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assalamua'laikum...
copy paste dari seorang sahabat AFN yang juga berada di negara ahlulkitab:
(Taken entirely from a dars given by Sh. Muhammad
Bazmool, translated by Moosa Richardson and a fatwa
given by Sh. al-Albaani)
Istihala is when something becomes pure. It was
najis (impure) but it is now taahir, (pure). A good
example would be maitah (animal carcass): it is
najis, but should it be burned and become ashes, or
decompose and become earth, then it is taahir, it is
no longer najis. This can happen with dung or feces
or whatever. Whenever something changes from one
property to another, then the ruling likewise
changes.
Example: Let us say that someone uses the fat of a
dead animal to make soap. That fat is najis, but
the chemical change that it was put through makes it
taahir.
Ibn Hazm put it concisely when he said,
"Ruling upon an object is upon what it is named
(what it is), if the name (what it is) changes then
so does the ruling."
He also mentioned in his book of fiqh, Al-Muhalla:
"If the quality of the substance of naturally impure
objects changes the name which was given to it so
that it is no more applicable to it and it is given
a new name which is given to a pure object, so it is
no more an impure thing. It becomes a new object,
with a new rule."
Meaning that if the natural composition of a
substance changes to another substance of a
different composition, so much so that you can no
longer call the new substance by the name of what it
was-- ruling upon that substance changes too.
Proof/Example 1:
The companions (radyallahu anhum) used to eat a
cheese that came from the land of the disbelievers.
In that cheese was a part of the calf which was
slaughtered by the disbelievers in a way that is not
in accordance with Islaam. The companions knew
this, but they also knew that the prohibition was
upon the calf, what is directly from the calf, and
what could be properly called part of the calf; the
ruling is not upon that which you cannot identify as
part of the calf nor is it called any longer
such-and-such part of the calf. This is called
istihala.
Proof/Example 2:
Another proof from the Sunnah: The Prophet
(sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam) forbade making
vinegar out of wine, but he said that if you should
come across vinegar that has been made from wine
then it is halaal.
Why?
The ruling is upon what the object is, and not what
it was. Wine is haraam; vinegar is not, and before
the wine became an intoxicant, it was halaal. Why?
Because it was fruit before that.
Proof/Example 3:
Allah says in the Qur'an:
"And surely there is a lesson for you in the cattle
we give you to drink of what is in their bellies
from between the feces and blood, pure milk,
wholesome to those who drink it." (16:66)
Allah is putting forth an example for us of how
something pure can come from something impure.
And we can also use as proof something that we've
already gone over. The Prophet (sallallahu 'alayhi
wa sallam) said that when the hide of maitah (the
carrion) is tanned, then it is taahir. He
(sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam) gave us a method to
purify something which was first impure.
Let us examine things we are familiar with: mono and
diglycerides, whey, gluten, emulsifiers, gelatin,
and whatever else is on the international haraam
list. These by-products sometimes come from
animals, pigs even, in which case the ruling on the
initial substances is that they are haraam. But the
initial substances (e.g. fat, marrow, cartilage,
etc.) are put through chemical change so that you no
longer can even call it "pig fat" or "animal bone"
or "skin" or "cartilage", etc. because it is no
longer that, hence it is taahir, it is halaal.
What is gelatin? As Oxford dictionary of science
defines: "A colorless or pale yellow, water-soluble
protein obtained by boiling collagen with water and
evaporating the solution. It melts when water is
added and dissolves in hot water to form a solution
that sets to a gel on cooling." (page 290)
Is this a chemical change or is this not a chemical
change? Is it protein any longer? No, it is not.
You are in disbelief so you ask, "But how can it be
halaal when it came from something haraam?"
Because of the proofs mentioned above, the ruling is
not based upon what it was, the ruling is based upon
what it is. A Hanafi scholar, Ibn Abedin gave the
example: "the swine which drowns in a salt lake and
decomposes and becomes salt itself, is now halaal."
And other Hanafi scholars go on to say: "salt is
different from meat and bones. If they become salt,
they are salt."
To take the salt example further: salt consists of
sodium chloride (NaCl) when together they are the
halaal food known as salt, when separated they make
up two poisonous substances which are then haraam
for consumption.
The ahnaaf (Hanafis) also use as an example the
human semen, saying that it is najis, then when it
inseminates the egg and becomes a blood clot it is
still najis, but when it becomes flesh it is no
longer najis. And the ahnaaf are not the only ones
who take this position.
The examples are numerous and they extend beyond
food: Yesterday a man was kaafir and going towards
Hell, today he is Muslim, so what is the ruling upon
him? It is based upon what he is today.
We must be careful when we call things haraam
because it is a form of thulm (oppression).
Scholars have said that it is worse that you make
something halaal to haraam rather than making
something haraam to halaal. This deen Allah has
made yusr (easy) let us not make it 'usr (hard).
Wallahu 'Alim
*terpegun sebenarnya baca article ni.....
*sungguh la ''This deen Allah has
made yusr (easy) let us not make it 'usr (hard)''...
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