Aslam

A certain religious man served food before an Abdal.
Without eating it, the latter asked him about it and said : Who don't eat except lawful food for which our hearts remain firm, our conditions become lasting, the affairs of heaven are disclosed to us and we see the next world. If we eat only three days what you eat, knowledge of our sure faith will disappear, and fear and actual vision will go from our hearts. The man said to him : I fast throughout the year and recite the Quran 30 times every month.
The Abdul said to him : The water which I drink at night and what you see are dearer to me than your reciting the Quran thirty times in three hundred rakats of prayer. The milk of deer was his drink. There is written in the Torah : If a man does not care wherefrom he eats food, God also will not care by which door of Hell He will throw him in Hell.

CLASSES OF HALAL AND HARAM

(1) Things which are naturally unlawful. (2) and earnings which are unlawful.

(1) The things which are naturally unlawful are wine, blood, meat of pigs, dead animals, etc. The things fit for eating in the world are of three kinds, (a) minerals, such as salt, (2) vegetables and (3) animals.

(a) First kind — Minerals. Minerals are of different kinds.
What grows out of earth is not unlawful four eating except what causes harm. There are things which have got the effect of poison. They are unlawful as they are injurious things.

(b) Second kind — Vegetables. They are not unlawful for eating except those vegetable which remove intellect, take life and ruin health. The things which destroy intellect are wine and intoxicants. The things which destroy life are poisons. The things which ruin health are medicines used out of time.

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(c) Third kind — Animals. They are of two kind — (1) what is eatable (2) and what is not eatable. Birds, beasts and animals in land and water which are fit for eating and which , if sacrificed according to the rules of Shariat, become lawful . What is not sacrificed according to the rules of Shariat and what is dead are unlawful, Out of dead animals , two kinds are lawful — fish and locusts. The following animals are lawful according to this rule — worms in food-stuffs and fruits, etc. What is not liking to a particular person is Makruh for eating. The Prophet said :
Immerge a fly if it falls in food.' If an ant falls in food, it does not become impure. If a portion of flesh of a dead man falls in food, the whole food becomes unlawful. It is not on account of impurity, as man does not become impure after death, but it is out of horror. Animal, if sacrificed according to Shariat, becomes lawful except its blood and what is attached to its impurities.
Regarding vegetables, what produces intoxication in unlawful and what removes intellect is unlaw'ful . One drop of an impure thing renders food unlawful.