The Ruling on Eating the Slaughtered Animals of the People of the Book
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Question:
The questioner says: Honorable Shaykh, what is your view on the meat that comes from the churches to the Christians? And is it required that the name of Allah be mentioned over it, or is it sufficient that it is their food, in which case it becomes lawful for us, as is apparent from the Qur'an[Al-Ma'idah 5:5]? And if Allah mentioned in the Qur'an that they say [Al-Ma'idah 5:73], how can it be required that the name of Allah be mentioned over it?
Answer:
Allah (Mighty and Majestic) has made lawful for us the slaughtered animals of the People of the Book, the Jews and the Christians, but on the condition that they slaughter them according to the Shari'ah method, by cutting the jugular veins, the esophagus, and the windpipe; this is the lawful slaughter. However, if they slaughter them by electric shock, hot water, or fumigation until they die, and then cut them up, this is forbidden, even if a Muslim did it; it would not be lawful. How much more so if a Jew or a Christian did it?
Nothing is lawful except by lawful slaughter. Allah the Exalted said: “except what you slaughter”[Al-Ma'idah 5:3]. So nothing is made lawful except what is slaughtered. Therefore, what is not slaughtered with the lawful slaughter is not lawful, whether it comes from the Jews, the Christians, or the Muslims; it is not lawful except by lawful slaughter. If a person asks a scholar for a fatwa, it is not sufficient for us to say, “This is their food.” If they eat what is forbidden, we do not eat what is forbidden. But their food, if they mention the lawful invocations, is made lawful for us.
The questioner says: Honorable Shaykh, what is your view on the meat that comes from the churches to the Christians? And is it required that the name of Allah be mentioned over it, or is it sufficient that it is their food, in which case it becomes lawful for us, as is apparent from the Qur'an
and the food of those who were given the Scripture is lawful for you
وَطَعَامُ الَّذِينَ أُوتُوا الْكِتَابَ حِلٌّ لَّكُمْAllah is the third of three
إِنَّ اللَّهَ ثَالِثُ ثَلَاثَةٍAnswer:
Allah (Mighty and Majestic) has made lawful for us the slaughtered animals of the People of the Book, the Jews and the Christians, but on the condition that they slaughter them according to the Shari'ah method, by cutting the jugular veins, the esophagus, and the windpipe; this is the lawful slaughter. However, if they slaughter them by electric shock, hot water, or fumigation until they die, and then cut them up, this is forbidden, even if a Muslim did it; it would not be lawful. How much more so if a Jew or a Christian did it?
Nothing is lawful except by lawful slaughter. Allah the Exalted said: “except what you slaughter”
Prohibited 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]
حُرِّمَتْ عَلَيْكُمُ الْمَيْتَةُ وَالدَّمُ وَلَحْمُ الْخِنزِيرِ وَمَا أُهِلَّ لِغَيْرِ اللَّهِ بِهِ وَالْمُنْخَنِقَةُ وَالْمَوْقُوذَةُ وَالْمُتَرَدِّيَةُ وَالنَّطِيحَةُ وَمَا أَكَلَ السَّبُعُ إِلَّا مَا ذَكَّيْتُمْ
Source
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