Everyday Halal Living

My mother worked while I was growing up. I saw her trying her best to be the domestic mom who volunteered for everything from homeroom mother, to driving mom on class field trips, to baking sweets for holidays and shopping for teacher gifts. She hand-cleaned my clothes and sun dried them till they were crispy white, then pressed each garment to perfection. The house was spotless and you really could eat off her floor. On top of that, she cooked homemade meals (the gourmet crock pot varieties on the weekend), planted flowers in our yard and decorated our home so that it was the one place in the world I would come to love the most.

Did you know……….

• More than 2 million people die each year of waterborne diseases , mostly children under the age of 5 years old?
• The world is running out of fresh water?
• Without water we have no society, no economy?
• We humans are 70% water and 30% solids and have a water cycle within us, just like the Earth?
• About 40% of the illnesses you think are stomach flus or viruses are actually caused by polluted water?

We always buy Tom’s of Maine tootpaste, foremost because we know there are no haram (impermissible) ingredients in it- plus it is the best-’tasting’ toothpaste out of the permissible ones I’ve tried. I just never realized that they are actually certified halal, until just now.

I was doing a search on halal products and came across this link to the Tom’s of Maine website where there is a product certification page. Scroll down and find the IFANCA symbol (crescent with an ‘M’), and a brief description of what halal means.