Is eating pork or carrion considered among the major or minor sins? And is there a worldly punishment or an otherworldly threat for the one who does so?
Some jurists, such as Ibn Hajar al-Haytami al-Shafi'i, considered the eating of carrion and pork to be among the major sins, citing Allah's saying concerning them: {That is فسق (disobedience to Allah)} [Al-An'am: 145], and فسق is among the major sins. There is no prescribed punishment for eating them in this world, rather the ruler should impose a discretionary punishment on the perpetrator that he deems deterrent. No specific warning has been reported in the Hereafter for those who commit these sins.
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