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[quote]Only carrion, blood, and swine are explicitly forbidden. Otherwise all that is pure and clean is halal.

Shark is a fish and is as is clean as as any other fish is. We eat tuna fish. Tuna can grow to 200lbs/100kg, which is pretty big. It eats other smaller fish.  Cod can also sometimes grow that big. Catfish can grow to 30-40 lbs and eats other smaller fish. Salmon, a very common diet for us, eats other smaller fish.

My point is, if you take the carnivore rule to the sea, then you can say bye-bye to almost all the fish you eat.

Infact there is no such carnivore rule in the Quran at all. We can eat whatever Allah has made and is clean and pure. It comes to ones own judgement then what is clean and pure. A horse is clean, why not eat horse meat? A bear is clean animal, lives in the forest, eats clean river food and deer meat. Whats wrong with eating bear meat then? A lot of Americans and Canadians eat bear meat. Why don't Muslims? Is bear meat haram?

Can one say something is haram or halal on ones own preference? I don't think so. One can choose to like or dislike something that is pure, hence eat or not eat it, but cannot call it haram.

When Quran leaves something open, then it is the generosity of Allah Taala on us, we should be grateful for that, and not make silly rules to restrict our lives and make it more miserable for everyone.

Quran 6.145: Say: "I find not in the message received by me by inspiration any (meat) forbidden to be eaten by one who wishes to eat it, unless it be dead meat, or blood poured forth, or the flesh of swine,- for it is an abomination - or, what is impious, (meat) on which a name has been invoked, other than Allah's". But (even so), if a person is forced by necessity, without wilful disobedience, nor transgressing due limits,- thy Lord is Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful.

Allah knows best and we are grateful to Him for His favors upon us.[/quote]

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