The Method of Slaughter in Western Countries
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Fatwa No. ( 5234 )
Q: What is your opinion, may Allah have mercy on you, regarding the following issue: The meat exported from Denmark to Islamic Arab countries is slaughtered as follows: 1 - The animal is brought alive to the slaughterhouse prepared for it mechanically. 2 - The animal is struck with a type of gun containing a bullet at the front of its head - I sent a picture of the gun and our methods to
Your Excellency, regarding this inquiry: the bullet does not enter the head so as to touch the skin, bone, or flesh. 3 - The animal is knocked unconscious immediately after being struck, but it remains alive, moving its legs, tail, eyes, and body parts, with its heart and veins beating for a long time. 4 - After the animal is knocked unconscious, the Muslim supervisor from the Islamic Cultural Center takes a knife and slaughters the animal in the Islamic legal manner, cutting the windpipe and esophagus while saying: Bismillah, Allahu Akbar. 5 - The animal moves with force and intensity after slaughter, and the blood gushes out. 6 - All stages thereafter, up to grinding and wrapping, are under the supervision of a Muslim of sound creed, who is neither a Qadiani nor a Baha'i. Is slaughter in this manner lawful or forbidden?
A: Slaughtering animals in the manner described is lawful; due to the generality of the saying of the Exalted and Majestic:[Al-Ma'idah 5:3] . Up to His saying: [Al-Ma'idah 5:3] the verse. But striking them with a gun or anything else that involves torturing them is a blameworthy act that is
not permissible; due to the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him):Jami` at-Tirmidhi 1409Sahih (Darussalam) narrated by Ahmad and Muslim and al-Nasa'i . And success is from Allah, and may Allah send prayers and blessings upon our Prophet Muhammad, his family, and his Companions.
Q: What is your opinion, may Allah have mercy on you, regarding the following issue: The meat exported from Denmark to Islamic Arab countries is slaughtered as follows: 1 - The animal is brought alive to the slaughterhouse prepared for it mechanically. 2 - The animal is struck with a type of gun containing a bullet at the front of its head - I sent a picture of the gun and our methods to
Your Excellency, regarding this inquiry: the bullet does not enter the head so as to touch the skin, bone, or flesh. 3 - The animal is knocked unconscious immediately after being struck, but it remains alive, moving its legs, tail, eyes, and body parts, with its heart and veins beating for a long time. 4 - After the animal is knocked unconscious, the Muslim supervisor from the Islamic Cultural Center takes a knife and slaughters the animal in the Islamic legal manner, cutting the windpipe and esophagus while saying: Bismillah, Allahu Akbar. 5 - The animal moves with force and intensity after slaughter, and the blood gushes out. 6 - All stages thereafter, up to grinding and wrapping, are under the supervision of a Muslim of sound creed, who is neither a Qadiani nor a Baha'i. Is slaughter in this manner lawful or forbidden?
A: Slaughtering animals in the manner described is lawful; due to the generality of the saying of the Exalted and Majestic:
Prohibited to you are dead animals
حُرِّمَتْ عَلَيْكُمُ الْمَيْتَةُProhibited to you are dead animals, blood, the flesh of swine, and that which has been dedicated to other than Allah, and [those animals] killed by strangling or by a violent blow or by a head-long fall or by the goring of horns, and those from which a wild animal has eaten, except what you [are able to] slaughter [before its death], and those which are sacrificed on stone altars, and [prohibited is] that you seek decision through divining arrows. That is grave disobedience. This day those who disbelieve have despaired of [defeating] your religion; so fear them not, but fear Me. This day I have perfected for you your religion and completed My favor upon you and have approved for you Islam as religion. But whoever is forced by severe hunger with no inclination to sin - then indeed, Allah is Forgiving and Merciful.
إِلا مَا ذَكَّيْتُمْnot permissible; due to the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him):
Indeed Allah has decreed Ihsan in everything. So when you kill, then do the killing well, and when you slaughter, then do the slaughtering well. Let one of you sharpen his blade, and let him comfort his animal (before slaughtering).
إن الله كتب الإحسان على كل شيء، فإذا قتلتم فأحسنوا القتلة، وإذا ذبحتم فأحسنوا الذبحة، وليحد أحدكم شفرته وليرح ذبيحته
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