RE: Published in the Muslim Weekly this week:WHY ONLY THE PROPHETIC METHOD OF DHABH SHOULD BE PRACTICED?for publication
Majid Katme
-Putting it on your website
-Publishing it in your Muslim paper/journal
-Mentioning it in Friday Khutba
-Sending it to so called ?halal Muslim companies
-E mail it to all your Muslim contacts
Dr A Majid Katme
NB: Availabe for interview
USINESS COMPANIES SHOULD IMPLEMENT ONLY AND FULLY THE PROPHETIC METHOD OF DHABH(animal slaughter),without the use of any stunning?
WHY ALL MUSLIM CONSUMERS SHOULD MAKE SURE THAT THE MEAT/CHICKEN THEY EAT ARE 100% GENUINE HALAL MEAT COMING FROM THE PROPHETIC METHOD OF DHABH?
It is very unfortunate and sad to see that most "Muslim companies and businessess" who are involved in animal slaughter
for ?halal meat,are adopting the western and non Muslim methods of animal slaughter,by using all types of these new stunning torture techniques,and mechanical slaughter:
-Electrified water bath to chickens
-Electric shock to the head of the sheep
-And the shooting the the head of the innocent cow by a gun/bullet
All these painful and cruel techniques are done before the act of Dhabh/animal slaughter.
It is a sad fact too ,that the majority of the meat and chickens in "halal shops" which are eaten by the Muslim consumers
did come after the use of stunning and after DEVIATING from the fixed humane Halal method of DHABH as mentioned and illustrated and practiced by the final Prophet Muhammad(peace be upon him);
The Islamic and humane and health reasons against the use of any stunning are so many and can be shown separately in details,for any one interested .
But,we like in this important WARNING to raise the ALARM to every Muslim businessman who is doing business in halal meat to ADOPT FULLY AND ONLY THE PROPHETIC METHOD OF DHABH,WITHOUT ANY ADDING OR INTERFERENCE WITH THIS DIVINE ACT OF DHABH,AS IN THE USE OF DIFFERENT STUNNING TECHNIQUES .
WHY ALL DHABH/animal slaughter,should be done EXACTLY,as done by our beloved Prophet Muhammad(peace be upon him),and without any change or adding:
THE MAIN REASONS ARE:
- Our beloved Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) is our only TEACHER on everything in life including DHABH (Animal - "Slaughter") and he explained to us in a clear Authentic Hadith how to do it humanely.
- He is also our MODEL to copy and follow in all aspects of life; he showed us clearly in his merciful hands how to do DHABH.
- Any new method of animal slaughter by adding or changing the Prophetic method of Dhabh,is wrong and unislamic and is not halal and is "BID'A" too.
- There is no place for any one at any time to make his own new interpretation and definition of Halal slaughtering
by changing or adding any.
- Prophetic method of Dhabh is practical realistic and can be done anywhere and is simple easy and economic and safe.
- The Prophet Muhammad has done TASMIAH/TAZKIAH/NAME OF ALLAH on every live conscious hearing animal..and noton animal in a coma or dead following stunning as Muslims do today?
- Also new scientific medical studies by many Muslim doctors and scientists have prooved that:
Tasmiah/Name of ALLAH (Bismillah,ALLAH AKBAR) have been found to act as SEDATIVE on both animal and man,and did PURIFY the meat from bacteria and blood. all these are lost when stunning was used.
- Every practicing Muslim believer is obliged to OBEY fully the Prophet Muhammad (SAW) in many things he did including his method of DHABH,by doing that one is following the SUNNAH of the Prophet Muhammad(pbuh)
By following his SUNNAH in DHABH ,one is having rewards too! many Muslims do not know that.
- He was described as the MERCY to man and animals in the Qur'an and Hadith; his method must be the only HUMANE ONE.
