After a while he discussed this project with me. “My friend told me that he made a supplication to Allah that if he had a chance to work in a pharmaceutical company he would produce halal dietary supplements for all Muslims. This information surprised my friend and he started inquiring about vitamins, especially the processing of herbal or vegetarian labels products,” Dr. On top of this, he added, that the process of manufacturing was not halal too. The pharmacist told him that not only capsules were made of gelatin (whose source is pork), but also a number of ingredients were sourced from pork or pig’s skin, bone or intestines. My friend discussed this with another friend who had a doctorate in pharmacy and worked in Walgreen, one of the leading US pharmacies. The pharmacist came back and told him that no multivitamin was available without gelatin caps and alcohol, though very few companies claimed that their products were gelatin-free but not alcohol-free. “This whole idea came to my mind when a couple of years ago, my patient and friend, who was executive director and CEO of a health center in the United States, told me that due to a heavy workload and stress, he asked his pharmacist to buy a multivitamin for him. HNC helps Muslims to keep their bodies pure and healthy with 100 percent halal products under the slogan ‘Halal Lifestyle, a Healthy Lifestyle,’” Dr. “Various Hadiths clearly tell us that in order to get our supplications accepted we need to have halal food, diet or nutrients, which do not contain ingredients that are haram. Zaheer also runs the Halal Nutritional Center, a registered body whose trade mark is HNC.
Amer Zaheer, an internal medicine practitioner based in Houston, Texas, and president of the US-based Herbal Pharma Inc. Also, our body is a trust from Allah so it is obligatory on the part of every individual to keep his or her body healthy and abstain from haram,” said Dr. “All dietary supplements are food alternatives and not life-savers so if they are haram (unlawful) we cannot take them under any circumstance. Also, so far as consumption of any food or drink is concerned, Islam has laid down three important guidelines that one should not take food, which is prohibited by Allah that all sources of obtaining food must be halal (lawful) and that consuming anything that is harmful to our health or body is not allowed. JEDDAH, 8 August 2007 - Islam emphasizes physical and spiritual purity as well as cleanliness.
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