Question
Since i have been following your site, with Allah's help I have tried to leave commercially made foods and drinks. But when it comes to chickens and other foods, I cannot help myself. My father is a molana and says we cannot completely cut out everything. The chickens and all meat is slaughtered at home, but again, comes the question of whether the sick chickens are halaal. A lot of times, it has come to a point where I try to explain but I feel he is a molana and my father as well. I fear that I will also leave such foods for few days and go back to the way I was.
Answer
Should you revert to your old haraam style it will indicate lack of sincerity and Allah's anger for you, hence you have been deprived of Istiqaamat (steadfastness). Remember that when a person makes an effort to practise the Deen, then opposition and criticism are logical consequences. What you are confronted with is a pinprick trial. Regardless of your father being a Maulana, Islam requires you to be firm in abstaining from all these haraam and mushtabah foods, especially the chickens and meat products.
As far as the chickens are concerned, the commercially prepared non-meat foods are better, much better, than the carrion chickens. Even if these broiler/incubated/plastic chickens are 100% halaal slaughtered, then too abstain eating these diseased products. They cause serious diseases in the long term, even cancer.
- Source
- themajlis.co.za
- Published in
- The Majlis Vol 24 No 09
- PDF page
- 4
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