Wednesday, September 30, 2009

FOOD INGREDIENT NUMBERS:

http://special.worldofislam.info/Food/numbers.html

E-Numbers represent specific food additives, used by the food industry in the manufacture of various food products. These E-Numbers have been formulated by the European Economic Community (EEC) and are universally adopted by the food industry worldwide.It is known that many E-numbers contain unlisted haraam ingredients in them. Generally additives derived from animals and insects.
E-numbers are reference numbers used by the European Union to facilitate identification of food additives. All food additives used in the European Union are identified by an E-number. The "E" stands for "Europe" or "European Union". Normally each food additive is assigned a unique number, though occasionally, related additives are given an extension ("a", "b", or "i", "ii") to another E-number.
The Commission of the European Union assigns e-numbers after the additive is cleared by the Scientific Committee on Food (SCF), the body responsible for the safety evaluation of food additives in the European Union. The convention for assigning E-numbers is:
100-199
food colors
200-299
preservatives
300-399
antioxidants, phosphates, and complexing agents
400-499
thickeners, gelling agents, phosphates, humectants, emulsifiers
500-599
salts and related compounds
600-699
flavor enhancers
700-899
not used for food additives (used for feed additives)
900-999
surface coating agents, gases, sweeteners
1000-1399
miscellaneous additive
1400-1499
starch derivatives

Additives which are ALWAYS of animal origin, such as (HARAAM):
E120 Cochineal : a red colour obtained from female insects
E441 Gelatine : derived from the bones and/ or hides of cattle and/ or pigs
E542 Edible Bone Phosphate : an extract from animal bones
E904 Shellac : a resin from the lac insectWhilst some additives with a common code such as E47, can be either of animal or plant origin and this latter type needs to be investigated on a case-by-case basis per product/ manufacturer.

The main additives you need to be aware of are:
Glycerol / Glycerin / Glycerine (E422) - haraam if obtained from pork or non-halal meat sources.
Emulsifiers (E470 to E483) - haraam if obtained from pork or non-halal sources.
Edible Bone Phosphate (E542) - haraam if obtained from pork or non-halal meat sources.

Maklumat E471

Sumber:
http://www.iluvislam.com/v1/forum/viewthread.php?forum_id=73&thread_id=6973

E471 adalah emulsifier, derived from fatty acids. Ia boleh berasal dari tumbuhan, ataupun dari haiwan. Justeru, ianya adalah mashbuh (syubhah).1st, konfemkan dengan fatwa setempat. mufti / majlis agama kat sana kate boleh makan x? kalau boleh then makanlah tanpa ragu2.then, e471 tu, kita tak tahu asal usulnya dari tumbuhan atau haiwan. kalau mampu nk investigate, investigate lah (tanya tuan kedai, refer ke website manufacturer etc). kalau x mampu, maka boleh saja hindarkan. kalau nk makan pun ada pendapat kata boleh, sebab e471 tu tak haram secara mutlak, sesuatu makanan itu halal kecuali ada sebab yang mengharamkannya.

kalau nak diikutkan, kod e ini, hanya 4 jenis sahaja yang betul2 haram (sebab berasal dari sumber haiwan, tiada sumber tumbuhan), iaitu:E-120 E-441 E-542 E-904 kod2 lain adalah berstatus syubhah atau halal. boleh tengok kat sini untuk penjelasan lanjut yang lebih detail. http://special.worldofislam.info/Food/numbers.html

Important Notice For All Muslim


Please note that all chocolate, vanilla and coffee drinks contains E471 (Emulsifier 471), mono di-glycefides which is from animal origin (PORK)... Raspberry Frap uses cherries that has been dip n alcohol & the tiramisu contains RUM. Please pass this message to our muslim friends.. Call JAKIM (malaysia) 03 - 8886 4000 for more information.

Girl Missing While At School On UPSR


GIRL MISSING WHILE A T SCHOOL ON UPSR day 8TH SEPT 09

ASHWINI d/o SURESH KULIM T A MIL SCHOOL ( A IR MER A H) STD 6 (upsr)

CONT A CT MOTHER MDM DEWI 04-4919224
Dear friends, I just spoke to the parents of A SWINI to obtain some particulars. This girl A SHWINI went missing in the school compound itself inbetween UPSR examinations on 8/9/09 according to her mother Mdm Dewi. They have lodged a police report and have searched all over and at relatives houses for A swini. It has been 10 days todate. The mother's workmate helped to initiate this mail on 14th May at least. We hope to at least be of some help to them by circulating this mail to the public for help.


Please help to circulate as soon as possible.

Did You Know?


