Can we eat anything from ouside in USA?
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Meat in
In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His help and ask
for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever
He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We bear witness that
there is none worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that
Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.
If
a few conditions (which are listed below) can be met, then the meat served in
predominantly Christian nations like the
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 5 Surah Maidah verse 5:
All the good and pure
things have today been made ‘halaal’ for you; the food of the people of
the Book (Jews and Christians) is ‘halaal’ for you, and your food for them.
It
is evident from the above aayah of the Holy Quran that the food of the People
of the Book (Jews and the Christians) is halaal for the believers. Some people say that the People of the Book
today commit ‘shirk’ and since the food of the mushriks is ‘haraam’, therefore the food slaughtered by the People
of the Book is also ‘haraam’. This
deduction is incorrect, as the Quran
itself condemns the Jews and Christians for invoking their Prophets as the son
of Allah and thus committing shirk. But
Allah has made the food of the People of the Book halaal as seen in the above
aayah of Surah Maidah in the Holy Quran.
If
the below five conditions are met, the food served by the People of the Book
will be deemed halaal for the believers.
1.
The animal itself should be halaal in Shariah. (Even if a muslim (Allah forbid) were to
slaughter swine, it will not make it
halaal!!).
2.
The one who slaughters the animal must either be a
Muslim, or a Jew or a Christian. If any
other person slaughters the animal, it will not be considered halaal.
3.
The animal has to be slaughtered and the blood
should be oozed out naturally. It does
not matter if the animal is slaughtered by hand or by a machine, from the front
of the neck or from the back. What is
important is that the veins must be cut to allow the blood to be oozed out of
the body.
4.
The animal should have been alive at the time of
slaughter. It is a routine in most
slaughterhouses in the West, that they electrocute or sting the animal with an
electric shock, and then slaughter the animal.
That is fine, as long as one is satisfied that the electric shock did
not kill the animal before its slaughter!
5.
The condition that Allah’s name has to be
pronounced is not a condition for the People of the Book, as long as nobody else’s’ name is
pronounced. If anybody else’s name
other than Allah is pronounced at the time of slaughter, it does not matter who
slaughters the animal, that meat is haraam.
Your Question: can
we eat anything from ouside in
One can eat any food from the vegetation kingdom and from
the sea anywhere in the world, including the
Provided the food does not violate any of the above listed
five conditions of slaughter, it would be considered lawful food for the
believers to consume.
Your Question: or we
should always ask if its halaal or haraam?
If one has any reason to doubt that the food being
presented to them in unlawful or might be haraam in Shariah, one who sincerely
believes in Allah and the Last Day must ask and confirm its permissibility in
Shariah before putting even a morsel of that food into their stomachs.
Your Question: can
we say allahhuakbar on chicken and beef meat from outside and eat it?
Dear and beloved brother, Islam has laid down specific and
clear conditions for slaughter which alone would make that flesh halaal for the
believers to consume. The simple saying
of ‘Allah-o-Akbar’ or ‘Bismillah’ by itself on any food which is ‘haraam’ or
not slaughtered according to Shariah does not make the food lawful in the Sight
of Shariah and of Allah Subhanah.
The flesh of all land and air creatures must, and I
repeat, must be slaughtered according to Shariah guidelines for it to be
considered halaal food for the believers.
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