^ Oh Subhanallah that's so funny sis

But if you dont know it, I'll tell you now, Flies aren't crunchy, just mooshy, and easy to mix up with raisin pie

Now to tie my post back into the topic before it goes too far. I have never heard of any disease out braks cause by people eating a few flies in with the raisin pie. I am not going to advocate we should start eating flies. But, it does seem there is quite a bit of evidence supporting that hadeeth.

Oddly enough I know a fly walking across food and then flying off will leave unhealthy germs and can spread disease. But, the more I think about it I have not seen any evidence of disease being spread by flies that actually fall into the food. Now it that holds up to be true, the only difference would be the flies wings also being in the food and not just it's legs or body.

I wonder have U ever eaten a fly? If the hadith says somethign then i would never deny it.. it just does't appeal to me. And it didn't say eating a fly - it's just if a fly falls in ur drink.

^ lol the hadith doesnt 4ce u to drink the water if a fly had a dip... its a general rule that there's no compulsion in eating something that disgusts you

tc salamz

Originally Posted by Asma1

I wonder have U ever eaten a fly? If the hadith says somethign then i would never deny it.. it just does't appeal to me. And it didn't say eating a fly - it's just if a fly falls in ur drink.

I don't recall ever intentionaly eating one but, living here in the south I would suspect that I have most likely swallowed a few, especialy when eating out doors.

Originally Posted by Al-Mu'minah

"Indeed what is in its wings contains the antidote." (Abu Dawud no. 3844 and Al-Bukhari no. 3320, 5782)

And modern medicine attests to its meaning.

I'd appreciate if someone could direct me to an article about this. Particularly how scientists affirm that fly's wings contains the antidote. Thank you in advance.

Originally Posted by Muslim Knight

I'd appreciate if someone could direct me to an article about this. Particularly how scientists affirm that fly's wings contains the antidote. Thank you in advance.

More recently, a Colorado State University Web site on entomology states, “Gnotobiotic [=germ-free] insects (Greenberg et al, 1970) were used to provide evidence of the bacterial pathogen-suppressing ability of the microbiota of Musca domestica [houseflies]” and “most relationships between insects and their microbiota remain undefined. Studies with gnotobiotic locusts suggest that the microbiota confers previously unexpected benefits for the insect host.”

So then, flies are not only pathogenic carriers but also carry microbiota that can be beneficent. These fly microbiota are bacteriophagic or germ-eating. Bacteriophages attack viruses and bacteria. They can be selected and bred to kill specific organisms. The viruses infect a bacterium, replicate and fill the bacterial cell with new copies of the virus, and then break through the bacterium’s cell wall, causing it to burst. The existence of similar bacteria-killing mechanisms in two bacteriophages suggests that antibiotics for human infections might be designed on the basis of these cell wall-destroying proteins (Science 292, June 2001, p. 2326-2329).

source: http://islamonline.net/English/Hadit...05/03/03.shtml

^ biology

jazaks tho.. subhanallah, now let them say the prophet got that of aristotle