better than some African countries.It is more than 50 years now and you are still sulking about a war that was inadvertently caused by the Igbos because all the very important leaders of the other ethnic groups were killed.

Grayoso:
I just feel so sorry for you Igbos. Nothing you will not try to use, however miniscule or meaningless, to try and gain some form of sentimental victory over Yorubas every second , minute and day because you can never get over the feeling of being humiliated losers of the civil war. We all know you blame Yorubas most for that loss.

The Germans lost the war and moved on to be better people who learned to shun extremism and madmen. They knew and accepted they began a needless war that caused misery and devastation to themselves and others because they blindly followed the mad man Adolf Hitler.
Germans, because they learned the right lessons from their war loss, turnes defeat into victory and great success.

Not so for petty and hateful Igbos. After harming yourselves following crazy Ojukwu, you remain wicked, without remorse, hateful and always committed to following one lunatic or the other be it Kanu, Abacha, FFK, Kemi Olunloyo etal because of your vengeful heart and dedication to getting even with Yorubas and Nigerians.

This, to you people, is another 'victory'. Marriage between a Yoruba man and an Igbo woman. Keep celebrating this 'victory' and others like it. Doing so merely shows that the Igbos will always be small-minded losers who will never conquer mental scars to be a respected people of destiny as the Germans turned things around to become.

Only God can melt Igbos' minds especially against the Yorubas who have tried everything to accommodate them.

OndoFirstBorn:
How has the 'Afonjas' maltreated you for you to now want them to regret it? The same 'Afonjas' that have allowed you to dominate their lands over the years? Please don't be an ingrate. Let's continue to promote one Nigeria.

Yes,Igbos from Osuland dominate Afonjas by hawking gala all over Yorubaland.

Great

Justiceleague1:
Hmmm so we have your type in yoruba land!!!
Ahhh God bless you o

God bless you,sir.

TripleOh7:
Beg Akintola? Why should he be begged? For what?

The day his head will be shaved and he will be dragged naked before the shrine of Èṣù Láaróyè is minus one today.

It's obvious that he's a saboteur and he will be treated like one.

Ìgbẹ̀yìn irúu wọn kò kí n da.

Let him ask Afonja.

Funny enough, the man is from Kwara state.

I learnt that he is from Ife like FFK.They are both extremists, if I may say so.

Wolgrace:
It is evidently clear that MURIC is a Northern-Fulani jihadist sword, conduit, and mole in the southwest to destabilise the region in the sole interest of the North, not even islam..

-Yoruba muslims are unintelligent set of people..

May god forgive you.

I think the only thing left to do is beg this Akintola.Everybody knows that Amotekun was created when insecurity was going over the bend in the SW.

This unapologetically Fulani messenger did everything to truncate it but God was above him.

A sane person knows that he would not stop but Allah will defeat him and his ulterior motives.

Pls,Prof Akintola,let Amotekun be...pls.
We Muslims support and endorse it and we are also prepared for secession if Nigeria continues to go down.


Akintola was talking about the olden days when there were intertribal wars.

Pls,tell him that the Hausas too had intertribal wars,the Igbos had intertribal and clans scuffles, the Chinese had,the Britons had etc but all of them are living as one now.There is bound to be misunderstandings but the world has left behind going to war incessantly as it was done then.

Pls,Prof Akintola,do not destroy Yorubaland with your obsession or support for anything Buhari.I also voted for him in 2015 but home is home,pls.


I am more Alfa than Akintola and I and millions of Muslims support Amotekun,peace and progress for Nigeria and its different tribes.

If it is secession that will make everybody have the growth and peace of mind that we seek, so be it.

Pls Akintola,pls,let the sleeping dog lie.

ogbuefi677:
Afonja muslims, leave Nnamdi Kanu threads,come here and discuss d gradual takeover of Yoruba land by terrorist herdsmen.
The zoo army didn't shed any Igbo blood as you all prayed for,I want to see you headslammers raise this topic to 15 pages with meaningful discussions,yesterday it was Ogun,today Ekiti.
Ametokun has been watered down by your hausa/Fulani slave masters,they said it's community policing now.
Afonja muslims, its time to react.

Eschew hatred, pls.

