Please comment on SANHA's claim that the late Mufti Ebrahim Sanjali (rahmatullah alayh) had legalized Rainbow chickens.

Answer

During the early 1970's an inspection of the Rainbow plant at Hammarsdale was undertaken. Among those who had participated were Maulana Yusuf Binnuri of Pakistan, Maulana A.H.Omarjee, Maulana Ansaari, Mufti Ebrahim Sanjalwi, Maulana Ebrahim Mia, Mufti Ahmed Mia, A.S. Desai (me) and others. Nolakhi and the rest of SANHA carrion halaalizers were either toddlers or not yet born. Hence, SANHA's

statements regarding this inspection are baseless conjecturing and false.

The Transvaal Ulama had emphatically branded Rainbow Haraam. Mufti Sanjalwi took one already-killed chicken and paraded with it the length of the plant, showing it to all participants. The neck veins were improperly cut. This was the general way in which the necks were cut.

It is a blatant and an obscene lie to claim that Mufti Sanjalwi had said that the chickens were halaal. A.S. Desai was present and can say under oath that Mufti Sanjalwi had rejected Rainbow.