The Ruling on Dealing with a Butcher Who Does Not Pray

Question:
Our brother also asks and says: If the butcher does not pray and does not fast, how should one deal with him according to the Shari'ah?

Answer:
One who does not pray and does not fast should not be made a butcher, and you should not buy a slaughtered animal from him; he should be prevented from butchering, and the rulers must prevent him. No one should take on the role of butcher except a known Muslim who performs the prayer and stays away from everything that compromises his religion. This is the obligatory duty of the rulers in every land, and that no one should take on the role of butcher except a Muslim known for his religion, his trustworthiness, and his performance of the prayer. Therefore, no polytheist should take it on, and no one who abandons the prayer should take it on; because abandoning the prayer is major shirk (associating partners with Allah) in the most correct of the scholars' opinions. So it is obligatory for the rulers in every land of the Muslims to be careful that the one who takes on the role of butcher is a Muslim. Yes.