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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The Ruling on Frozen Meat

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Question:
May Allah reward you. Your Eminence, the father, the questioner says: Regarding the saying of Allah the Exalted
He has only forbidden to you dead animals, blood, the flesh of swine, and that which has been dedicated to other than Allahإِنَّمَا حَرَّمَ عَلَيْكُمُ الْمَيْتَةَ وَالدَّمَ وَلَحْمَ الْخِنزِيرِ وَمَا أُهِلَّ بِهِ لِغَيْرِ اللَّهِ
[Al-Baqarah 2:173]
, some contemporary exegetes say that frozen meat is forbidden because it falls under this verse. He says: May Allah reward you, some contemporary exegetes say that frozen meat is forbidden.

Answer:
Frozen meat. Because it falls under this verse. Which verse? The saying of Allah the Exalted
He has only forbidden to you dead animals, blood, the flesh of swine, and that which has been dedicated to other than Allahإِنَّمَا حَرَّمَ عَلَيْكُمُ الْمَيْتَةَ وَالدَّمَ وَلَحْمَ الْخِنزِيرِ وَمَا أُهِلَّ بِهِ لِغَيْرِ اللَّهِ
[Al-Baqarah 2:173]
. If his intention is that it was slaughtered in a manner other than the Shari'ah method, using electric shock, or by smoking and shooting with guns until it dies, then yes, there is a doubt surrounding this, that they do not slaughter, they do not perform the Shari'ah slaughter; rather, they slaughter by electric shock, by shooting with guns, and by electric smoking, then they cut it up and can it. Yes. Perhaps he intends this. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [1103- 4717] ما صحة الاستدلال بقوله تعالى :﴿إنما حرم عليكم الميتة والدم ...) على حرمة اللحم المجمد؟ — youtube.com

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