{"id":1915,"date":"2004-08-09T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-09T06:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/?p=1915"},"modified":"2004-08-09T01:05:00","modified_gmt":"2004-08-09T06:05:00","slug":"too_small_to_matter_low_alcohol_drinks_oked_in_britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2004\/08\/too_small_to_matter_low_alcohol_drinks_oked_in_britain\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslims in the West: Too small to matter? Low alcohol drinks OK&#8217;ed in Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altmuslim.com\/ee_images\/alcohol_softdrink.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"right\">\n<div class=\"caption\">99 bottles of\u2026<\/div>\n<p><\/p><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>This just in:  It\u2019s OK for Muslims to drink alcohol and eat pork.  The caveat:  only in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.islam-online.net%2FEnglish%2FNews%2F2004-08%2F03%2Farticle04.shtml\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">small quantities<\/a>.  Until recently, many Muslims and Islamic scholars had taken a \u201czero tolerance\u201d approach to the issue, which made life difficult for many Muslims, who found that even ordinary soft drinks would have a minute, yet detectible amount of alcohol and\/or gelatin (which can be derived from pigs) in it.  But a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk%2F2%2Fhi%2Fuk_news%2F3527724.stm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">recent ruling<\/a> by the UK Muslim Law Council, which is Britain\u2019s highest authority on what is halal and what isn\u2019t, said that there are amounts that are too small to matter.  \u201cI see no harm in consuming Ribena and Lucozade (popular British juice and energy drinks),\u201d wrote Council chair Zaki Badawi, \u201cwhich contain traces of ethyl alcohol and animal ingredients that do not bear their original qualities and do not change the taste, colour or smell of the product.\u201d  Badawi cited the documented practice of the Prophet Muhammad of soaking raisins and dates in water and drinking the result after three days.  (No word yet on whether the ruling exonerates <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fact-index.com%2Fn%2Fno%2Fnon_alcoholic_beer.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">non-alcoholic beer<\/a> and its trace amounts of alcohol.)  More significantly, however, is the part of the ruling which allows drinks containing animal gelatin \u2013 which has been a major <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifanca.org%2Ffaq%2Fgelatin.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">bugaboo<\/a> for Muslims and has resulted in a cottage industry of halal Jell-O knockoffs and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ziyad.com%2Fhalal_choice_marshmallows.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">marshmallows<\/a>.  \u201cBecause even if [the gelatin] is made from <i>haram<\/i> meat it has undergone fundamental process of transformation through certain chemical changes that is called \u2018istihalah\u2019 in Islamic law,\u201d wrote Dr. Nazih Hammad, a member of the Islamic Fiqh Academy and Fiqh Council of North America.  So on your next Muslim camping trip, feel free to toast <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cooks.com%2Frec%2Fsearch%2F0%2C1-0%2Chow_to_make_smores%2CFF.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Smores<\/a> by an open fire with a cold <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ratebeer.com%2FRatings%2FBeer%2FBeer-Ratings.asp%3FBeerID%3D5531%26FanOfID%3D9659\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">O\u2019Douls<\/a> in your other hand.<\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Zahed Amanullah is associate editor of altmuslim.com.\u00a0 He is based in London, England.\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new legal ruling in the UK says that gelatin and tiny amounts of alcohol are OK for Muslims to eat, despite years of common belief that said otherwise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":531,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-briefings"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Muslims in the West: Too small to matter? 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