SubhanAllah there has been an issue going on again amongst some Muslims in regards to the Meat of the Ahl' Kitaab (Jews and Christians) being Halaal on us WITHOUT any condition!!! SUBHANALLAH !!! Even though this issue was already discussed in the following Article: The Issue of eating Meat of Ahl' Kitab BUT Astaghfirullah some sell-out Scholars, some amongst the Mur'ji ones
& some Jahil ones have still have to say
otherwise and issue fatawa too, La hawla wala quwwata Illah Billah
!!! Insha'Allah please read the linked detailed Fatawa and issues in
regards to this topic by our Scholar of Haqq.
Also
for some SubhanAllah who don't have time to click i.e
further read to gain knowledge and understanding for the sake of
Allah, we have copy pasted in brief the below IMP Points ONLY (the references on these points are in the linked file).
Bi'idhnillah share with your Muslim Ummah to correct this error Insha'Allah.
JazakAllah khair wa BarakAllahu feekum.
BRIEF:
If we have any doubt in the slaughterer or the method used to
slaughter the meat, it is considered harām. This is the case with the Western countries, Communist and Christian.
So, it is harām to eat the slaughtered meats of the Communist countries for a number of reasons:
1. They have a considerable number of atheists due to the Communist belief, and these are mixed in with the general population who are Christian in origin. So, we don’t know who slaughters, and even the non-Communist generally believes in no religion.
2. There are methods of slaughter used that oppose the Islāmic method, such as strangulation or drowning of birds, and such methods are mixed in with methods that are in accordance with the Shar’ī one.
3. They openly declare war on religion as a whole, and some countries – such as Bulgaria – forbid that the Muslims name their children with Muslim names, and they do not allow them to attend school unless they adopt the names of the disbelievers.
In fact, they do not even provide them with birth certificates if they have Muslim names. So, it would be even more expected that they would not allow the Muslims to slaughter by the Islāmic method.
So, there is uncertainty regarding their meats, whether that is of the method of slaughter or the slaughterer himself, and this makes these slaughtered meats forbidden.
1. They have a considerable number of atheists due to the Communist belief, and these are mixed in with the general population who are Christian in origin. So, we don’t know who slaughters, and even the non-Communist generally believes in no religion.
2. There are methods of slaughter used that oppose the Islāmic method, such as strangulation or drowning of birds, and such methods are mixed in with methods that are in accordance with the Shar’ī one.
3. They openly declare war on religion as a whole, and some countries – such as Bulgaria – forbid that the Muslims name their children with Muslim names, and they do not allow them to attend school unless they adopt the names of the disbelievers.
In fact, they do not even provide them with birth certificates if they have Muslim names. So, it would be even more expected that they would not allow the Muslims to slaughter by the Islāmic method.
So, there is uncertainty regarding their meats, whether that is of the method of slaughter or the slaughterer himself, and this makes these slaughtered meats forbidden.
As for the Western Christian countries, the slaughtered meats in them are harām for a number of reasons:
1.
There is a significant presence (not less than a third) of people who
do not believe in religion at all. Such people’s slaughtered meats are
not allowed, and they are
mixed in
with the rest of the population. So, the Existentialist, the
Communist, the atheist – even if they are descended from Christians –
are disbelievers who are not from the category of the People of the
Book, as Ibn ‘Abbās said: “The slaughtered meats of the Jews and
Christians are allowed because they believe in the Torah and
the Gospel.” And the percentage of atheists reaches half in some of
these countries, and even if only a fourth of the population was
atheist and their slaughtered meats were mixed with those of
others, this would be enough to make all of these meats forbidden.
2. There is a use of non-Shar’ī methods of slaughtering, especially with birds. It is established that a significant portion of slaughterhouses strangle them, stun them by electric shock, and then drown them in scalding water to kill them. I personally saw dead birds being sold in Europe with their heads and necks untouched. Some brothers and I inspected them and looked at their heads and necks, and found no sign of any cut having been made.
There is also the method of severing its spinal column. As for sheep, they use a steel bolt to cut its spinal cord, and this causes it to die. They also use bullets to kill bulls by firing them into their heads, and they slaughter them immediately afterwards, as the bull usually doesn’t die from the bullet, as its main purpose is to stun the bull and prevent it from resisting during slaughter. However, if they delay slaughtering it, it dies from the bullet.
There is also the method of striking it on the forehead with a hammer to kill it.
