I had slaughtered one sheep in the Newcastle Muslim abattoir during the Qur'baani season.

Answer

The respected senior Aalim had erred. The obligation of the Ulama is to guard and promote Allah's Deen, not to condone haraam acts and systems of the kuffaar. An Aalim is supposed to be a guide who guides Muslims towards Siraatul Mustaqeem, not away from it. It was therefore highly improper for the Aalim to have said that 'it is halaal'. An Aalim should not look at an issue in isolation of the Shariah's overall objectives — moral, spiritual and legal. The lackadaisical attitude of the Aalim is abhorrent in the extreme.

There are two classes of Haraam. (1) Hurmat li ainihi, and (2) Hurmat li ghairihi. Even if all four neck vessels are severed, the meat falls in the second category of Haraam. You will better understand this by the following illustration.

Nikah is halaal and commendable. Everyone knows this fact. But, if in a society there is the system of zina prior to Nikah, then the Nikah despite its permissibility will not be permissible. If zina is stipulated as a precondition to Nikah, then it will not be permissible to get married in such circumstances, that is, first commit zina with the woman, then perform Nikah.

It will not be valid to argue that the end product, Nikah, is halaal, hence the zina is also halaal. Only brainless zindeeqs argue in this fashion. Similarly, even if the end product in the haraam slaughtering process is assumed to be halaal since all four vessels are cut, then too it will not be permissible to consume such meat because this type of haraam process is not an occasional one forced by an urgent/emergency situation. The haraam process is an evil kuffaar system which has displaced the Islamic system., and Muslims, especially the carrion halaalizers, are regarding the haraam brutal kaafir system to be better and superior to the Shar'i system of Thabah.

And, besides all these Fiqhi (juridical) arguments, eating such meat which is the product of violation of Allah's ahkaam, erodes the nooraaniyat of Imaan. It creates zulmat (spiritual darkness) which extinguishes the capacity of cultivating Taqwa. Even pure, halaal tayyib food prepared by the hands of a zaalim or faasiq has a detrimental affect on our Baatin (spiritual heart).