Amotekun stays.Some criminals are jittery because of amotekun.
All Yorubas either Muslims , Christians or any other religion home and abroad support amotekun.
It will protect all non indigenes in the SW including Malami,Adamu and the Fulanis provided they are not criminals Only the guilty are afraid.Amotekun will be the best security outfit in the world.

The Miyetti Allah people,Fulani are still wailing through the IGP.The SWesterners have backed Amotekun with law,though in different states,there will be synergy among them.Amotekun stays and it will be regional.Some criminals are jittery because of amotekun.
All Yorubas either Muslims , Christians or any other religion home and abroad support amotekun.
It will protect all non indigenes in the SW including Malami,Adamu and the Fulanis provided they are not criminals Only the guilty is afraid.
Amotekun will be the best security outfit in the world.

[quote author=HallaDaTruth post=86385015][/quote]Anybody who kills will go to hell.Boko Haram,The Crusaders etc will go to hell unless they seek for forgiveness before their demise.
We should try to be good citizens.
The 2 most popular religions......Islam and Christian...both have commands to kill for God in their Holy books .....it is the way of the Almighty Allah,Jehovah until it was weakened in the Quran with the verse.....NO COMPULSION IN RELIGION....


BOTH CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM HAVE EXTREMISTS WITH ISLAMIC EXTRRMISTS BEEN IN HIGHER NUMBERS IN RECENT TIMES WHICH A LOT OF PEOPLE BELEIVE IS BEING STOKED WORLWIDE BY AMERICA'S TRAINING OF MOST OF THESE TERRORISTS.

One of the world greatest terrorists were the christian crusaders and the christian terrorists that burnt a lot of people calling them witches.

FEW RECENT CHRISTIAN TERRORISTS INCLUDE:


1. Brenton Harrison Tarrant

The most obvious recent case is Brenton Harrison Tarrant. He’s been charged with a March 2019 attack in New Zealand, in which at least fifty Muslims were murdered during prayers, and detailed his reasonings in a manifesto. They include allusions to U.S. President Donald Trump (“a symbol of renewed white identity and common purpose”), an intent to have a political effect, and his beliefs. He said the question of whether he is a Christian is ‘complicated,’ but also expressed unity with what he seemed to see as a Christian cause, quoting Pope Urban II’s call for crusades: “Let our lives be stronger than death to fight against the enemies of the Christian people.”



2. Robert Doggart

In April 2015, Robert Doggart, a one-time congressional candidate and self-proclaimed Christian minister, was arrested and charged for plotting to attack a mosque and school, and kill Muslims.The Gospel Herald shared Doggert’s own description of his intent, lauding his armor-piercing rounds and boasting a willingness to “cut ‘victims’ to shreds” with a machete.



3. Paul Jennings Hill

In July 1994, former Presbyterian minister Paul Jennings Hill approached Pensecola Ladies Center, where Dr. John Bayard Britton was just arriving. Hill opened fire, first murdering the man who had driven Dr. Britton to the hospital, James Barrett, then the doctor himself.truck. He also injured June Barrett, who was also in the vehicle. The New York Times reported that upon his execution, supporters declared Hill a martyr. CBS reported that in an interview before his execution, he boasted that he expects rewards in heaven, and expressed a hope more will follow in his actions.


4. Eric Rudolph

According to CNN, the first bomb Rudolph set was at the Summer Games in Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta in July 1996. He would go on to set bombs at two abortion clinics and a lesbian nightclub before being caught and charged. He has been connected to the Christian Identity movement, and a profile by Blue Ridge Outdoors describes his fear that politicians were planning to throw Christians, including him, in concentration camps.


5. Scott Phillip Roeder

In May 2009, George Tiller, a doctor who performed legal abortions past the 21-week gestation mark, was serving as an usher in his church when Scott Roeder entered and shot him in the head. The Guardian reports that Tiller had been the subject of such attacks previously, when he had been shot in the arms and his clinic had been bombed. Roeder told the jury that he had become a Christian while watching The 700 Club, and had wanted to kill Tiller since shortly after that conversion.

6 Rachelle “Shelley” Shannon

Shelley Shannon was one of those who previously carried out a (failed or nonfatal) attack on George Tiller. She shot him in 1993, as well as carrying out other attacks on clinics where abortions were performed. She spent 25 years imprisoned for her crimes, and upon her release in November 2018, the Kansas City Star reports that clinics took extra security precautions. She reportedly took visitors in prison who are known for the political position that murder of abortion providers is justified, and has been credited as inspiration for attacks by others.

