استحالة الأحماض الذهنية الحرة أثناء التصنيع الغذائي

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Former scholars disagreed on the Transformation (ISTIHALA).

The contemporary scholars decided that the transformation purifies the impure things, but most of them confined their evidence to what the precedent scholars mentioned about samples of transformation without mentioning examples of impure source products which exists nowadays and which are introduced in their food and medicines.

This reliance on the former examples had left a great gap between theory practices.

That created disturbances in asserting true decisions on these incidents.

The transformation of the core of things from one state to another; different in the specifications and names is actual reality; i.e.

the digestion transforms edible food to another bad thing and if the soil is manured with, then it is absorbed by the plants and transformed to a lawful pleasant and ripe fruit.

Studying those cases, it was noted that the decisions are taken according to the characteristics of things and those decisions change when they are transformed.

But that transformation has its rules.

The examples mentioned by former scholars about the transformation rely on the complete disappearance of the original characteristics and the acquisition of new completely different ones.

When pork is transformed into salt, and when a body is burnt and becomes ashes, and the plants are watered by impure water; the complete transformation is represented in all those examples.

But the question is different in simple transformations which are accomplished on food by manufacturing.

Moreover, it is hard to adjust transformation.

If we judge that the pork is impure; when does a part of its meat become pure? The investigating scholars confirm that in each substance there are little components whose effect is unknown nor their influence, and it’s impossible to observe its transformation, and that is found in the dead body and the pork.

Who knows, that may be among the causes of prohibition! According to this base, and what it was find in the research it becomes clear that the total separation of fatty acids from the glycerol molecule is considered a transformation (istihala) because the origin of fat is completely lost, and it becomes not possible to identify the source.

The analogy with the saponification process which includes the reaction of fatty products with a base.

And that reaction is considered a hydrolysis of esters that compose fats to produce the glycerin and salts of organic acids that make soap.

We notice that the saponification operation leads to a complete separation between the glycerol and the acids; then to the acids composition with the used base in new compositions.

It is possible to consider the transformation (istihala) because of that complete separation and the change of soap characteristics from fat.

According to the view of most scholars that the saponification is considered transformation (istihala), the separation of fatty acids is also considered istihala.

Allah knows best.