Slaughtered Meat in Islam - Detailed Overview | Mufti Abu Layth

there's oh well there's only two questions here one is by is isa ali is deer and rabbit meat from supermarkets halal rabbits die by suffocation when they are caught in sneers last week he said using snares is fine well if i knew well if i knew that you were gonna keep tabs on me i wouldn't have said it

is allah an atheist what right so okay yeah so deer and rabbit meat you know this halal meat thing is a whole huge discussion in and of itself that has many layers to it okay i do feel it's a it's a complex discussion that what is when i say halal it's actually not the best word the beer is a better word okay because the birha speaks of

uh the birha will speak of things like um just moving this along one moment let me bring that up to there all right so zabir ham is slaughtered or sacrificed meat now this you know to many people is like saying well yeah that's what they refer to when they say halal the question with that or the problem is that halal means which is permitted now many

things are halal but they're not sacrificed and i spoke as an example fishing is not you know anything from the sea any hunted animal isn't actually sacrificed ritually speaking it's just halal so what do i think of the behamid i i'm definitely um supportive in support of the the hamid but i feel that in essence the bihamid had an objective and it had two it was double layered the primary layer

of the primary focus of the bihamid was to create a distinction between muslims and non-muslims the polytheists of the prophet's time in the prophet's time the muslim of the arab and other parts of the world would offer sacrifices to their pagan gods now any meat that they used to offer it became obligatory for muslims to demarcate and distinguish their offerings by always mentioning the name of god

upon sacrificing those animals now this was the primary focus now those people the polytheists of of arabia did not used to offer wild animals as offerings so wild or offer fishes for example marine food it wasn't something um you know sea food wasn't an offering it was only kind of docile docile uh creatures gold sheep camels cows maybe things like that that were offered

they didn't have chickens by the way so in the prophet's surroundings in that part of arabia generally speaking chickens were not found so i'm not saying chickens didn't exist of course they existed in the world but they weren't in abundance in arabia not in the hedgers so hence you don't see the prophet speaking about chickens or speaking about things like uh chicken food often or things like that but the companions do speak about chickens later on as they branch out as they move towards

other parts of uh the middle east and things like that byzantine territory when they take over they conquer the persian territories they do find chickens and things like that hence some of them speak about then sacrificing a chicken for eid whereas the prophet would never have said that now the prophet wouldn't have said um about sacrificing chickens or things like this and i know it became a debate um between the selfies and i know it became a debate between the selfies and

the rest of the methods because they spoke about you can sacrifice chickens and on on biggie then you can do this and people turned it into a kind of mockery but yeah but coming back to the point so in the prophet's time they the animals that were given as pagan offerings muslims were mandated to always mention allah's name before sacrificing them this was the kind of the the fine point of demarcation the kind of delineating factor that

distinguished muslims from kuffar especially muslim now the issue was okay what about hunting well because they never that was never a pagan offering so muslims were not obligated to kind of make a sacrifice of them or ritual that it's okay yeah fine mention allah's name but you just need to shoot an arrow you don't even need to shoot an arrow you can send a hunting dog and the dog would kill the animal so you know even if you say look with an arrow one could say okay you said

bismillah as you let go of the arrow fine but when you release a dog and you say bismillah allahu akbar you know the dog has to chase after the prey and the prey would run for its life literally and the dog would have to catch it now they would be easily you know they may be a few minutes laps be between the dog actually catching the prey and between you saying bismillah so that was it was then just a kind of like a gesture hence you get sometimes uh some people didn't say bismillah

like maybe they forgot or maybe they slacked or maybe they and there was the verse of the quran that you know do not eat from that which allah's name has not been mentioned above there is this verse of the quran but is this speaking of the pagan food or is it speaking of all food so you have the hadith that some of the arabs they came to the prophet and said well look we've got this meat and they gave some meat and the prophet was distributing it and somebody said well you know when they sacrificed it they forgot to say they didn't say bismillah and the prophet said well

but they muslim so it's fine the prophet said say bismillah eat because the prophet knew that the prophet knew that there is no the polytheist factor doesn't exist here so this is why it was really just all about particular animals that were offerings pagan offerings wild animals were never really all these kind of things like rabbits and lizards and i don't know whatever turtles and this kind of stuff were never offering

so they didn't really seem to care much about them they said yeah say bismillah but it wasn't really anywhere on the radar so hmm the next layer of the bihamid is that it creates an identity factor this identity glues together a muslim collective so we worldwide now feel that we have some connection with each other we all eat halal or the meat this kind of creates a a kind of bond so the identity factor

still remains today however the first factor i feel isn't actually a present today because nobody really makes pagan offerings anymore apart from you know nobody offers animals to their gods apart from muslims and jews and but that's it people of the book but generally speaking people don't do that anymore so hmm so this brings into question this whole thing of could you eat the meat from like in these countries and things like this what i would say is that or could you eat for example somebody

has asked hunted meat so i would say that look the identity factor still remains so it is very important i feel to stress that halal kind of the biha meet and to generally always go by that that is my kind of advice as muslims to always generally go by that however this other meat like rabbit meat that was hunted or deer meat or things like this i would feel that it isn't whether it's good or not maybe a debate but i wouldn't feel that it would be

haram because it wouldn't fall under any of those categories of like an offering and it's seen as kind of almost like exotic meat so i hope that makes some sense in what i'm trying to say that look halal in brackets or in speech markets that be hamit should always should still be a priority for muslims and it should be something that we support and are behind and what we eat generally speaking however these other meats like things that are hunted or things that are even if they're done by non-muslims

would it make it haram i would say well because it doesn't really fall under either it doesn't definitely not a pagan offering meat and it's it's not really considered an identity thing to that extent like rabbit me because you don't really offer it as a sacrifice anyway so if somebody else hunted it and they weren't muslim but they weren't hunting in the name of i don't know i don't know in the name of zeus or in the name of something like that darius or something then it's it doesn't really it's not so much of an issue that's what i would feel so

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