7. James Charles Kopp

Kopp was convicted in 2002 of the 1998 murder of Dr. Barnett Slepian. According to CBS, he maintained that he was innocent of murder, both on the grounds that he meant only to injure, and the grounds that he was saving children by ‘separat[ing] murderers from their weapons of mass destruction.” He’s also suspected of shooting four other abortion providers over a three-year period from 1994 to 1997.


8. Robert Lewis Dear

In 2015, Robert Dear entered a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado and opened fire, killing three people and injuring another nine. The New York Times quoted his ex-wife, who described Dear as “very evangelical,” and “obsessed with the world coming to an end,” as well as describing a belief that he could do what he wanted, as long as he could be divinely forgiven. Documents showed his religious rhetoric, such as an exhortion online to “turn to Jesus or burn in hell,” and praise of other attacks on doctors who perform abortions, calling the violence “God’s work.”

9. Larry McQuilliams

A member of a Christian Identity group called Phineas Priesthood, Larry McQuilliams went on a November 2014 rampage, firing shots on multiple targets in Austin, Texas, including the police department, the Mexican Consulate, and a federal courthouse. He also attempted to set the Mexican consulate on fire, and a map found in his home identified a total of 34 intended targets. He was shot and killed by a police officer, ending his attack. In the van he used to carry out the attack, police found a Phineas Priesthood booklet praising Christian vigilantism. Friends said that McQuilliams had blamed immigrants for his inability to obtain employment.

chubinwa:
I still posits that there is no Christian terrorists in the world. Even if he is a Christian, he was actually induced by the Islamic terrorists to carry out such failed dastard act. Perhaps, everything looks fictional just to divert the attention of the masses

May God save us.There are both Christian and Muslim terrorists but Muslim's is rampant in recent times.

Empiree:
If Amotekun is gonna be religious card it is rather be scrapped

This Fulani man again.You have been going from thread to thread writing gibberish.Desist or you see the wrath of Allah.
Some criminals are jittery because of amotekun.
All Yorubas either Muslims , Christians or any other religion home and abroad support amotekun.
It will protect all non indigenes in the SW including Ishaq Akintola and the Fulanis provided they are not criminals Only the guilty are afraid.There is 'Qaswarah' in Surat Mudathir in the Quran and it means Lion or Leopard...a beast of prey.

Muric is a Fulaniman.There are a few like them that bear Yoruba names and act as spoilers.
Amotekun stays,no matter his wailing.Only a criminal reads negative meanings to laudable projects.I am more Muslim than he is.

M

kayfra:
Is that why they are the poverty capital of the entire world? You are celebrating income inequality and terrible outcomes for the entire group that are average destitutes with 80% extreme poverty. Picking a few rich folks while the majority rot away with religion used to bait them is nothing to be proud of.

Quality of life is the worst in the entire world

Fulanimafia is a funny man,indeed. Fulanis are lucky to have conquered Hausas who are a large major group in Nigeria thereby using them to hold Nigeria by the throat.Hausas will wake up one day that a real Muslim does not kill and this is what the Fulanis have been doing all over Nigeria.The truth is
that the Fulanis might not have the capabilities to grow a nation due to their overwhelming love for their ethnic group only and the love of dominating others which is a negative attitude that creates hatred in the mind of others.
Dangote and BUA though good men,were helped by the govt. Remove the almost monopoly and you will see their weaknesses unlike Yorubas and Igbos who have proven to be real developers of resources, human or material.

The South has many businesses owned by Southerners in Nigeria and abroad which the Fulanis or Hausas cannot boast of.



Southerners have attained very high status abroad without quota system.


During regionalism,the South was the most developed part of Nigeria and the richest even till date.


The Fulanis have consistently use religion to bamboozle a lot of Muslims in Nigeria but people especially Yorubas have come to agree that they are not real Muslims because Muslims do not kill.You go into a farm which the owner had sweated for...he might have taken a loan worth millions....and you,Fulanis destroy the farm in a twinkle of an eye and also decimate the owner if he complains.This is very devilish.

e have done a lot of orientation for those who are not versed in Islamic /Arabic Education that killers are not Muslims.
These are some lectura notes....
If anybody either Muslims or Christian support any killer in Yorubaland including MURIC,the person or group will be decisively negatively dealt with.

