Can i eat the chicken burgers and beef burgers from Mcdonald or anyother shop.
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Answer:
Are burgers in
America Halaal
In the name of Allah, We praise
Him, seek His help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can
misguide, and whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We
bear witness that there is no one (no idol,
no person, no grave, no prophet, no imam,
no dai,
nobody!) worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that
Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.
If a few conditions (which are
listed below) can be met, then the meat served at McDonalds (or any other
restaurant) in the
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 5 Surah Maidah verse 5:All the good and
pure things have today been made ‘halaal’ for you;
the food of the people of the Book (Jews and Christians) is ‘halaal’ for you, and your food for them.
It is evident from the above aayah of the Holy Quran that the
food of the People of the Book (Jews and the Christians) is halaal
for the believers. Some people say that
the People of the Book today commit ‘shirk’ and since the food of the mushriks is ‘haraam’, therefore
the food slaughtered by the People of the Book is also ‘haraam’. This deduction is incorrect, as the Quran itself condemns the Jews and Christians for invoking
their Prophets as the son of Allah and thus committing shirk. But Allah has made the food of the People of
the Book halaal as seen in the above aayah of Surah Maidah in the Holy Quran.
If the below five conditions are
met, the food served by the People of the Book will be termed halaal for the believers.
The animal itself should be halaal in Shariah. (Even if they slaughter swine, it will not
make it halaal).
The one who slaughters the
animal must either be a Muslim, or a Jew or a Christian. If any other person slaughters the animal,
it will not be considered halaal.
The animal has to be slaughtered
and the blood should be oozed out naturally.
It does not matter if the animal is slaughtered by hand or by a machine,
from the front of the neck or from the back.
What is important is that the veins must be cut to allow the blood to be
oozed out of the body.
The animal should have been
alive at the time of slaughter. It is a
routine in most slaughterhouses in the West, that they
electrocute or sting the animal with an electric shock, and then slaughter the
animal. That is fine, as long as we are
satisfied that the electric shock did not kill the animal.
The condition that Allah’s name
has to be pronounced is not a condition for the People of the Book, as long as
nobody else’s’ name is pronounced. If
anybody else’s name other than Allah is pronounced at the time of slaughter, it
does not matter who slaughters the animal, the meat is haraam.
Whatever written of Truth and benefit
is only due to Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of
me. Allah Alone Knows Best and He is the
Only Source of Strength.
Your Brother in Islam,
Burhan
Wister