- He warned us clearly in a Hadith that he will FIGHT all those who do not "slaughter" the animal like him??? Any "Muslim" doing the animal "slaughter" differently from him, as by the use of stunning, is wrong and careless and have little Islamic and medical knowledge and has a weak IMAN or is "slave to money first" and is a defeatist, And is a big looser ,besides of been a big cheat to his own Muslim community.... Who trusted his business label: HALAL meat?
- The whole problem which has caused the whole mess and confusion in the Muslim and western world regarding halal Dhabh/halal meat is the GREED of many Muslim business companies who lack Prophetic and medical knowledge and are too obscessed with extra money or who like to please "their master" the non Muslims
- by DEVIATING from the merciful humane method of Dhabh,the teacher to all!
* It is BLASPHEMOUS when any Muslim believe that his new different method of Dhabh with the use of stunning, is more merciful/humane to the animal than the method shown and practiced by our beloved Prophet Muhammad (SAW)?
- When the innocent Muslims eat this Haram or Questionable meat as result of stunning? their DU'AS will not be accepted and none will enter Jannah/Heaven ,especiallly when the meat is coming from dead animal before doing the cut or contain blood due to less bleeding out after stunning, and following the rupture of small blood vessels inside the meat, called scientifically: "Salt and Pepper Haemorrhage".
- Any meat resulting from stunning has got 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 question marks , some haram outcomes,apart from inflicting pain and cruelty on the innocent animal?
- It is a golden rule in Islam, by all Mazahibs, Muftis and Ulamas to avoid what is DOUBTFUL or Controversial to what is not. Surely stunning/mechanical slaughter will give us many doubts and worry!
Prophet Muhammad said:" Avoid what is doubtful to what is not doubtful"
Only the Prophetic method of Dhabh has not got a single question mark? And is above all sciences and their misinterpretations!
- To understand well the Prophetic DHABH, a little scientific medical knowledge on the anatomy of the neck the blood circulation and the brain, and on the normal safe physiological processes which do occur after the cut, will prove that is surely 100% Humane, 100% HALAL and "Painless" and for best quality meat.
- It is a well organised process of natural physiological "painless" death. No one should interfere with this natural programmed method of death at any stage of the death of the animal,by any stunning. IT IS A PERFECT ORGANISED PAINLESS WAY OF DEATH.
- Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) came as the final prophet to teach the whole world, including Britain and EU and DEFRA and FSA, on the best behaviour in all aspects of life including animal "slaughter". We should be "exporting" his HUMANE Halal Prophetic method to all non-Muslims and to DEFRA/FSA and the EU and not to be "importing" their "lost wrong ways of life" in a lot of things including their cruel animal "slaughter".
- The Prophetic method of Dhabh is the SAME ,done by all the Prophets (AS) before: Ibrahim (AS), Moses (Musa (AS)) and Jesus (Isa (AS)). So the Prophetic method of Dhabh is very holy and very sacred and is fixed and not for any change or amendment or adding. However all the new technology,sciences and regulations can be adopted to implement well the Prophetic method of Dhabh.
- We should propagate only "THE PROPHETIC METHOD" as many "Muslim halal Companies" do hide/ go undercover, under the word Islamic or Halal, after doing many types of stunning and mechanical slaughter.
But saying Prophetic Dhabh,means no any stunning was used.
- Prophetic DHABH includes all the Prophetic animal-welfare and care to the animal before doing DHABH, which are mentioned in many AHADITH:
- Giving water & food to the animal
- No sharpening of the blade in front of the animal
- Gentle handling of each animal
- Saying TAZKIAH/Tasmiyah on each animal...
all these are mentioned by the Prophet at time of Dhabh.
- Prophetic means also: TAYYIB meat, as mentioned in the Qur'an, which is unfortunately almost non-existent today in the halal meat eaten by Muslims? The Prophet Muhammad was a shepherd and the founder of ORGANIC FARMING.
