OPINION - When Haram Can Become Halal – Part II

First article :  http://islamicfinanceindonesia.blogspot.com/2010/12/opinion-when-haram-can-become-halal.html

Be Guided by the Natural Senses

By Dr. Wan Azhar Wan Ahmad, Senior Fellow / Director, Center for the Study of Syariah, Law and Politics, Institute of Islamic Understanding Malaysia (IKIM)

This is a corollary, a continuation of my earlier article, “When Haram Can Become Halal,” published by The Star on December 7. These two pieces must be read together before one can make any appropriate conclusion on the subject matter discussed. The entire issue is extremely sensitive to Muslims and technical in nature. Thus readers are to go through the whole writing with patience and passion to the very end.

OPINION - When haram can become Halal

If a prohibited food product undergoes trans­formation that changes its properties or attributes to the point that it becomes a different product, it is no longer forbidden.

IKIM VIEWS by DR WAN AZHAR WAN AHMAD

In Islam, a highly authentic prophetic tradition (hadith) prescribes that generally things are divisible into three categories; the lawful (halal), the unlawful (haram) and the doubtful (mushtabihat).

While the first two are evident, i.e. clearly spelled out by the sources of syariah, the third is not.
(follow up article HERE).