Question
Some Ulama say that we should not doubt when eating meat and chickens at Muslim homes. For the permissibility of consuming the food, it is sufficient that the host be a Muslim. What is your view?
Answer
In former days, i.e. perhaps 2 or 3 centuries ago it may have been possible to accept the word of a Muslim regarding halaal meat, but no longer today. Muslim butcheries, almost without exception, all deal in haraam meat and haraam chickens. We have discovered too many malpractices in the meat an poultry industry. This is a carrion industry which has been halaalized by vile, mercenary organizations whose sole concern is money. They sell their Imaan for haraam money, and for achieving their shaitaani objective they destroy the Imaan of the Muslim masses with the halaalized carrion.
Since it has become the norm for Muslim butcheries to deal in haraam meat, and since they have become more brazen in this carrion industry as a direct consequence of the evil halaal certificate industry, it is not permissible in this day to buy meat from a Muslim butchery if you do not know the owner and if you, yourself cannot vouch for his Deeni integrity. There was a time when the Shar'i principle of Ibaahah (Permissibility) applied as the first option. No longer in this era.. Hadhrat Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi (rahmatullah alayh) said that today, Hurmat (Prohibition) is the order.
We are aware of persons with long beards and long kurtahs, etc. selling haraam carrion products, and passing it off for 'halaal'. Molvis and sheikhs are involved on a massive scale in this haraam carrion fraud. Therefore you have to make enquiries and be positively sure that the butcher-owner is a truly uprighteous person. In this era garments and outward appearances are deceptive.
Don't be deceived by external appearances. A great revolution for the worse has overtaken the Ummah. Never be deceived by the burqah, beard, turban and the kurtah. While burqah is Waajib, the actual seat of Purdah is the heart, and this is lacking in almost 99%% of the females of today. The beard is Waajib. But, most people nowadays do not honour their own beards. You will find today many men with saintly attire and appearance, in the first saff of the Musjid, five times a day, dealing on a massive scale in stolen goods. They digest container loads of stolen goods.
Brother, all halaal-certifying bodies regardless of who they are and where they are, they are carrion certifiers. Never consume a product on the strength of a 'halaal' certificate. It is humanly impossible to correctly supervise thousand of non-Muslim business outlets spread all over the country. Our experience have established that all the products, i.e. meat products, certified by halaal-certifiers are haraam. It is not permissible to buy meat from a non-Muslim regardless of whose confounded halaal certificate he possesses.
- Source
- themajlis.co.za
- Published in
- The Majlis Vol 20 No 09
- PDF page
- 7
Appears under EATING AT MUSLIM HOMES (approximate).