1. A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.
2. A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds up to 60mph.
3. Every time you lick a stamp, you consume 1/10 of a calorie.
4. A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months.
5. A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph.
6. Every person has a unique tongue print.
7. According to German researchers, the risk of heart attack is higher on Monday than any other day of the week.
8. After spending hours working at a computer display, look at a blank piece of white paper. It will probably appear pink.
9. An average human drinks about 16,000 gallons of water in a lifetime.
10. A fingernail or toenail takes about 6 months to grow from base to tip.
11. An average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.
12. It takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown.
13. Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood, we only have 206 in our bodies.
14. Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in hislifetime.
15. By age sixty, most people have lost half of their taste buds.
16. By the time you turn 70, your heart will have beat some two-and-a-half billion times (figuring on an average of 70 beats per minute).
17. Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.
18. Every human spent half an hour as a single cell.
19. Every square inch of the human body has an average of 32 million bacteria on it.
20. Fingernails grow faster than toenails.
21. Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour – about 1.5 pounds a year. By 70 years of age, an average person will have lost 105 pounds of skin.
Amazing Lung Facts
• At rest, a person breathes about 14 to 16 times per minute. After exercise it could increase to over 60 times per minute.
• New babies at rest breathe between 40 and 50 times per minute. By age five it decreases to around 25 times per minute.
• The total surface area of the alveoli (tiny air sacs in the lungs) is the size of a tennis court.
• The lungs are the only organ in the body that can float on water.
• The lungs produce a detergent-like substance which reduces the surface tension of the fluid lining, allowing air in.


Amazing Heart Facts
• Your heart is about the same size as your fist.
• An average adult body contains about five quarts of blood.
• All the blood vessels in the body joined end to end would stretch 62,000 miles or two and a half times around the earth.
• The heart circulates the body's blood supply about 1,000 times each day.

Az-Zakah - The Obligatory Charity


by Shaykh Abu Bakr Jabir al-Jaza'iry
Legal Ruling
Allah (Subhanuhu Wa-Ta'ala) has obligated Zakah upon every Muslim who possesses a minimum amount of wealth, according to some conditions.
Allah (Subhanuhu Wa-Ta'ala) made Zakah obligatory in His Book by His statement;Take from their wealth Sadaqah in order to purify them and sanctify them with it. [9:103]
And His statement: O you who believe! Spend from the good things which you have (legally) earned, and of that which We have produced from the earth for you.(2:267)
And His statement: And establish the prayer (Salah) and pay the obligatory charity (Zakah). (73:20)

Zakah was also made obligatory by the statement of the Messenger (sall'Allahu alaihi wa sallam): lslam was built upon five (pillars): The testimony that none has the right to be worshipped hut Allah and Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, the establishment of the prayer (Salah), paying the obligatory charity (Zakah), pilgrimage to the House (Hajj to the Ka'bah in Makkah) and fasting (the month of) Ramadhan.) (Al-Bukhari and Muslim)

And his statement: I was commanded to fight the people until they testify that none has the right to be worshipped but Allah and Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, establish the prayer and pay the obligatory charity (Zakah) If they do that, then they have protected their blood and wealth from me, except according to the right of Islam, and their reckoning is with Allah . (Al-Bukhari and Muslim)

And his statement in advising Mu'adh when he sent him to Yemen: Verily you are going to a people who are People of the Scripture, so invite them to the testimony that there is none worthy of worship but Allah and I (Muhammad sall'Allahu alaihi wa sallam) am the Messenger of Allah. If they obey you in that, inform them that Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, has obligated them to (pray) five prayers every day and night. If they obey you, then inform them that He has obligated them to give charity from their wealth that is to be taken from their wealthy and given to their poor. If they obey you in that, then stay away from (taking) the best of their wealth. And beware of the supplication of the oppressed person, for verily there is no veil between it and Allah. (Al-Bukhari and Muslim)

It's Wisdom
The following are some of the points derived from the wisdom of legislating Zakah:
Purification of the human soul from the vices of stinginess, greed, covetousness and lustfulness.
Comforting the poor and fulfilling the needs of the needy, distraught and deprived people.
Establishing comprehensive benefits that the life of the Muslim community (Ummah) and its happiness depend upon.
Limiting the inflation of wealth among the wealthy, and at the hands of the businessmen and merchants. This is so that the wealth will not be restricted solely to one limited group of people, nor controlled by only the wealthy.

The Ruling of One Who Refuses to Pay Zakah
Whoever refuses to pay Zakah, while denying its obligation, has disbelieved. Whoever refuses to pay Zakah due to stinginess, while affirming its obligation, has committed a sin. In this case Zakah is taken from such a person by force and he is also given some disciplinary punishment. If he fights in refusing to give it, he is fought until he submits to the command of Allah (Subhanuhu Wa-Ta'ala) and pays Zakah.
This is due to Allah the Almighty's statement: So if they repent, establish the prayer and give Zakah then they are your brethren in religion. (9:11)

This is also due to the Prophet's statement: I was commanded to fight the people until they teshfy that none has right to be worshipped but Allah and Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, establish the prayer and pay Zakah. If they do this, then they have protected their blood and wealth from me, except by the right of Islam, and their reckoning is with Allah. (Al-Bukhari and Muslim)

