If one forgets to mention the name of Allah over the slaughtered animal, we said it is not permissible to eat it. Is that not considered a form of waste?
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The questioner : If someone were to say: If we said that one who left off the mention of the name over the slaughtered animal out of ignorance or forgetfulness would be destroying wealth?
The Shaykh : Yes, fine, and destroying wealth?
The questioner : ...
The Shaykh : And if it is by the command of Allah?[Al-An'am 6:121].
The questioner : Fine, how do we reconcile this?
The Shaykh : There is no reconciliation needed, there is no contradiction such that we would say we need to reconcile, as long as He said: we do not eat.
But some people said if we say do not eat from that which the name was left off over out of forgetfulness, we would waste a lot of wealth, because forgetfulness happens often.
We said this statement or this objection is like the objection of some people regarding cutting off the hand for theft, saying if we cut off the hand for theft, half the people would become paralyzed and disfigured, especially the one whose right hand is cut off, how would people manage? These objections are not valid.
And there is a third objection: He said if we killed the murderer intentionally, we would increase the taking of souls, the one killed was one and now it becomes two. We say these objections are nothing but argumentation like the argumentation of the polytheists regarding 'Isa when they said:[Az-Zukhruf 43:58] why should our gods be in the Fire, and 'Isa not be in the Fire? Allah the Exalted said: [Az-Zukhruf 43:58] We say this is argumentation.
Otherwise, if we say to this man the one who left off the name, do not eat it, and then he takes his sheep to the dogs, he will never return to leaving off the name again. He will mention the name from the day he turns to the slaughtered animal before he proceeds to slaughter, fearing he might forget, is that not so?
Because he cannot forget the loss that occurred in his heart, which might be a sheep worth two hundred riyals or three hundred riyals, it might be a camel worth a thousand riyals, he cannot ever forget it.
The thief also, if we cut off the hand of one, dozens or hundreds or thousands will refrain from theft. Killing, if we kill the murderer intentionally, dozens or hundreds or thousands will refrain from killing likewise. For this reason, Allah the Exalted said:[Al-Baqarah 2:179].
The Shaykh : Yes, fine, and destroying wealth?
The questioner : ...
The Shaykh : And if it is by the command of Allah?
do not eat of that upon which the name of Allah has not been mentioned
لا تأكلوا مما لم يذكر اسم الله عليهThe questioner : Fine, how do we reconcile this?
The Shaykh : There is no reconciliation needed, there is no contradiction such that we would say we need to reconcile, as long as He said:
Do not eat
لا تأكلواBut some people said if we say do not eat from that which the name was left off over out of forgetfulness, we would waste a lot of wealth, because forgetfulness happens often.
We said this statement or this objection is like the objection of some people regarding cutting off the hand for theft, saying if we cut off the hand for theft, half the people would become paralyzed and disfigured, especially the one whose right hand is cut off, how would people manage? These objections are not valid.
And there is a third objection: He said if we killed the murderer intentionally, we would increase the taking of souls, the one killed was one and now it becomes two. We say these objections are nothing but argumentation like the argumentation of the polytheists regarding 'Isa when they said:
Are your gods better, or is he?
أألهتنا خير أم هوThey did not present the comparison except for [mere] argument. But, [in fact], they are a people prone to dispute.
ما ضربوه لك إلا جدلا بل هم قوم خصمونOtherwise, if we say to this man the one who left off the name, do not eat it, and then he takes his sheep to the dogs, he will never return to leaving off the name again. He will mention the name from the day he turns to the slaughtered animal before he proceeds to slaughter, fearing he might forget, is that not so?
Because he cannot forget the loss that occurred in his heart, which might be a sheep worth two hundred riyals or three hundred riyals, it might be a camel worth a thousand riyals, he cannot ever forget it.
The thief also, if we cut off the hand of one, dozens or hundreds or thousands will refrain from theft. Killing, if we kill the murderer intentionally, dozens or hundreds or thousands will refrain from killing likewise. For this reason, Allah the Exalted said: