So yesterday JAKIM got into serious business by ambushing some restaurants and food-booths that use non-JAKIM halal trademark. A few of them were kinda popular, like Subway and Aunt Anne's Pretzels. Of course they censored it on TV, but come on lah, ingat tak kenal ke?
Okay, then people, as usual, start to talk about this matter. Some question the need of a halal trademark when it's not really stated in the Quran or hadis or sunnah that any food needs halal trademark to be qualified as halal. To make it simple, some people agree with this halal trademark thingy while some don't. Probably because they love eating at those places so people tend to get into denial. Kan? Jangan nak tipulah, aku tau lah sebab aku pun rasa macam tu haha.
So this is what my father said to me once about looking for halal food.
"Kita ni sebagai orang Islam, kita bertanggungjawab untuk cari makanan halal sebab apa yang kita makan tu yang akan jadi darah daging kita.
Kedai yang pemilik dia orang bukan Islam ni, memanglah dia cakap kedai dia halal, takde daging babi dan sebagainya, tapi masa dia beli barang-barang dia tu dia bukan tau dan peduli tentang cara sembelih dan kandungan yang ada dalam sos yang dia guna. Diorang bukan tau gelatin tu tak semua halal sebab sesetengah gelatin guna lemak babi."
And then I asked.
"Habis tu kalau kedai orang Islam pun tapi guna barangan tak halal macam mana? Kita bukan tau."
"Bila kita dah cuba elak dari benda yang haram, sekurang-kurangnya dosa dah bukan dekat kita. Walaupun kita dengan yakin makan kat kedai Cina yang tulis halal, tapi kita tau pemilik dia Cina, bila kita termakan benda haram tanpa sengaja pun kalau dosa tetap dekat kita, bukan Cina tu. Kalau kita makan dekat kedai orang Islam, dia tipu kita dengan hidang benda haram, dosa dah tentu dekat dia."
Got that?
To me, JAKIM's halal trademark is something made easy for us. Diorang dah tolong make sure untuk kita sama ada makanan yang akan kita makan tu halal atau tidak by checking everything thoroughly beforehand, without us having to do the hard work. Yelah, bila kita beli ayam dekat pasaraya or bila kita makan dekat kedai, how do we make sure ayam dia tu dia sembelih properly dulu ikut cara Islam? Bila kita tanya orang kedai tu pun bukan dia tau, sebab bukan dia sembelih. The only way is to go to the place where they slaughter all the chicken, and check for yourself. Mana pulak nak carik tempat sembelihannya tu? Dah satu kerja nak carik. Macam mana nak tau pulak isi kandungan makanan dalam tin tu halal ke tak, guna gelatin yang dibenarkan ke tidak? Takkan nak cari kilang pemprosesan dia tanya bahan apa dia guna?
So JAKIM did all this hard work for us. And of course, to make sure everything is completely halal, they need a long duration of time. To go to the factories and what not, banyak kerja kan? And because of this long duration of time, the food production company or the restaurants do it the easy way, they buy the halal trademark. Tau tak yang sebenarnya ada certain companies yang jual je halal trademark ni without doing thorough check-ups? Sebab tu lah it's a big deal to have other halal trademarks plastered on your wall. Ragu-ragu tau dok? Pehe dok mu?
Tapi tu lah, manusia ni dah bagi kemudahan, tak reti nak bersyukur. Have it your way.
Just saying.
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