Question
A certain organisation is providing a qurbani service. Their policy is that NO one doing their qurbani through them is allowed to specifically choose their animal from the pen. On the day of slaughter the animals will be lined up for slaughter in no specific order. Generally they slaughter approximately 120 animals (all goats). So a list is made based on a first come first serve basis. For example, Ahmed's name appears as Number 30. Therefore Ahmed's animal will be the 30th slaughtered animal. After slaughter the heads and trotters and internal organs are removed, the animal is skinned and a tag with the number of that animal is placed on the carcass only. When collection happens then the heads, trotters and internal organs are collected in no specific order, e.g. Ahmed can collect the head for goat number 55 and the trotters for goat number 72 and the internal organs for goat number 100. Is this be ok? Is Ahmed not entitled to collect his goat's (number 30's) head, trotters and internal organs? Is this system valid according to the Shariah?
Answer
The whole system from beginning to end is baatil and haraam. Firstly the sale of the animals in this manner is faasid. It is Waajib to cancel a faasid sale. It is haraam to derive use and benefit from the product of a faasid t i v e f o r m a k i n g Qur'baani.
If the purveyors of this Qur'baani project refuse to follow the Shariah, it will be haraam to deal with them. They should understand that they are making a profit of between R300 and R500 on each goat. If they are not concerned with thawaab, then at least they should have sufficient brains to safeguard the tens of thousands of rands of profit they will be making in the short 3 day Qur'baani period.
- Source
- themajlis.co.za
- Published in
- The Majlis Vol 25 No 01
- PDF page
- 8
Appears under INTERFAITH KUFR (approximate).