Question
I live in Canada. Recently a controversy has developed regarding the status of the meat. Some say that the meat in Canada, which is machine-slaughtered, is halaal. Others say it is haraam. Those who contend that it is halaal claim that according to Mufti Taqi Usmani who had visited the c o u n t r y, m a c h i n e - slaughtering is permissible and the meat is halaal. Please enlighten us on this issue. Is the meat slaughtered by a machine halaal?
Answer
In Canada there is a Muslim who has a chicken franchise known as Popyes. Initially he had 20 outlets. This is now down to 3 or 4 outlets due to the non-availability of halaal chickens. The franchise insists on machine slaughtering.
When Mufti Taqi Sahib had visited Canada he had verbally
said that machine slaughtering with certain conditions is permissible. This was a grievous error. ISNA (Islamic Societies of North America) who are modernists and followers of Maududi, capitalized on Mufti Taqi's fatwa. However, Mufti Taqi retracted his erroneous fatwa with a written fatwa in which he retracted the permissibility and declared machine slaughtering impermissible.
Despite Mufti Taqi's written retraction, the modernist ISNA refused to accept it and clung, like a dog on a bone, on to the earlier verbal fatwa.
Since the meat in Canada and in other European countries are the yield of machine-killing, it is haraam carrion. Abstain from eating commercially killed meat and chickens.
- Source
- themajlis.co.za
- Published in
- The Majlis Vol 22 No 01
- PDF page
- 6
Appears under HARAAM CANADIAN CARRION (approximate).