Amotekun stays.Some criminals are jittery because of amotekun.
All Yorubas either Muslims , Christians or any other religion home and abroad support amotekun.
It will protect all non indigenes in the SW including Malami,Adamu and the Fulanis provided they are not criminals Only the guilty are afraid.

Amotekun stays and it will be regional.Rhetoric, rethoric.....

SLAP44:
It's a victory for all peace loving people.

Don't mind him.He is a bigot.
Only the guilty is afraid of amotekun.

A very good development.

Some criminals are jittery because of amotekun.
All Yorubas either Muslims , Christians or any other religion home and abroad support amotekun.
It will protect all non indigenes in the SW including Yakassai and the Fulanis provided they are not criminals Only the guilty are afraid.

Tajbol4splend:
Amotekun is going to stay we don't audio-do like those people craving for something and never getting it even after 50 years

Shut up.Bigot.You are a Fulani.

Amotekun stays.Only the criminals are jittery and shivering.Amotekun lives.

I am sorry but we should eschew tribalism and revisionism.Some people even lied that an Igbo man was the first rector of Yabatech

Let us love one another.Love your neighbour as yourself.

The song's subject matter should not be against Islam's teachings. For example, if the song praises wine and invites people to drink, singing or listening to it is haram. It also must not stir up pessimism and despair.
Although the subject matter may not be against Islamic teachings, the way of singing (e.g., bodily movements that stir up lust or impulses to commit haram acts) may render it haram.
Islam opposes excess and extravagance in anything, so it cannot tolerate excessive involvement with entertainment. Too much time should not be wasted in such activities.
Each individual is the best judge of oneself. If a certain type of singing arouses one's passions, leads one toward sin, excites the animal instincts, and dulls spirituality, one must avoid it so that he or she will not cave into temptation.
There is unanimous agreement that if singing is done in conjunction with haram activities like attending a drinking party, or if it is mixed with obscenity and sin, it is haram.
Gambling, the Companion of Drinking. While permitting a variety of games and sports, Islam prohibits any game that involves betting (e.g., has an element of gambling). Muslims cannot seek relaxation and recreation in, or acquire money by, gambling.

The Qur'an mentions drinking and gambling together (5:90-91), since their harmful effects on the individual, family, and society are very similar. What is more like alcoholism than an addiction to gambling? This is why one usually is not found without the other. The Qur'an is absolutely right when it teaches us that both drinking and gambling are inspired by Satan, that they are akin to idolatry and divining by arrows, and that they are abominable habits that must be shunned.

The Lottery. Lotteries and raffles are also forms of gambling. There should be no laxity or permissiveness toward them in the name of "charitable institutions" or "humanitarian causes."

Movies. Movies may be regarded as permissible if the following conditions are met:

The content must be free of sin and immorality – indeed, of anything that is against Islamic beliefs, morals, and manners. Portrayals that excite sexual desire or greed, glorify crime, or propagate deviant ideas, false beliefs, and the like are not permissible, and Muslims cannot watch or encourage them.
Watching movies should not result in the neglect of religious obligations or worldly responsibilities.
Physical intermingling and free mixing among men and women in movie theatres must be avoided in order to prevent sexual undertones and temptation.

Useful Information

Gold and Silver Utensils. In accordance with what has been stated above, Islam has forbidden the use of gold and silver utensils and pure silk spreads.

Commemorating Great People. Islam abhors any excessive glorification of people, no matter how "great" they may be or whether they are living or dead. The Messenger, upon him be peace and blessings, also gave similar warnings. For example, he said: "Do not glorify me in the same manner as the Christians glorify Jesus, son of Mary, but say: 'He is a servant of God and His Messenger."

A religion who views even the Messenger of God in such a light is one of such moderation that it cannot tolerate the erecting of idollike statues for some individuals, so that people may point to them with admiration and esteem. Many pretenders to greatness and selfproclaimed makers of history have slipped into the hall of fame through this open door, since those who are able to do so erects statues or monuments to themselves, or let their admirers do so, so that people do not appreciate those who are truly great.

