What is Halal?
Halal is an Arabic words which mean permitted or lawful. Things or actions permitted by Shariah law without punishment imposed on the doer.

According to Islamic Shariah law, Holy Quraan & Ahadiths, and the Malaysian Halal standards MS1500:2009 Guidelines, Halal food mean food and drink and/or their ingredients permitted under the Shariah law and fulfil the following conditions:

a) Does not contain any parts or products of animals that are non-halal by Shariah law or
any parts or products of animals which are not slaughtered according to Shariah law;
b) Does not contain najs according to Shariah law;
c) Safe for consumption, non-poisonous, non-intoxicating or non-hazardous to health;
d) Not prepared, processed or manufactured using equipment contaminated with najs
according to Shariah law;
e) Does not contain any human parts or its derivatives that are not permitted by Shariah
law;
f) During its preparation, processing, handling, packaging, storage and distribution, the
food is physically separated from any other food that does not meet the requirements
stated in items (a), (b), c), (d) or (e) or any other things that have been decreed as najs
by Shariah law.

If a Muslim consumes Haram foods and materials, he would be sinful.

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