In any case, even if 90% of the methods used were in accordance with the Sharī’ah and only 10% of them conflicted with it, 100% of the meats would be forbidden due to the mixing of these meats with that.
3. The Catholic Church permits the consumption of the meat of animals killed by strangulation or violent blows.
Sālih ‘Alī al-‘Ūd, who lives in France, said: “I asked Father Hubuz about the methods utilized in the slaughterhouses of Paris and Europe to kill animals, and he replied: “You know that these slaughterhouses are run by the government, and they do not abide by divine law.” I then asked him about the texts that forbid carcasses and blood, and he said: “They are in the Old and New Testaments. However, the Church has ruled against abiding by them.”
2. There is a use of non-Shar’ī methods of slaughtering, especially with birds. It is established that a significant portion of slaughterhouses strangle them, stun them by electric shock, and then drown them in scalding water to kill them. I personally saw dead birds being sold in Europe with their heads and necks untouched. Some brothers and I inspected them and looked at their heads and necks, and found no sign of any cut having been made.
There is also the method of severing its spinal column. As for sheep, they use a steel bolt to cut its spinal cord, and this causes it to die. They also use bullets to kill bulls by firing them into their heads, and they slaughter them immediately afterwards, as the bull usually doesn’t die from the bullet, as its main purpose is to stun the bull and prevent it from resisting during slaughter. However, if they delay slaughtering it, it dies from the bullet.
There is also the method of striking it on the forehead with a hammer to kill it.
In any case, even if 90% of the methods used were in accordance with the Sharī’ah and only 10% of them conflicted with it, 100% of the meats would be forbidden due to the mixing of these meats with that.
3. The Catholic Church permits the consumption of the meat of animals killed by strangulation or violent blows.
Sālih ‘Alī al-‘Ūd, who lives in France, said: “I asked Father Hubuz about the methods utilized in the slaughterhouses of Paris and Europe to kill animals, and he replied: “You know that these slaughterhouses are run by the government, and they do not abide by divine law.” I then asked him about the texts that forbid carcasses and blood, and he said: “They are in the Old and New Testaments. However, the Church has ruled against abiding by them.”
4. It is not allowed to eat the meat slaughtered by one who is drunk, and a good portion of them drink alcohol.
5. Based on the principle that what can be assumed from the current reality takes precedence over what would be assumed from the original reality, the original reality is that they were People of the Book, and the current reality contradicts this. When Islām allowed for us to eat the meats of the Christians, this was because they slaughtered like the Muslims did, and they believed in ‘Īsā and their religion, and the condition was placed that it not be heard that they slaughter for anyone other than Allāh. Today, this is no longer the case.
5. Based on the principle that what can be assumed from the current reality takes precedence over what would be assumed from the original reality, the original reality is that they were People of the Book, and the current reality contradicts this. When Islām allowed for us to eat the meats of the Christians, this was because they slaughtered like the Muslims did, and they believed in ‘Īsā and their religion, and the condition was placed that it not be heard that they slaughter for anyone other than Allāh. Today, this is no longer the case.
Their
method of slaughtering sometimes goes against that of the Islāmic
one, and a significant portion of them do not even believe in their
religion. In Chicago, there were two magazines that spent six months
debating as to whether ‘Īsā actually existed or was an imaginary
personality!
As for the Jews – may Allāh’s curse be upon them – they still slaughter according to their traditions and religion, and the rabbi goes to the slaughterhouse and slaughters a large number of animals in a single day. When the meat is ready to be packaged, they write ‘Kosher (K)’ on the outside. If they fly on an airplane, they ask the airline to provide them with food that is prepared in accordance with the Jewish method of slaughter and is free of pork, and the airline writes ‘K. Meal’ on the side of the package. If only the Muslims had zeal for their religion and purchased Islāmic meals! In any case, the slaughtered meats of the Jews are allowed in the Islāmic Sharī’ah until today.
As for the Jews – may Allāh’s curse be upon them – they still slaughter according to their traditions and religion, and the rabbi goes to the slaughterhouse and slaughters a large number of animals in a single day. When the meat is ready to be packaged, they write ‘Kosher (K)’ on the outside. If they fly on an airplane, they ask the airline to provide them with food that is prepared in accordance with the Jewish method of slaughter and is free of pork, and the airline writes ‘K. Meal’ on the side of the package. If only the Muslims had zeal for their religion and purchased Islāmic meals! In any case, the slaughtered meats of the Jews are allowed in the Islāmic Sharī’ah until today.
