The Conditions of Halal Slaughter

Many bodies accept heard the appellation "halal" meat and abounding Muslims like to allocution about halal and haram and whether or not meat from a accurate restaurant or supplier is halal to eat. When it comes bottomward to it, the catechism can alone be answered by fiqh (jurisprudence) and what the advisers account correct.

The afterward provides a actual bright addition to what absolutely constitutes halal annihilation according to the Shafi’i academy of fiqh. It is an abridged adaptation of a affiliate from The Reliance of the Traveller by Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri (as translated by Sheikh Nuh Ha Mim Keller).

The afterward altitude are compulsatory for halal slaughter:

1. It is not permissible to eat any beastly until it has been appropriately slaughtered, with the barring of fish.

2. It is actionable to eat meat collapsed by a Zoroastrian, addition who has larboard Islam or an idol worshipper.

3. It is permissible to annihilation with annihilation that has a acid edge: this does not accommodate a tooth, bone, barb or the like.

4. When slaughtering, the animal’s windpipe and gullet charge be cut. Acid of the carotid arteries is not compulsatory to validate the slaughter.

5. Should the boner carelessness to cut any allotment of either the windpipe or gullet and the beastly dies, it is haram to eat.

6. The boner charge cut swiftly.

The afterward are advised as recommended only:

1. To about-face the beastly appear the qibla.

2. To acuminate the knife.

3. To cut rapidly (meaning alike quicker than swiftly).

4. To acknowledgment Allah’s name (i.e. “Bismillah”).

5. To accelerate blessings on the Prophet (s.a.w).

6. To cut the ample claret arteries on either ancillary of the neck.