Pork and carrion are equal in prohibition

Question

Question: Are the meat of the pig and the meat of carrion equal in prohibition, or is there some difference? For example, one Muslim trades in the meat of the pig (sur) and another trades in the meat of carrion: are the two equal in sin, or more and less? Is the prohibition of the pig, carrion and an animal slaughtered by a kafir equal, or more and less?

Answer

The prohibition of both is established by a decisive text (nass qat‘i); indeed, the prohibition of both is mentioned in one and the same verse in one and the same manner: [ar]قُل لَّآ أَجِدُ فِى مَآ أُوحِىَ إِلَىَّ مُحَرَّمًا عَلَىٰ طَاعِمٍ يَطْعَمُهُۥٓ إِلَّآ أَن يَكُونَ مَيْتَةً أَوْ دَمًا مَّسْفُوحًا أَوْ لَحْمَ خِنزِيرٍ[/ar] “Say: ‘I do not find, in what has been revealed…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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