These
slaughterhouses vary in the methods they use in slaughtering. Some of
them comply with the conditions of the Sharī’ah, while some of
them contradict them. From these methods:
1. An inch-long steel bolt is shot by gun into the forehead of the animal, and it dies and is skinned without being cut with a knife or slaughtered in any way, as was personally witnessed by brother Sālih ‘Ūd, a Tunisian brother, in two slaughterhouses in the outskirts of Paris.
2. Sālih said: “As for the chickens, they hit it with an electric current at the tip of its tongue, and this kills it. It is then dragged on the conveyor belt to have its feathers plucked.”
3. The magazine ‘al-Mujtama’’ published a great study conducted by ‘Abdullāh bin ‘Alī al-Ghasīnī in al-Qasīm, Buraydah, accompanied by pictures of chicken processing plants that slaughter and process their meat, and he concluded:
1. An inch-long steel bolt is shot by gun into the forehead of the animal, and it dies and is skinned without being cut with a knife or slaughtered in any way, as was personally witnessed by brother Sālih ‘Ūd, a Tunisian brother, in two slaughterhouses in the outskirts of Paris.
2. Sālih said: “As for the chickens, they hit it with an electric current at the tip of its tongue, and this kills it. It is then dragged on the conveyor belt to have its feathers plucked.”
3. The magazine ‘al-Mujtama’’ published a great study conducted by ‘Abdullāh bin ‘Alī al-Ghasīnī in al-Qasīm, Buraydah, accompanied by pictures of chicken processing plants that slaughter and process their meat, and he concluded:
a. A truck transports the chickens from the farm, and some of them die on the way there.
b. The chicken is hung from the ceiling by its legs, and it is then hooked to a conveyor belt, and is then moved and slaughtered by a machine upon which is inscribed ‘Slaughtered by Stunning.’ It is then moved onto a large vat upon which is written ‘Very Hot,’ and this is filled with water and steam, and the poor chicken is then dunked into this vat to breathe its last, and all of this is written in the catalog of the processing plant.
4. The magazine ‘al-Mujtama’’ published an appeal from the Muslim Youth Association in Denmark in which they said that many of the slaughtering methods used are not in accordance with the Sharī’ah.
5.
The International High Assembly for Mosques issued an advice during
its fourth seminar in Makkah to prevent the import of meat slaughtered
outside the Kingdom.
6.
The scholar ‘Abd al-‘Azīz al-Binānī, sent by the Muslim World
League to Brazil, found that the animals there were killed by
violent blows, specifically using an iron hammer to the forehead.
7. Dr. Mahmūd at-Tabbā’ visited Hanover, Germany with some Muslim brothers, and they saw that the cattle there were killed by being shot in the head.
7. Dr. Mahmūd at-Tabbā’ visited Hanover, Germany with some Muslim brothers, and they saw that the cattle there were killed by being shot in the head.
8. The noble scholar ‘Umar al-Ashqar told me: “I saw with my own eyes birds prepared to be eaten, and I saw that their heads and necks had no signs of cutting or slaughter.” And he said: “A carton of chicken was sent to Kuwait that had ‘Slaughtered Islāmically’ written on it. I opened it to find that their heads and necks were left untouched.”
He also said: “We spoke about this issue a lot in the ‘Mujtama’’ magazine, and the Kuwaiti government formed a council to tour Western slaughterhouses. So, this group went, and said upon its return: “After our tour of many slaughterhouses in the West, we saw that the number of them that slaughter in accordance with the Islāmic method is not more than 30%.” In other words, less than a third are in accordance with the Sharī’ah, and the Kuwaiti press reported this.
And after this, can it be said that it is permissible to eat the meat of animals and birds slaughtered in the West?!
The Solution
1. For the Muslims who live in the Muslim lands:
These countries must buy meat from slaughterhouses in Europe that employ Muslims who are aware and concerned with this issue. There are large Pakistani and Yemeni Muslim communities in Britain for example, and there are Tunisian, Algerian, and Moroccan communities in France.
They could also import live animals and slaughter them in their own lands, which would be quite expensive.
Another option is to import from other Muslim countries such as Turkey and Sudan, and they should provide them with funds to build meat plants with modern technology with which they can effectively slaughter their animals Islāmically.
2. For the Muslims living in the West:
They must either slaughter their own animals or make sure that what they are eating was slaughtered Islāmically. This can occur either by working together communally to slaughter their own animals and store a large amount of the meat, or by purchasing halāl meat slaughtered by Muslims there, such as the Pakistanis, even if it is the most expensive meat around. As for birds, buying them and slaughtering them should be easier, and Allāh Knows best.
