Bigotry: The Dark Danger

The Idea that Food is Spoiled because of Jews

“Had it not been for the Children of Israel, food would not have become stale, and meat would not have gone bad.” (Sahih Muslim, Book 8, Hadith 3472)

This false hadith is a very significant piece of evidence for understanding the mindset that fabricate such hadiths and for showing how fraudulent they are. The fabricated hadiths we have been discussing throughout this book are the product of that mindset. It is of course not surprising that a mentality that alleges that food would not spoil and meat would not go off were there no Jews in the world also has terrifying ways of looking at women, animals, art and all social life. The false hadith in question is also evidence of how hadiths that are contemptuous of and hostile toward Jews are fabrications. A belief system that maintains that a community that is mentioned and is praised in the Qur’an, and that is descended from the Prophet Moses (pbuh), can cause food to spoil and meat to go off, can most definitely not belong to a true faith. We also need to remember that our Lord makes it lawful to eat food prepared by Jews and Christians in verse 5 of Surat al-Ma’ida. The perspective that we are looking at, that differs from that in the Qur’an, is very definitely a fanatical one. The profound collapse of logic here is enough to illustrate the fanatics’ distorted logic in general.

A belief system that maintains that the presence of a community mentioned and praised in the Qur'an and descended from the Prophet Moses (pbuh) causes food to spoil and meat to go bad can never be part of a Divine faith.