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Saturday, March 03, 2007

Of Lie Detector and Halal Detector

An old friend who was my former head if unit visited to look for a stop watch. He is organising a fitness session at his community mosque in Damansara. To entertain in another friend who is still working but in a different department called me to to cafeteria for tea which I obliged.

When asked what is his present commitment with work, he told us that he doing some part time work with a company in Hartamas who serve in lie detecting using lie detector instruments. Now I found out that there is some business to catch individuals who lie. Lying must have a big market it seems. He was telling about some South Africans who came for the lie detecting session because he is going to work in a diamond factory back in his homeland. Well, diamond is an expensive item eventhough its just about the size of a pin head. So workers need to be someone honest.

Then my friend brought up a matter of Halal food for Muslims. A day before there was a talk about Halal Food at our auditorium. Muslims today face the most difficult situation and is a problem in determining the halal status of the food they consume. One of the reason for food or any articles not becoming halal is the addition of pig products even though in small quantity.

Islam.about.com in an article about Halal Food writes; Dietary laws for Muslims are very clear. As outlined in the Qur'an, Muslims are forbidden from consuming pork, alcohol, blood, meat dedicated to false gods, etc. It is easy to avoid these basic ingredients, but what about when the ingredients are disguised as something else? Modern food production allows manufacturers to start out with one basic product, then cook it, boil it, and process it, until they can call it something else. However, if its original source was a forbidden food, then it is still forbidden to Muslims.

So this friend ask is there someone who will invent an instrument small enough to carry in ones pocket or purse and use it to detect whether the chicken, lamb,meat or any dairy product that need to be slaughtered in the name of Allah is halal. To some it might be a joke but I think that is a serious suggestion even he is joking. So I told him that there must me something hidden by Allah and left to be uncovered by man that might differentiate the meat is halal or not. Maybe Allah conceal some chemical changes in the muscle of properly slaughtered animal in His name from those animal that is not slaughtered according to Islam procedures.

Well, he asked me, what if a non Muslim who follow the same procedure when slaughtering the animal. I responded that if one is a true Muslim who slaughter in the name of Allah will still give the same outcome. So it is not the slaughtering procedure but also who slaughter.

So.........will there be a halal detector too in future?

Read more about lie detector

How lie detector works
Polygraph-lie detector
The Internet Lie Detector
Learn how to beat (or pass) a lie detector polygraph
How To Detect Lies





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