"being a muslim is it permissbale to eat non-zabiha meat? if yes, what they are?
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What is non-Zabiha meat
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there is no one (no idol, no person, no
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nobody!) worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that
Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 5 Surah
Maidah verse 3:
3 Forbidden to you (for food) are: dead meat, blood, the flesh of
swine, and that on which hath been invoked the name of other than Allah, that
which hath been killed by strangling, or by a violent blow, or by a headlong
fall, or by being gored to death; that which hath been (partly) eaten by a wild
animal; unless ye are able to slaughter it, that which is sacrificed on stone
(altars); (forbidden) also is the division (of meat) by raffling with arrows:
that is impiety. This day have those who
reject faith given up all hope of your religion: yet fear them not but fear
Me. This day have I perfected your
religion for you completed my favor upon you and have chosen for you Islam as
your religion. But if any forced by
hunger with no inclination to transgression Allah is indeed Oft-Forgiving Most
Merciful.
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 6 Surah
Anaam verse 145:
145 Say: "I find not in the Message received to me by inspiration
any (meat) forbidden to be eaten by one who wishes to eat it unless it be dead
meat, or blood poured forth, or the flesh of swine, for it is an abomination or
what is impious (meat) on which a name has been invoked other than
Allah's." But (even so) if a person
is forced by necessity without wilful disobedience nor transgressing due limits
thy Lord is Oft-Forgiving Most Merciful
‘Zabiha’ or ‘slaughtered’ meat would be the meat that
fulfills all the requirements of
Your
Question: my question is "being a muslim is it permissbale to eat
non-zabiha meat? if yes, what they are?
Allah's Messenger (saws) said, "Two
types of animals which have died a natural death and two types of blood have
been made allowable to us (believers to consume as food): the two which die a
natural death being the fish and the locust, and the two types of
blood being the liver and the spleen."
Sunan of Abu-Dawood Hadith 83 Narrated by
A man asked the Messenger of Allah (saws): ‘O
Messenger of Allah (saws), we travel on the sea and take a small quantity of
water with us. If we use this for ablution, we would suffer from thirst. Can we
perform ablution with sea water?’ The Messenger (saws) replied: ‘Its water is
pure and what dies in it is lawful food.’
The only non-zabiha meat which are lawful for the
believers to consume as food are all animals that live in the sea and
locusts. All other lawful animals have
to be duely slaughtered according to Shariah for their flesh to be lawful for
the believers to consume as food.
Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only due to
Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me alone. Allah Alone Knows Best and He is the Only
Source of Strength.
Your brother and well wisher in
Islam,
Burhan
Wister