Tuesday, May 22, 2018
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Islamic teaching becomes a religion full of goodness. All that is in Islamic law, has a good impact for all humans. Not only for Muslims, but also for the entire universe.
In terms of food, Islamic religion is required to eat the food that the toyyiban stuff. All food that goes into the belly of Muslims must be good and lawful. Good food, including how to get to how to process food. Plus, the food must be halal, that is food that is not forbidden by Allah SWT and through the halal process as well, not dzolim other party.
Whatever the circumstances, Muslims should eat halal food. Should not even eat unlawful food. Because besides being prohibited by Allah SWT, will also have a negative impact on the body. Usually illicit food will make the body vulnerable to illness and less good for health. So, so important is the halal food for Muslims.
As in Surat An-Nahl: 114
Allah SWT says:
فكلوا مما رزقكم الله حللا الله ان كنتم اياه تعبدون
"So eat the lawful good from the sustenance that God has given you, and thank God's blessings if you only worship Him."
(Surat an-Nahl 16: Verse 114)
Therefore it is forbidden to eat the forbidden. As in the letter of al-maidah: 3
Allah SWT says:
حرمت عليكم الميتة والدم ولحم الخنزير وما اهل لغير الله به والمنخنقة والموقوذة والمتردية والنطيحة وما اكل السبع الا ما ذكيتم وما ذ بح على النصب وان تستقسموا بالازلام ذ لكم فسق اليوم يئس الذين كفروا من دينكم فلا تخشوهم واخشون ا ليوم اكملت لكم دينكم وا تممت عليكم نعمتي ورضيت لكم الاسلام دينا فم ن اضطر في مخمصة غير متجانف لاثم فان الله غفور رحيم
"Forbidden to you (eat) carrion, blood, pork, and (meat) of animals slaughtered not upon (name) God, the choked, the smitten, the fallen, the gored, and the beast attacked, (And forbidden) to be slaughtered for idols, and (forbidden) to draw fate with azlam (arrow) (for) it is a wicked deed, and today the unbelievers have despaired of your religion. do not be afraid of them, but fear Me, I have perfected your religion for you today, and I have sufficed my favor for you, and I have accepted Islam as your religion, but whoever is hungry not for sin, then truly, Allah is Forgiving, Most Merciful. "
(Surah Al-Ma'idah 5: Verse 3)
In Muslim-majority countries, it would be easy to find a food that is a halal toyyiban. Where the place definitely provides halal and good food. Another case with a country with a minority Muslims. It must be hard to find a halal and good food. Very few sell halal food.
But do not worry, with the development of technology problems of halal food in the country of Islamic minorities can be solved. A chatbot has been developed that allows Muslim tourists to find halal food while in other countries. This technology is called Sofia.
Sofia is claimed to be able to show Halal food places for 24 hours a week. Plus the technology is applicable in various parts of the world. Sofia was born to incorporate Azure's cloud technology from Microsoft and the Language Understanding Intelligence Services (LUIS) technology. Sofia pinned on the Have Halal platform, Will Travel (HHWT).
HHWT is a content platform that helps every Muslim traveler to travel confidently without the help of a tour guide.
Sofia's background in the creation of this technology has found it difficult to find information about halal food in South Korea. Although there is information that shows the place of kosher food dish, still the place is hard to find. So for Muslims there, when deciding to eat halal food based solely on information.
The creator is Mikhail Goh. He is a Muslim who has studied in South Korea for 5 years. He currently lives in Singapore. In a state of confusion seeking a halal eating place, Mikhail Goh managed to make technology useful for Muslims around the world.
The creation of Sofia is useful as a place for Muslims to ask questions about halal food. Questions that can actually be answered easily through automation.
The interaction that exists between the user and Sofia, helping HHWT can analyze and explain the responses and feedback for each content. The content provided, it is said, is more personalized for each individual user.
Azure cloud platform is equipped with application programming interface (API) for QnA Maker; which is the foundation for making answers to frequently asked questions. Meanwhile, LUIS from Microsoft allows chatbot designers to answer various questions based on the description of some existing data then analyzed to get the best answer.
In addition, Sofia also has the ability of decesion tree, which allows users to narrow down the answers they seek. Sofia is also continuously seeking progress, by designing answers without seeking clarification and more specific answers.
With the Azure cloud scalability, and also the LUIS that runs the Sofia chatbot, HHWT aspires to expand to more countries in Southeast Asia and beyond. Currently, HHWT already reaches more than nine million Muslims in Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia every month.
So, do not worry anymore when traveling to different countries and do not know halal food to eat? Sofia has an answer to the problem of halal food for Muslims around the world. May be useful.
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