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Pork, as a frequent guest on the table of ordinary people, is on the Islamic ban list, this contrast in status does make people very curious, why do Muslims choose not to eat pork? In fact, there are complex historical origins.
First of all, Islam has an indisputable canonical text, the Quran, and the prohibition of eating pork is clearly stated above, but the expression of the Qur'an is obscure to normal people and needs to be interpreted in more straightforward language.
Generally speaking, the origin of Islam is regarded as the Semui ethnic group, because of the ancient wars, they continued to divide and immigrate, came to live in different regions, and now become Jews, Arabs, etc., but the difference in geographical location does not mean cultural separation.
In other words, the people who migrated from the Sem settlements to other parts of the country still retain the habits of the past, which are passed down by word of mouth to the next generation, but their teachings have been updated due to the changing times.
The first is that because the missionaries of the past wanted to expand their reach, they lowered the restrictions on food, so that when believers were really unable to survive because of hunger, they could be forgiven, which made more people willing to convert to Islam.
The second is because the original doctrine is indeed relatively indifferent to the Sem people, their ancestral land is the Arabian Peninsula, mainly desert areas, there are too many difficulties in raising pigs, so when it comes to meat, it is cattle, horses and sheep, etc., at most camels.
Most of the time, these people are herders, they migrate with the climate, and pigs are not suitable for this type of breeding, so the early Islamic believers saw wild boars the most, and there was basically no effect on whether to eat or not.
After all, pork had many problems for the people at that time, such as poor breeding, the climate did not allow it, the place of residence was not fixed, and the wild boar was not clean.
After all, pigs do not have sweat glands, and they tend to use methods such as rolling in the mud to cool down, and the result is that earlier believers misunderstood pigs as unclean animals and therefore forbade their consumption, and this customary idea was even listed separately.
We can see from Islamic teachings that, apart from pork, only meat that has died unnaturally and whose blood is not slaughtered without praising Allah is required for health reasons.
This was still a common doctrine in the time period around the Middle Ages, for example, Christianity also had a requirement to prohibit the consumption of dead things, you know, the authors of the New Testament themselves advocated the idea that religion does not restrict food because of faith, and basically does not fast.
At that time, Christianity, as a worldwide denomination, had room to point out that religious administrators had similar thinking, and in general, religion at that time was regarded as spiritual sustenance, and there were also situations in which divine power was greater than military power.
In order to maintain its own status, religion should consider the safety of its followers, and another consideration is to increase the threshold for religious participation, after all, the promotion of religious status has made many people who do not believe in Allah join in with strange intentions.
However, with this rule of fasting, it can increase the sense of identity, which is a means of strengthening the cohesion of early Islam, but with the changes of the times, the Islamic doctrine of abstaining from eating pork has gradually divided into various factions.
The first is China's western provinces, where the geography is mostly arid or semi-arid, which is also unsuitable for pig breeding, but the prosperity of the trade market has allowed the people of the west to buy a lot of pork products, thus shaking the foundation of the teachings.
In reality, because the people in these areas did not rely on pork as their main meat in the past, they had little influence, but some of the devotees who deviated from it interpreted the Qur'an to the outside world, and those who did not go too far should be forgiven by the Lord.
As for the Islamists in more remote areas, such as Kazakhstan and other places, they also have more nomadic people, and their religious awareness is not very high, but they try to avoid eating pork, but they do not demand too much from others.
The main reason for this situation is that the rapid pace of modern development has led to the untimely updating of Islamic teachings, for example, meat products made by the assembly lines of food processing factories do not meet the standards for slaughtering meat in the name of Allah.
From this point of view, it is obviously impractical for Muslims not to buy meat in stores and other places, so there is a certain sense of separation between the believers and the teachings, but there are still Muslim groups who insist on abstaining from eating pork.
They take great care to avoid pork in their daily lives, and even throw away the plates that come into contact with pork, and they believe that the abstinence from eating pork is from Islamic orthodoxy, so they can show their piety in this way.
As far as the followers of Islam are concerned, devotion to the Lord has a considerable degree of sacredness, and if there is a deviation from the doctrine, it will not be able to obtain the approval of the Lord, which is naturally the result of the unacceptable results of the believers of Islam, so the evolution of its doctrine is very complicated.
According to the Quran, rumination and hoofing are important criteria for Islam to determine whether they can be eaten, and many settled Islamists in Chinese mainland mark horses, donkeys and other animals as forbidden according to this standard.
In the course of the spread of Islam, there were even cases where marrying a Muslim woman had to wash the stomach to restore one's purity, which led to the later people to consider whether or not to eat pork as the key to distinguishing believers, but in reality, it is very different now.
Although Chinese Muslims were imported from abroad, they have basically become a relatively conservative Muslim group in the international community, after all, the Muslims in the Middle East will not react to the incident of encountering pork in restaurants as a matter of course.
From this point of view, some of the congregations in China are more traditional, but, as we said above, the development of the times has led to more and more food that does not recite the name of Allah, and the spread of Islam has become a problem, and it must be kept up with the times.
Whether or not to set a threshold for food may be the difference between Islam and Christianity, and from the perspective of an ordinary person, it may be difficult to understand the starting point of choosing fasting, especially for areas with developed pork farming.
Resources:
Why don't Muslims eat pork丨China Islamic Association