- Spreading the word "PROPHETIC DHABH", will also open a great door for Da'wah.... To INTRODUCE our beloved Prophet Muhammad (SAW), here in the UK/EU, as the prophet is still unknown and misunderstood by the almost all the non-Muslims in the west.... Talk about his noble characters and behaviour and beliefs with the animals... and on other aspects of life.
- When you mention the Prophet Muhammad (SAW) in any-thing or situation and in propagating prophetic Dhabh, every Muslim is supposed to say: SALLALAHU ALAYHI WASALLAM (Peace be Upon Him), here you got a new source of rewards for you, with more awareness and communication with the Prophet (SAW) who will answer your Salam!
- NO DOUBT, THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD (PBUH) WILL LOVE YOU MORE WHEN YOU PRACTICE HIS HUMANE METHOD OF PROPHETIC DHABH, It is better to AVOID these MISLEADING TERMS used by Muslim Companies on halal meat like:
- Islamic method of slaughter
- Slaughtered according to Sharia
- Halal Meat (if Dhabh not done as the Prophet did before)
IT SHOULD BE SPELLED OUT CLEARLY IN ALL HALAL BUSINESS: Dhabh - Done According the Prophetic method of Dhabh OR different? This is the only clear safe honest way of labelling meat which will NOT confuse the Muslim customers or make them suspicious or worried! Besides Prophetic Dhabh is more comprehensive and more attractive to every Muslim in the world! We had enough "covering" and "cheating" and dishonest labelling by "muslim" halal companies?
IT IS THE ISLAMIC DUTY OF EVERY MUSLIM MAN AND WOMAN AND PARENT TO MAKE SURE (100%) THAT THE MEAT/CHICKEN THEY ARE EATING IS 100% HALAL AND COMING FROM THE PROPHETIC METHOD OF DHABH
The word halal is false label today and is unproven and questionnable in most Halal meat and poultry on the market! ...no one should believe it,till it is proven otherwise.
Many Muslims have forgotten this crucial point:
To eat genuine halal,the method of DHABH/slaughter should be 100% halal..and is there no better in the world any humane method of DHABH/animal slaughter than the prescribed and practiced PROPHETIC ONE!
WE ALL SHOULD BE PROUD IN PROPAGATING THIS ONLY HUMANE HALAL PROPHETIC METHOD OF DHABH!
ALLAH HAS SAID IN THE FINAL HOLY BOOK AL QUR'AN:
"SURELY THERE IS FOR YOU IN THE MESSENGER OF ALLAH:
AN EXCELLENT MODEL FOR WHOEVER SEEKS THE PLEASURE OF ALLAH AND THE LAST DAY AND REMEMBERS HIM OFTEN"
(verse 21/surah 33)
- (Watch out for the PSEUDOSCIENTISTS who justify things, due to some ignorance or because of lack of trust in the Prophetic method of Dhabh, or because they want to justify their own businesses!)
- (Our Muftis and Ulamas , by and large, are not aware of the new scientific knowledge on the science of stunning and its effects on the animal body,heart,brain,sensation ,death etc ..and not aware too of its Haraam harmful effects on the animal/meat... and the consumers? with respect to all of them).
No doubt, the Muslims in the world have failed to do many scientific researches and studies on the GREAT HUMANE HALAL METHOD OF PROPHETIC DHABH, while some scientists Jews have done many!
Please see my scientific medical research on the superior HALAL humane healthy method of DHABH of the Prophet Muhammad(pbuh) and the many harams and problems resulting from stunning: http://www.azhar.jp/info/halal-eng/halal5.html (published on AL AZHAR website)
Insha'ALLAH, the coming Workshop/Conference in Kuwait at the end of next month/March will address this issue.
Dr A Majid Katme(MBBCh,DPM)
The Long Campaigner for the only Prophetic method of Dhabh(animal slaughter)
00 44 7944 240 622
Address: 31 North Circular Road Palmers Green London N13 5EG UK