Likewise, concerning fighting those who refused to pay Zakah, Abu Bakr As-Siddiq said: "By Allah, if they refuse to give me (of Zakah) a young she-goat that they used to give to Allah's Messenger .. I will fight them for it." (Al-Bukhari)
In this situation the Companions agreed with him (Abu Bakr) about this, so there was a consensus among them.
Taken from the book Minhaj Al-Muslim vol.2, published by Dar-us-Salam Publications

Dear Brother and sister in Islam,
Islam is the religion of equality
This is a month when Muslims across the world join in unity to perform prayers and fasting. No doubt you will agree that we must also unite to help all the poor and suffering throughout the world. Zakat Al-Maal is the third pillar of Islam and is a mandatory payment required of every Muslim who meets the requirements for paying it. It testifies to the genuineness of a Muslim's faith.

In the Holy Qur'an, Allah (Subhanuhu Wa-Ta'ala) says,
"Those who establish prayers and spend from that which we have bestowed upon them, these are the true believers. They will have [lofty] grades of honor with their Lord, and forgiveness, and a generous provision." [8:3-4]

In addition to helping the weak and downtrodden, Zakat also serves to purify the soul and bless the wealth. It also strives to eliminate envy and greed as well as improve an individual's social spirit, as the
Prophet (sall'Allahu alaihi wa sallam) said, "Charity extinguishes sin as water extinguishes fire."� [Ahmed: Muadh 21116]

Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alaihi wa-sallam) said: "Pay the Zakaat so that your Islam becomes complete." [Al-Bazzar].
And Qur'an says: "Give them something yourselves out of the means which Allah has given you." [Soorah an-Noor (24): 33]
Bear in mind as well that thousands of needy people have been waiting the whole year for this moment. Your Zakat will truly make a difference. InshaAllah!

OH ALLAH! Make useful for me what You taught meand teach me knowledge that will be useful to me!
(Aameen)

Sunday, September 20, 2009

Doa Untuk Anak-Anak Ku

Untuk anak-anak yang dikasihi dan diingati
Mohamad Firdaus a.ka "Ijan"
Izzah Farhani a.k.a "Ijah"
Mohamad Hafiz Faizi a.k.a "Aloy"

Selamat menyambut Hari Raya Aidil Fitri

Rabbanâ waj’alnâ muslimayni laka wa min dzurriyyatanâ ummatan muslima-tan laka, wa arinâ manâsikanâ wa tub ‘alayna innaka Antat Tawwâbur Rahîm.
Ya Tuhan kami, jadikan kami berdua orang yang patuh kepada-Mu; jadikan keturunan kami ummat yang patuh kepada-Mu; tunjuk-kan kepada kami tempat-tempat ibadah haji kami; dan terimalah taubat kami, sesung-guhnya Engkau Yang Maha Menerima taubat dan Maha Penyayang.

Rabbij’alnî muqîmash shalâti wa min dzurriyyatî, Rabbanâ wa taqabbal du’â’. Rabbanaghfirlî wa li-wâlidayya wa lil-mu’minîna yawma yaqûmul hisâb.
Ya Tuhaku, jadikan aku dan keturunanku orang-orang yang tetap mendirikan shalat; ya Tuhan kami terimalah doaku.Ya Tuhan kami, ampuni aku dan kedua orang tuaku serta orang-orang mukmin pada hari terja-dinya hisab (hari kiamat).
Rabbanâ hab lanâ min azwâjinâ wa dzurriyyatinâ qurrata a’yunin waj-’alnâ lil-muttaqîna imâmâ.
Ya Tuhan kami, anugerahkan kepada kami pasangan kami dan keturunan kami sebagai penyejuk hati kami, dan jadikan kami imam bagi orang-orang yang bertakwa. (Al-Furqan: 74)

Rabbi awzi’nî an asykura ni’mata-kal latî an’amta ‘alayya wa ‘alâ wâlidayya wa an a’mala shâlihan tardhâhu, wa ashlih-lî fî dzurriyyatî, innî tubtu ilayka wa innî minal muslimîn.
Ya Tuhanku, tunjuki aku untuk mensyukuri nikmat-Mu yang telah Kau berikan padaku dan pada kedua orang tuaku, dan supaya aku dapat beramal shaleh yang Engkau ridhai; anugerahi aku kebaikan dengan (memberi kebaikan) kepada keturunanku. Sesungguhnya aku bertaubat kepada-Mu dan sesungguhnya aku termasuk orang-orang yang berserah diri.

Rabbanâ hab lanâ min azwâjinâ wa dzurriyyatinâ qurrata a’yun waj’alnâ lil-muttaqîna imâmâ.
Ya Tuhan kami, anugerahkan kepada kami pasangan kami dan keturunan kami sebagai penyejuk hati kami, dan jadikan kami imam bagi orang-orang yang bertakwa. (Al-Furqan: 74).