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Can women slaughter animals?
To supplement Kilise's answer.
ان امراة، ذبحت شاة بحجر، فسيل النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم عن ذلك، فامر باكلها
A lady slaughtered a sheep with a stone and then the Prophet (ﷺ) was
asked about it and he ...
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Can women slaughter animals?
If there is no hadith (or verse) that prohibits women to slaughter, then the general rule would be that a woman may slaughter animals. As the general rule in fiqh is that everything that is not proven ...
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Looking for references for meat to be valid only if a muslim or ahlu kitab slaughters it
The conditions for halal slaughtering
Basically food is made of some ingredients among them you may find meat or flesh so the general ruling allowing to eat the food of the people of the book in (5:5) ...
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Is meat slaughtered by non-muslim halal?
The meat slaughtered by non-Muslims who are not Jews and Christians is haram; for example polytheists, idolaters, atheists and apostates etc. because it is not slaughtered in Allah's name:
حرمت عليكم ...
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Is eating properly slaughtered meat in a Christian country halal?
The major requirements of halal slaughter are:
It must be done by Zabiha 5:3
It must be done by a believing Muslim, Jew or Christian 5:5
Allah's name must be pronounced at the slaughter 6:121
The ...
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Why slaughtering of animals is not considered as cruel as opposed to what vegetarians think?
Then "killing" plants also does not seem right to me as they're living things too like us (keeping aside if they feel pain or not). We wouldn't have survived till now if we were not to eat them ...
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Which scholars argue that mentioning Gods name while slaughtering is not obligatory?
There are two cases:
One forgets to mention Allah's name.
One intentionally does not mention Allah's name.
There are three views:
The slaughter will valid in the first case (forgotten) but ...
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Does Allah give the human population exclusive right, to kill and eat any other baser animal life forms?
I don't know what "exclusive right" in the question precisely means, but Allah created other hunting, meat-eating animals besides humans.
So I think it's safe to say humans don't have exclusive ...
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Which meat is halal and which is not in Islam?
As a brief answer, haram meat creatures are divided into several categories (in general):
All of the sea creatures which do not have scales.
Among land creatures, pigs, dogs, predatory creatures ...
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Which scholars argue that mentioning Gods name while slaughtering is not obligatory?
There are two cases:
One forgets to mention Allah's name.
One intentionally does not mention Allah's name.
There are three views:
The slaughter will valid in the first case (forgotten) but ...
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stunning animals before slaughter - different opinions
You already quoted 5:1 but if you go further you can read:
... Lawful for you are the animals of grazing livestock except for that which is recited to you [in this Qur'an] - ...
So we are told ...
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Is chicken Slaughtered by only one man halal?
The slaughterer had to apply body weight on the chicken to hold it steady
If he pulled back the wings and put pressure on them to hold it down (as is customarily done) then there is no issue (the ...
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Is it permissible to soak slaughtered chicken in hot water to ease plucking?
From a Kosher point of view, scalding causes the blood to clot and it stops exsanguination.
In other words, if you want make sure your chickens contain blood, scald them.
The machinery is not ...
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Where to cut the throat for halal slaughter?
According to the Department Of Halal Certification:
The windpipe (throat), food-tract (oesophagus) and the two jugular veins must be cut.
Slaughtering must be made in the neck from the front (...
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Contradiction in Quran concerning slaughter
There can be at-least three explanations to this alleged contradiction:
Some People of the Scripture do pronounce Allah's name at the time of slaughter. For example in kosher slaughter it is ...
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Slaughtering while blood fall into a hole
Blood of a slaughtered animal is unclean (6:145). It can be disposed of in any way. People will sometimes bury it or wash it into sewage drains. It can be left as such, the issue is not 'ghosts' ...
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Slaughter houses within Haram boundaries
The slaughter house you have posted first is certainly within the boundary as you may see from your own map the boundary actually is much further west (it is on the highway to Djeddah - the blue mark-)...
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How big a knife is required for eid qurban sacrifice?
There are no obligatory requirements regarding the knife or tool which is used for slaughtering. Anything which is able to cut the vessels (arteries, food-pipe and windpipe) and sheds blood is ...
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How big a knife is required for eid qurban sacrifice?
I asked this question to the imam of my mosque and he said that there are no specifications about the size of the knife. Although it is recommended the knife should be sharp enough so that the animal ...
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Is meat slaughtered by non-muslim halal?
Christian and Jews are also Non-Muslim, but see the Quranic verse
Quran Verse 5:5
This day [all] good foods have been made lawful, and the food of those
who were given the Scripture is lawful ...
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Looking for references for meat to be valid only if a muslim or ahlu kitab slaughters it
This had to do with the relevant sharia texts from Quran and Hadith, and how to apply rules to them.
So we have the following two ayat:
حُرِّمَتْ عَلَيْكُمُ الْمَيْتَةُ وَالدَّمُ وَلَحْمُ الْخِنزِيرِ ...
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Which meat is halal and which is not in Islam?
[ The following is according to Hanafi school of thought of the Sunnis ]
Meat is halal when it is of a permitted animal and is killed by Dhabiha, which is the Islamic ritual slaughter. The (brief) ...
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Slaughtering an Animal
It does not matter which religion is the performer as long as the conditions are fulfilled which is the animal must be slaughtered by the sharpness of the knife or the instrument not by pressure and ...
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