Children's Toys. Children's toys in the form of human beings, animals, and the like are allowed in Islam.
Keeping Dogs without Necessity. Keeping dogs inside the house as pets was forbidden by the Messenger. Dogs kept for a purpose (e.g., hunting or guarding cattle or crops) are allowed.

Condemned Industries and Professions. Islam has forbidden certain professions and industries because they are harmful to society's beliefs, morals, honor, or good manners. Some of these are prostitution, erotic arts, and manufacturing intoxicants and drugs.

Other Activities

Illicit Sexual Intercourse. All revealed religions have forbidden and fought against fornication and adultery (zina). Islam, the last of the Divinely revealed religions, is very strict in prohibiting zina, for it leads to confusion of lineage, child abuse, family breakups, bitterness in relationships, the spread of venereal diseases, and a general laxity in morals. Moreover, it opens the door to a flood of lusts and selfgratifications.

When Islam prohibits something, it closes all the avenues of approach to it. This is achieved by prohibiting every step and every means leading to what is haram. Accordingly, whatever excites passions, opens ways for illicit sexual relations between a man and a woman, and promotes indecency and obscenity is haram.

Superstitions and Myths. Soothsayers or diviners existed in Arab society during the Messenger's time. They deceived people by pretending to reveal information about past and future events through their contact with jinn or other secret sources. The Messenger struggled against this deception, which had no basis in knowledge, Divine guidance, or a revealed Scripture. For the same reason, divination with arrows and making decisions based upon what is observed in sand, seashells, tea leaves, cards, and palms, as well as fortunetelling by cards and similar methods, are all forbidden.

Magic. Islam also condemns magic and those who practice it. God's Messenger, upon him be peace and blessings, counted the practice of magic among those major deadly sins that destroy nations before destroying individuals, and that degrade those who practice them. Some jurists consider magic as unbelief (kufr) or as leading toward unbelief.

Omens. Drawing evil omens from certain articles, places, times, individuals, and the like was, and still is, a current superstition.

Relaxing the Mind. Following the Messenger's example, his noble and pure Companions relaxed their bodies and minds. 'Ali ibn Abi Talib said: "Minds get tired, as do bodies, so treat them with humor," and "Refresh your minds from time to time, for a tired mind becomes blind." Abu al-Darda said: "I entertain my heart with something trivial in order to make it stronger in the service of the truth."

Thus, there is no harm if Muslims entertain themselves to relax their mind or refresh themselves with some permissible sport or activity. However, the pursuit of pleasure should not become the goal of their life so that they devote themselves to it, forgetting one's religious obligations. Nor should one joke about serious matters. It has been aptly said: "Season your conversation with humor in the same proportion as you season your food with salt."

Muslims are forbidden to joke and laugh about other people's values and honor. Such sports and games as foot racing, archery, spear play, and swimming are permissible.

Singing and Music. Among the entertainments that may comfort the soul, please the heart, and refresh the ear is singing. Islam permits singing. In order to create an atmosphere of joy and happiness, it is recommended on such festive occasions as the 'Iyd days, weddings and wedding feasts, births, and 'aqiqat (thanksgiving to God for the birth of a baby by sacrificing sheep). However, there are some limitations placed upon singing:

The Consumption of Tobacco and Other Harmful Things. A general Islamic rule is that it is haram to eat or drink anything that may cause death, either quickly or gradually, such as poison or substances that injure one's health or harm one's body. Thus, if tobacco or another substance is proven to harm one's health, it is haram, especially if a physician has told the patient to quit smoking. Even if it were not injurious to one's health, it is still a waste of money and brings no religious or secular benefit, and the Messenger forbade wasting one's property. This becomes more serious when the money spent on such items is needed to support oneself and one's family.

Clothing and Adornment

From the Islamic point of view, clothing has two purposes: to cover the body and to beautify the appearance. God Almighty counts His bestowal of clothing and adornment upon human beings as one of His favors to humanity: O children of Adam! Verily, We have bestowed upon you clothing to cover your shame as well as to be an adornment to you (7:26).

Before dealing with questions of adornment and good appearance, Islam addressed itself in considerable depth to the question of cleanliness, for cleanliness is the essence of good appearance and the beauty of every adornment.

Gold Ornaments and Pure Silk Clothing. Islam forbids gold ornaments and clothing of pure silk to men, but permits them to women.

