What is Halal and Haram food in Islam

 What is Halal and Haram Food in Islam

                                                            

What I am talking about in this blog post is Halal and Haram food in Islam. Halal means in arabic, permissible. Haram is the opposite of halal, forbidden. In Islam if you commit a haram act you must pray to Allah SWT (Islam God) for forgiveness and realize what you have done wrong. Haram is also considered as a terrible sin. The term Halal is not only for food. You can also be halal by doing great acts such as praying 5 times a day and reading the Quran. (Holy Book of Islam) All in all this is what halal and haram mean. 

What is Halal food? Halal food is food that has been slaughtered in a specific way. These food are animals such as cows and chickens. Except for fish which you can eat no matter how it was killed, and pork which is haram and forbidden to eat if you are a muslim. In order to kill a animal correctly for it to be considered you have to, make sure the animal is healthy and right before you kill it recite a shahada which is a saying in arabic, and then kill the animal. Before doing anything else with it you have to make sure all the blood is drained from the animal. 

What is Haram Food? Haram food is mainly food that is related to pigs such as pork, ham, and pig gelatin. Even if you kill pigs the right way for them to be halal they will never be considered halal. This is strictly said in the Quran. If you were to eat a animal such as a chicken or cow and it was not killed to be halal that is fine, many muslims do this. But to compensate for it not being killed halal you have to say Bismillah which means, In the name of God. 

All of this information was from this website and being a muslim myself. 

Halal and Haram Food Guide

Sehan Alam 

Jaines Andrades becomes a Nurse Practioner

Title: From Janitor to Nurse Practitioner at the same Hospital, meet Jaines Andrades

Summary

This article is about a woman named Jaines Andrades. She went from working as a janitor to working as a nurse practitioner in the same hospital, Baystate Springfield Hospital. It started off as her being a janitor and moved from the urgent care unit to the operating room. In the operating room she often interacted with the patients and the nurses and she loved that. So she decided to go work for her bachelors degree for about 5 years. Two years later was hired as a registered nurse at Baystate. She was convinced by her colleagues to go one step further and go for a doctorate in nursing. During her time studying for the doctorate she got transferred to a new job, Baystate’s acute care unit. 3 weeks later she was hired as a nurse practitioner in the trauma surgery department at the same hospital, Baystate Springfield Hospital

Analysis

This article was very inspiring to read. It was inspiring because she was a custodian or a janitor. But she worked hard and got a job as a nurse practitioner. This really shows no matter how tough the situation looks, there is always a way to get out of it and become better. I also feel that it is quite interesting because you don't usually hear stories of people going from being a janitor to a nurse and in the same hospital. This article reminds me of stories of people starting off low and then they end up with something better than they started with

Do you agree or disagree with my personal analysis that the article was inspirational?