Recordings › Can we eat non halal burgers? | Mufti Abu Layth · 26 Jan 2021 › Segment 1 of 1
Is it haram to eat meat that is not halal-slaughtered, like a non-halal burger?
udhiyah qurbani qurbaani udhiya udhiyya kurbani muftis halaal permitted lawful haraam forbidden koran quraan al-quranEating meat that is not dhabiha: the purpose of halal slaughter today
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machinesummary, machine-writtenEating meat that is not dhabiha is not haram in Mufti Abu Layth's view, because its original purpose of separating Muslims from pagan sacrifice has lapsed. He still supports and advocates halal meat for its identity value and eats it himself.
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The clip opens on Mufti Abu Layth's answer to a question about eating meat that is not dhabiha, such as non-halal burgers. He says that according to the Quran all chicken and beef is in principle halal, and refers to a detailed clip he has made on dhabiha, where he argued that its primary purpose was to demarcate Muslims from those who offered their slaughter to pagan gods, a practice that has largely disappeared today, while its secondary purpose, identity, remains. He says he supports and advocates halal meat because of the identity factor, but that if a person ate other meat, for example while travelling, he does not feel it would be haram, since the primary factor has disappeared. A follow-up from the chat asks whether he really said this, and he repeats that he supports, endorses and eats halal meat at home, that the detailed clip does the topic more justice, and that he is only saying the primary reason has lapsed.
Question as read aloud · questioner not identifiedCan we eat non-halal burgers, meat that is not dhabiha?
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Position stated
Mufti Abu Layth holds that eating meat that is not dhabiha is not haram today, because the primary purpose of halal slaughter, distinguishing Muslims from those who offered meat to pagan gods, has lapsed, while he still supports and advocates halal meat for its remaining identity value.
“if a person ate it i i don't feel it would be haram but i feel because of the identity factor we should stick to halal meat”
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okay according to the quran there's no such thing as the bihami right meaning all forms of chicken and beef are halal because it sounds pretty backwards right i have a very detailed clip on um on the hamit and what are my thoughts on it and it was more about creating it was more about demarcating and creating a difference between those who make these offerings to pagan gods so muslims won't today in the world
that doesn't really happen and muslims pretty much along with jewish people are very few in the world that still make offerings of their food as in sacrifice the meat so i have spoken about the the nature of halal meat that is primary purpose was the differentiation which has dissipated today um and isn't really there generally speaking and the secondary purpose was identity which is still there so therefore i do support
halal the bihamid i do advocate for that but i do understand that because most of the other meat isn't the primary purpose isn't there so if a person ate it i i don't feel it would be haram but i feel because of the identity factor we should stick to halal meat okay so for the most part generally i would personally do that but if you were somewhere you're traveling or you're doing something
and you know it's you ate the other meat let's say non the beer hamid i don't feel it would be haram because the primary factor has disappeared the secondary identity factor remains which i still feel is an important factor so i do support it and i am in favor of it and i do advocate it i hope that helps but i've got a more detailed very detailed elaborate clip i'll try and make sure it is a clip if it isn't cool
um all right so somebody says is it true somebody said yeah you see the thing is that i've got a detailed clip if you watch that it makes more sense rather than here i'm not doing justice to the topic but i go into in detail i do advocate for it i do say i do support halal meet i do endorse that that's what we get i get at home
i don't uh go for nanthabihami but i'm just saying that the primary factor has disappeared today so yeah so i am clearly in support of it but i'm just saying that i don't think it's uh
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Mufti Abu Layth. (2021, January 26). Is it haram to eat meat that is not halal-slaughtered, like a non-halal burger? [Video, segment 2021-01-26-S01, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/p4qg7z3o8k4/s/1/
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Mufti Abu Layth. 2021. "Is it haram to eat meat that is not halal-slaughtered, like a non-halal burger?" Video, segment 2021-01-26-S01, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Recorded January 26, 2021. Accessed November 1, 2026. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/p4qg7z3o8k4/s/1/
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@misc{abulayth-2021-01-26-S01, author = {Mufti Abu Layth}, title = {{Is it haram to eat meat that is not halal-slaughtered, like a non-halal burger?}}, year = {2021}, month = {1}, date = {2021-01-26}, howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/p4qg7z3o8k4/s/1/}}, url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/p4qg7z3o8k4/s/1/}, organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive}, urldate = {2026-11-01}, note = {Segment 2021-01-26-S01, auto-transcribed, may contain errors} }
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