Women's Clothing. Islam makes it haram for women to wear clothes that do not cover the body, that are transparent, and that are so tight fitting that they delineate the parts of the body, especially those that are sexually attractive.

Dressing for Ostentation and Pride. The general rule for enjoying life's good things (e.g., food, drink, and clothing) is that they should be enjoyed without extravagance or pride. Extravagance consists of exceeding the limits of what is beneficial in the use of the halal, while pride is something related to the intention and the heart rather than to what is apparent. Pride is defined as the intention to look superior and above others, and God does not love any proud boaster (57:23). In order to avoid even the suspicion of pride, the Messenger forbade garments of "fame" (i.e., clothes worn to impress others and that generate competition in vain and idle pursuits).

Going to Extremes in Beautification. Islam denounces such excesses in beautifying oneself that require altering one's physical features as God has created them. The Qur'an considers such alterations as inspired by Satan, who will command them (his devotees) to change what Allah has created (4:119).

Items Related to Luxurious Living and Paganism. Muslims may adorn their houses with flowers, decorated fabrics, and other permitted ornamental objects. They are free to desire beauty in their homes and elegance in clothing. However, Islam disapproves of excess, and the Messenger did not like Muslims to fill their houses with luxurious and extravagant items or items related to paganism, for Islam has condemned luxury, extravagance, and paganism.

Medical Necessity

Jurists differ over whether some of the forbidden food substances can be used as medicine. Some do not classify medicine as a "compelling necessity" like food based upon the following hadith: "Assuredly God did not provide a cure for you in what He has forbidden to you." Others consider the need for medicine equal to that of food, for both are necessary for preserving life. However, they maintain that any medicine containing a haram substance is permissible only under the following conditions: If the patient's life is endangered if the medicine is not taken; if there is no entirely halal alternative or substitute medication available; and if the medication is prescribed by a Muslim physician who is both knowledgeable and God-conscious.

Hunting and Game Animals

For game animals to be lawful, the hunter must be a Muslim or a member of the People of the Book. A Muslim cannot hunt while in the state of ihram.
The hunter should not hunt merely for sport, meaning that he or she kills animals but has no intention to eat them or to otherwise benefit from them.
The weapon should pierce the animal's body, making a wound, for death by impact (e.g., hitting a deer with a car) does not make it halal.
The hunter must say Bismi'llah when hurling or striking with the weapon, or dispatching the hunting animal.
If a dog, a falcon, or a similar animal is used, it should be a trained animal and catch the game animal only for its owner.
Intoxicants

Khamr, translated as intoxicants, signifies any alcoholic drink that causes intoxication. Humanity has been afflicted with no greater calamity than alcohol. If statistics were collected worldwide of all the patients in hospitals who, due to alcohol, suffer from mental disorders, delirium tremens, nervous breakdowns, and digestive ailments and added to those collected worldwide regarding the suicides, homicides, bankruptcies, sales of properties, and broken homes related to alcohol consumption, the number of such cases would be so staggering that, in comparison, all exhortation and preaching against it would seem too little.

Whatever Intoxicates Is Haram. The first declaration made by the Messenger concerning this matter was that wine is forbidden and that khamr means any substance which intoxicates, in whatever form or under whatever name it may appear. Thus, beer and similar drinks are haram. When the Messenger was asked about certain drinks made from honey, corn, or barley by the process of fermentation until they became alcoholic, he replied succinctly: "Every intoxicant is khamr, and every khamr is haram."

Whatever Intoxicates in Large Amounts Is Haram in Any Amount. Islam takes an uncompromising stand in prohibiting intoxicants, regardless of whether the amount is little or much. If an individual is permitted to take just one step down this road, other steps follow. The person starts walking and then running, and does not stop at any stage. This is why the Messenger said: "Of that which intoxicates in a large amount, a small amount is haram."

Trading in Alcohol. The Messenger forbade any trading in alcohol, even with non-Muslims.
Drugs or "Khamr Is What Befogs the Mind." 'Umar ibn al-Khattab declared from the Messenger's pulpit, that "khamr is what befogs the mind," thus providing us with a decisive criterion for classifying items as khamr. There is no room for any uncertainty, for any substance that befogs or clouds the mind, as well as impairs its faculties of thought, perception, and discernment, is forbidden by God and His Messenger until the Day of Resurrection. This definitely includes such drugs as marijuana, cocaine, and opium.

