Turkish → English transcript

Teacher, I am a cook.

Um, because of my job there is this

logic in the kitchen that you cannot sell something whose taste you do not know.

So for this reason, teacher, I ate pork.

To be able to describe its taste to the customer.

Teacher, what is the sin of this?

I mean, I ate it out of necessity. If only that, that customer had never come.

And if only you had never done such a thing. There is no such compulsion, my girl.

First of all, if he does not feel like it, he may never come again.

In the first place, it is not right for you to work in such a place anyway.

You probably ate it abroad.

In my opinion, it most likely happened abroad.

No, teacher, it was a five- star hotel. Its name, do not you dare say its name.

No, no, no.

Do not say the city or the name either.

Whoever it is, whoever owns the place or venue,

anyone who sells what is forbidden is a partner in that forbidden thing.

They are a partner with everyone who eats it.

And you, unfortunately, have gotten involved in that business as well,

in a small way. Yes. You did not do the right thing. Let’s say, um, sir,

at the place where you work,

they forced you into this like this, they compelled you.

Um, the only thing to do, my daughter,

is to say,“ You keep the apron, I bid you farewell,

God will provide for me,” and leave there. That would have been the right thing.

Because of this,

you must have repented, of course.

Yes, I did, hodja, my conscience was not at ease anyway. Of course, of course.

No Muslim from the heart would ever say yes to pork anyway. What God has forbidden.

God makes thousands of kinds of meat lawful. The pig is a test animal, so to speak.

God says you can eat quail outside, I do not know, sheep, goat, cattle, buffalo,

whatever there is, you can eat all the meats, including fish. He says,“ Do

not eat pork for My sake.”

I mean, not because the pig is a very bad animal.

There may be animals worse than it. God has made this meat, this animal,

a test animal for us, he put our faith, our belief,

our ego out there as a test subject and said, you will not eat this.

Of course, pork has many harms. Those are separate issues.

I will not get into that medical topic from that angle, I will not talk about it.

But, um, if Allah has forbidden something, it is forbidden.

It is bad, ugly, and impure. Its meat is impure.

I am not saying this about the animal, an animal is an animal. Allah created it.

But he said,“ You will not eat its meat.” We will not eat it. Teacher, is it

harmful to health? Is that why? Of course it is, of course it is.

It causes many vascular diseases. In Europe many doctors,

um, advise the people they see, their patients, not to eat pork. Lamb, goat,

and beef are much more preferred. It is the same in Europe.

Fish is preferred even more.

And, um, when some generals left Europe and went to Islamic countries and

launched the Crusades, they made roast from pork and then they threw away all

that roast.

So it is not like our other animals, it is very different. A pig eats its own kind,

it eats humans too.

I mean, put a wounded person in a pigsty,

after 10 minutes you will only find the bones.

There is no such thing in sheep or goats.

They are much more gentle animals.