[Illirmpipse]

Aslaam Alaykum Brothers and Sisters,

Regarding this issue, I have not yet consumed stunned meat with the idea that it is wrong to harm an animal before you consume it. Recently I've heard some people say that the animal is not harmed and you can eat it, what are your views on this?

[Marlboro-oroblraM]

Aslaam Alaykum Brothers and Sisters,

Regarding this issue, I have not yet consumed stunned meat with the idea that it is wrong to harm an animal before you consume it. Recently I've heard some people say that the animal is not harmed and you can eat it, what are your views on this?

You are correct that the animal is harmed. An animal that is harmed before slaughter is not to be eaten. If in confusion brother the best advice I can provide you is to abstain from such meat. If you abstain from it you will receive reward from Allah Ta'ala.

If you can find unstunned meat that is slaughtered Islamically then please consume that.

[xFZ3k8Mw]

It will depend of the procedure of stunning before Zabeeha. Under normal stunning the animal is stunned into a paralyzed state and then made zabeeha. This, although makrooh will still not render the meat Haram, provided that rest of the shar'ii requirements were kept in mind.

In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful

Assalaamu `alaykum waRahmatullahi Wabarakatoh

If the animal is such that there is no need to stun it before slaughtering it, then to stun it for no reason will be considered as cruelty and such an act will be makrūh. Nevertheless, the animal will still be lawful for consumption on condition the animal is alive at the time of slaughtering. If the animal is wild and difficult to slaughter without stunning it, it will be permissible to stun it to the degree that it calms down and becomes easy to slaughter. Here too, the condition of it being alive at the time of slaughtering must be met.

Special care should be taken that the voltage of the stunner is not set too high as this leads to the death of the animal before slaughtering it. Also, the people inspecting the animals should be trained to identify a dead animal from the line so it may be removed from being slaughtered.



( و ) كره كل تعذيب بلا فائدة...قال العلامة ابن عابدين: ( قوله وكره إلخ ) هذا هو الأصل الجامع في إفادة معنى الكراهة عناية – رد المحتار 6:296 مصطفى البابي الحلبي



And Allah knows best

Wassalam

Ml. Ehzaz Ajmeri,
Student Darul Iftaa

Checked and Approved by:

Mufti Ebrahim Desai
http://www.askimam.org/fatwa/fatwa.p...b3f8450ebe6381 follow up with the angle that stunning is cruel and the meat is unlawful.
http://www.askimam.org/fatwa/fatwa.p...daf0f2271d778a