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A lot of us have seen the word “halal” on food marks and eateries, but not all of us know what it really means. Our Muslim brothers and sisters depend their choice on this term because it indicates what is permissible for them to purchase or consume. For a country that has inhabitants with mixed religious affiliations, that term is just as critical.

Muslims in Islamic nations don’t have problems eating in halal eateries and picking up halal products as most likely than not, they are halal-certified. But for those who are in nations that have various religious groups, the term is not as rampant as they would like. Good thing that more establishments are now becoming conscious of their customer’s preferences.

The word halal simply means legal, which implies that if an eatery declares they are halal-certified or a food product has this term on its tag, the preparation of their items is in accordance with the Islamic law. Muslims, therefore, are permitted to use or consume the product.

So what is allowed in Islamic law? There are a number of guidelines, but let’s start with how a meat should be prepared. An animal should be butchered by cutting its windpipe and gullet quickly. This method of ritual slaughter is believed to kill instantaneously and painlessly.

And because there are halal or permitted items, there are also haraam or forbidden products. To start with, Muslims are prohibited to eat pork and take intoxicants. So a product or a restaurant must not use those ingredients to their menu. There should also be no contamination of the items, meaning, if a knife has been used to cut a pork meal, it should not be used anymore to prepare a halal-approved item.

Haraam items also comprise of blood, birds of prey or carnivores, animals butchered in the name of anyone but Allah, corpse of an animal, or those that have been dedicated to another deity.

There are Muslim groups who state food products as halal and give halal authentication to establishments. Products that have halal authentication are the ingredients used by halal establishments to make sure that they observe the Islamic dietary law rigorously.

Today, more and more food establishments not run by Muslims still make great effort to abide Islamic dietary laws. Those food establishments show that they honor and respect all their consumers, regardless of their religious preferences.

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