In modern slaughterhouses, they place large numbers of sheep on advanced machines, then electrocute them—without killing them—so that they do not move.
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The questioner : Regarding collective slaughter—for example—thousand sheep at one time, with a single invocation of the name of Allah?!
The Shaykh : How at one time, how does it become?
The questioner : I mean, the sheep enter in a specific way, a thousand sheep, their heads are placed in a specific way, a sword comes down and cuts their heads at one time?!
Another questioner : These, our Shaykh, are like the electric shock, this is like what they use now in modern slaughterhouses, they place—for example—a thousand sheep and a single electric shock comes down on them, like what is used to anesthetize the sheep, they all come down to the slaughterhouse, the thousand sheep are spread out in one spread, Shaykh!
The Shaykh : I wanted to know this picture, I have not heard of it, how does it come down?
The questioner : It exists, they place a thousand or a hundred at one time and slaughter them, not each one... I mean, a large knife comes down like a saw?
Another questioner : The machines!
Another questioner : A large knife that slaughters a thousand sheep in one second, not each one saying: In the name of Allah, and the questioner's question yesterday asked me about this and this.
The Shaykh : I want to understand the picture.
The questioner : Shaykh, I entered a slaughterhouse here in Amman!
The Shaykh : Be patient, how are the thousand slaughtered animals, are they placed on top of each other?
The questioner : No, no, on a conveyor belt, there is a moving conveyor belt, they electrocute them with electricity as the brother said, so they stop moving, but they have not died, so when they stop moving they sleep in a specific way, so all their heads are on this conveyor belt, it comes down from above like a wood saw, like this, it comes down from above, or is he slaughtering the thousand in one second! They are sleeping next to each other, and the sword or knife comes down on them all at once, I mean, like this, like the fingers, our Shaykh, like the fingers, it comes down like this, they slaughter them.
The Shaykh : Yes, I understood this, but I was imagining from your words something other than the sequence, this is like the airport conveyor belts.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : This is what you are saying, and there is exaggeration in what was said, meaning that it is in a minute or a second, there is exaggeration, but the important thing is not here, the important thing is whether this is permissible by the Shari'ah? Of course, if the slaughter takes place in all of them in the place of slaughter, first, and the name of Allah is invoked on each one of them, and the slaughterer is a Muslim; then this is permissible, otherwise it is a slaughter and the name of Allah was not mentioned on it.
The questioner : May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh : How at one time, how does it become?
The questioner : I mean, the sheep enter in a specific way, a thousand sheep, their heads are placed in a specific way, a sword comes down and cuts their heads at one time?!
Another questioner : These, our Shaykh, are like the electric shock, this is like what they use now in modern slaughterhouses, they place—for example—a thousand sheep and a single electric shock comes down on them, like what is used to anesthetize the sheep, they all come down to the slaughterhouse, the thousand sheep are spread out in one spread, Shaykh!
The Shaykh : I wanted to know this picture, I have not heard of it, how does it come down?
The questioner : It exists, they place a thousand or a hundred at one time and slaughter them, not each one... I mean, a large knife comes down like a saw?
Another questioner : The machines!
Another questioner : A large knife that slaughters a thousand sheep in one second, not each one saying: In the name of Allah, and the questioner's question yesterday asked me about this and this.
The Shaykh : I want to understand the picture.
The questioner : Shaykh, I entered a slaughterhouse here in Amman!
The Shaykh : Be patient, how are the thousand slaughtered animals, are they placed on top of each other?
The questioner : No, no, on a conveyor belt, there is a moving conveyor belt, they electrocute them with electricity as the brother said, so they stop moving, but they have not died, so when they stop moving they sleep in a specific way, so all their heads are on this conveyor belt, it comes down from above like a wood saw, like this, it comes down from above, or is he slaughtering the thousand in one second! They are sleeping next to each other, and the sword or knife comes down on them all at once, I mean, like this, like the fingers, our Shaykh, like the fingers, it comes down like this, they slaughter them.
The Shaykh : Yes, I understood this, but I was imagining from your words something other than the sequence, this is like the airport conveyor belts.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : This is what you are saying, and there is exaggeration in what was said, meaning that it is in a minute or a second, there is exaggeration, but the important thing is not here, the important thing is whether this is permissible by the Shari'ah? Of course, if the slaughter takes place in all of them in the place of slaughter, first, and the name of Allah is invoked on each one of them, and the slaughterer is a Muslim; then this is permissible, otherwise it is a slaughter and the name of Allah was not mentioned on it.
The questioner : May Allah reward you with good.
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