When Muslims perform a permissible action along with a good intention, the action becomes an act of worship. But the case of the haram is entirely different: It remains haram no matter how good the intention, how honorable the purpose, or how lofty the aim may be. Islam can never consent to employing a haram means to achieve a praiseworthy end. Indeed, it insists that both the aim and the means chosen to attain it must be honorable and pure. "The end justifies the means" has no place in Islam.

It is God's mercy to people that He did not leave them in ignorance concerning what is lawful and forbidden. Indeed, He has made these matters very clear. Accordingly, one may do what is lawful and must avoid what is forbidden insofar as one has the choice to do so. However, there is a gray area of doubt between the clearly halal and the clearly haram. Some people may not be able to decide whether a particular matter is permissible or forbidden, either because of doubtful evidence or of doubt concerning the text's applicability to the circumstance or matter in question. In such cases, Islam considers it an act of piety to avoid doing what is doubtful in order to stay clear of doing something haram.

In Islam, the haram has universal applicability, for that which is forbidden to a non-Arab cannot be permitted to an Arab, or that is restricted for a black person cannot be allowed to a white person. Islam contains no privileged classes or individuals who, in the name of religion, can do whatever they please according to their whims. No Muslim can forbid something to others but allow it for himself or herself, for God is the Lord of all and Islam is the guide for all. Whatever God has legislated through the religion He has sent for humanity is lawful for all people, and whatever He has forbidden is forbidden to all people until the Day of Resurrection.

Eating and Drinking

The following products are definitely lawful: Milk (from cows, sheep, and goats), honey, fish, plants that do not intoxicate, fresh or naturally frozen vegetables, fresh or dried fruits; legumes and nuts (e.g., peanuts, cashew nuts, hazel nuts, walnuts), and grains (e.g., wheat, rice, rye, barley, oats). Such animals as cows, sheep, goats, deer, geese, chickens, ducks, and game birds are lawful, but they must be sacrificed according to Islamic rites before being eaten.

Sacrificing animals in the Islamic manner (zabiha) and following Islam's dietary rules are excellent ways to avoid certain diseases. Sacrificing is done to ensure the meat's quality and to avoid any microbial contamination. Lawful animals must be offered in such a way that all of the blood is drained from the animal's body.
The Islamic method of sacrificing an animal is to cut its throat, so that the blood runs out and does not congeal in the veins. Thus, animals that have been strangled, beaten to death, or died in a fight or accident cannot be eaten. One who sacrifices the animal must be a mature sane Muslim, who sacrifices it while reciting Bismi'llah (In God's Name) with a sharp device and without severing it. The animal must be completely dead before it is skinned.

A product is considered haram if it has any contact with, or contains anything from:

Pigs, dogs, donkeys, and carnivorous animals (e.g., bears and lions).
Reptiles and insects that are considered ugly or filthy (e.g., worms, lice, flies, and cockroaches).
Animals killed by strangulation, a blow to the head (clubbing), a headlong fall, natural causes (carrion), or being gored or attacked by another animal. Fish are exempted from this class. When the Messenger was asked about the sea, he replied: "Its water is pure and its dead are halal."
All animals, except fish, that are not sacrificed according to Islamic rules.
Alcohol, harmful substances, and poisonous and intoxicating plants or drinks (e.g., hashish, opium, and contemporary drugs, whether natural or chemical).
Animals with protruding canine teeth (e.g., monkeys, and cats, lions).
Amphibians (e.g., frogs, crocodiles, and turtles).
Animals slaughtered for worship of, or in the name of, that which is not God.
Scorpions, centipedes, rats, and similar animals.
Animals that are forbidden to be killed (e.g., bees).
Birds with talons (e.g., owls and eagles).
Any meat that has been cut off of a live animal.
Blood.
Animals won in a bet or a game of chance.
Food additives whose raw materials are forbidden and produced through a process incompatible with Islam.
Such impurities as dogs and pigs, alcohol, dead bodies not killed according to Islamic principles (except fish), blood, human and animal urine and waste matter, parts obtained from stillliving animals (except for wool, hair, horns, and so on), and the milk of animals that cannot be eaten (e.g., donkeys, cats, and pigs).

ghettokid1:
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A lot of us do not know that snake is forbidden to be eaten in Islam.Do you?