As for the issue of using a tape recorder that repeats Allāh’s Name while the animal is being slaughtered, this is not allowed, as this is like praying behind a radio. Slaughtering is an act of worship, and it must be carried out by one who is sane and of sound intellect.
This is what I was able to present. If it was correct, I ask Allāh to benefit me and the Muslims with it, to grant us the ability to act upon it, and to make us love obeying and worshipping Him. If it was incorrect, I ask Allāh to overlook my mistakes, and it is sufficient that I truthfully exerted my efforts and wanted nothing but for Allāh to benefit the Muslims through this. If these words were incorrect, I ask Allāh to turn people’s hearts away from them, to make them love what is correct and true, to grant them guidance and success, and may Allāh have Mercy on a man who pointed out my mistakes to me and clarified the truth to the Muslims.
2 comments:
As salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi Wa barakatuhu
May Allah grant you all good in this life and the next I have a question in shaa Allah, with regards to those who slaughter via machine and say one basmalah for a large group of chickens for example, is this correct or must the basmalah be said upon every animal individually?
Waalaikum Assalam wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh,
The basic principle with regard to saying “Bismillah” is that it must be done for each individual animal with the intention of slaughtering it in the proper manner.
But in the case of mechanical devices that slaughter a large number of chickens within a short time period, the scholars have differed with regard to the way of saying “Bismillah” that is essential for the slaughter to be halaal. There are several opinions:
1. That it is sufficient for “Bismillah” to be said once by the person operating the machine, if it slaughters a number of chickens in one continuous time period. This is what has been stated in fatwas issued by the Standing Committee and in a statement issued by the Islamic Fiqh Council.
2. That it is sufficient for “Bismillah” to be said once by the person operating the machine, on condition that the specific chickens that he is going to slaughter are in front of him, such as if they are lined up on the conveyor belt and the like. This has been stated in fatwas issued by Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymeen.
3. That saying “Bismillah” when using these machines is not possible, therefore it is not permissible to use these machine for halaal slaughter.
The more correct view is the first one, for the following reasons:
It says in Fatawa al-Lajnah ad-Da’imah:
What is the ruling on mechanical slaughter, in which dozens of chickens are slaughtered by machines at the same time, saying “Bismillah” only once? If a person is slaughtering a large number of chickens by hand, is it acceptable for him to say “Bismillah” just once, or does he have to say it for each one individually?
Answer:
Firstly: it is permissible to slaughter using modern machines on condition that (the blades) are sharp and that the oesophagus and windpipe are cut.
Secondly: if the machine slaughters a number of chickens in the same continuous length of time, it is acceptable for the person operating the machine to say “Bismillah” once when he begins to operate it with the intention of slaughtering, so long as the person operating the machine is a Muslim or kitaabi (Jewish or Christian).
Thirdly: if the person is slaughtering by hand, he must say “Bismillah” separately for each chicken he slaughters, because each chicken is a separate entity.
Fourthly: The slaughter must be done in the slaughterhouse and the windpipe and two veins, or one of them, must be cut.
[Fatawa al-Lajnah ad-Da’imah, 22/463]
Dr. Muhammad Sulaymaan al-Ashqar said: Saying “Bismillah” in the case of a large number, if they are to be slaughtered by hand in the Islamic manner, may be exhausting for the slaughterman. For example, if a person has the task of slaughtering 1200 chickens per hour at a rate of one chicken every three seconds, then he would have to say “Bismillah wa Allahu akbar” 1200 times in an hour which would be exhausting and very difficult, and such burdensome difficulty is to be avoided in Islam because Allah says: “and has not laid upon you in religion any hardship” [22:78].
Conclusion:
1 - It is sufficient for the machine operator to say “Bismillah” when switching it on, and that must be repeated after any pause.
2 - There is no point in the five men beside the machine saying “Bismillah”; rather this is a waste of time that should be put a stop to.
3 - The organisations that supervise Islamic slaughter must pay attention to the conditions and essential guidelines on the matter, and not be careless in applying them. And they should try to arrange for the slaughter to be done by hand instead of by machines. That is so as to do away with problems having to do with electrocution and saying “Bismillah”, and so as to avoid the possibility of the slaughter of some of the chickens being done inappropriately when passing over the rotating knife, because of differences in size among the chickens. This is a problem that some researchers have pointed out.
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