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UNDERSTANDING WHY COMMERCIAL MEAT IS GENERALLY HARAAM
Let us use the analogy of Salaat. Salaat has about six actions to make the Salaat valid. For males the minimum area of the body that has to be covered is from the naval to the knee. Now if we had to see our child wearing a Bermuda pants that covered this area and performing Salaat with these basic actions, would we accept it and keep quiet about it? If the Imaam of the Masjid were to perform Salaat in this manner, will we accept it? If this Imaam were to tell us that it is fine because the basic Faraaid have been fulfilled and that Salaat will be performed in this manner from now on to attract people to the Musjid, will we accept him as our Imaam in Salaat? Will we turn a blind eye to others coming to the Musjid dressed like this and performing Salaat like this?
Furthermore Salaat has preconditions such as Wudu and facing Qibla for its validity. Even if the Faraaid of Salaat were fulfilled in a hastily performed Salaat with bare minimum, due to severe illness, Tahaarat (purification of Wudu or bath) and facing Qibla is still required or the Salaat will not be valid.
Zabaa (Islamic method of slaughtering) also has a method just like Salaat has a method. It also has a few fard actions to make it valid. But is the Fard enough? Zabaa also has preconditions for validity.
So let us analyse how commercial meat is made and how so called Zabaa takes place. Animals are treated with cruelty, they are stunned and shocked, dragged and pushed, tasmiya is made hastily and omitted in many instances, they are hung upside down, they are sometimes (in fact much of the time) slaughtered when already dead, the slaughterer does not always face Qibla. But we are told that these things do not invalidate the Zabaa. We are told that the basic or Faraaid of Zabaa is met so the meat is Halaal because the required neck vessels are cut (and this also is not always the case.)
How is it possible for the Salaat we mentioned to be acceptable? So how can we accept this vile “Zabaa” to be valid? Other irregularities that make the meat Haraam are many but are dismissed as “mere technicalities.
We advise Muslims to refrain from commercial meat products using Aql or intelligence and your conscience as a gauge. Eat meat less! Save and make your own Zabaa. Get together with friends and neighbours, pool money and slaughter your own meat. We had mad cow disease not long ago and then avian flu. Muslims could not be paid to eat commercial meat then! This is mad haraam authority disease but like we explained previously, because it does not apparently affect us physically (or rather it does but we don’t see immediate effects), we don’t treat the matter seriously.
If we continue not taking these matters seriously it will eventually destroy our health and Imaan!
This is Haq.
It is for you the reader to decide.
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