I come across with a question pasal pig ni recently. Kat Malaysia, normally we will not eat at the place yang serve pork and some people won't eat at Chineese stall though they just sell laksa if they don;t have the Halal certificate. And I'm really sure that we were taught during school time yang pig dan seumpama dengan nya najis mughallazah and we can't touch it. All the utensil yang digunakan utk serve pork must be samak first. Bila kat UK, i normally ate at college cafe although they serve pork. My justification, I don't see the plate that I'm using org letak pork before so kira halal la... lagipun darurat .. mane larat nak tapau makanan hari2 and i always keep this justification .. Until recently I'm on business trip kat US. Hari2 makan kat luar .. and most of the restaurant serve pork. I start thinking ... kat sini aku makan je kat restaurant yg serve pork as long as I'm sure the food I ate contains no non halal food... why can't i do the same thing kat malaysia. If this wrong .. i should avoid it ... if this not why can't i do the same thing in malaysia?? Got one time my friend offer fruit .. but i didnt take it sebab takut complication ni .. macam pikir knife dia ada guna cut pork ke etc ..
so I try to figure out what actually Quran or hadith said abt this. Tapi seperti biasa kalau nak tau mendalam macam ambik masa yg lama je nak baca all the hadith and quran .. so aku pun dok short cut to google. Dlm Quran prohibit kita makan pork .. tapi actually takde pun cakap pasal touching pig or any stuff yg ada related to pork. While google tu .. macam tak jumpa the exact saying yg cakap kita kena samak bekas yg pernah letak anything related to pig. The nearest that i found is ... there is hadeeth said that we have to wash the container lick by dog with 1 portion of sand and 6 portion of water ( err sorry if tersalah .. lazy to recheck) .. but not on pig. And as most people think that pig lebih najis compare to dog so the same rules goes to pig. And so far web yg cakap pasal touching pig u need to wash with sand ( samak) is only come from Malaysia.. maybe the ijtihad come from Shafie but i can't confirm sebab tak jumpa. While google pasal pig ni I come across with Syed Petra nye writing... kind of interesting. Maybe something yg kita patut start pikir kot .. There is lots of restriction that our tradition tell us may not be what is suppose to .. but it's up to us to judge it ..
http://www.malaysia-today.net/MMblues/2006/04/in-search-of-islam.htm
So harap2 anyone yg ada knowledge abt this can comment. I hope i can write in fully english tapi malas la plak .... Mana la tau someone google and found my page and can comment abt that. For my own opinion, if there really no words from Allah or Muhammad abt this, I don't see any harm using something that previously use to serve pork as long as the food that we ate have been prepare in clean and halal manner. But Allah know the best .. Please sesapa yg boleh comment abt this.