Modern ways of slaughtering: A research study in the context of Islamic Shariah

عصر حاضر میں ذبح کی جدید صورتیں : شرعی وتحقیقی جائزہ

Abstract

Islamic Sharia has quite different as compared to other religions in abide by rules about slaughtering of animals. The butchering of animals is not an ordinary work which can be carried out by anyone according to his own desire without the holy guidance. It is a mere religious matter that has specific conditions which should be adopted. As the Holy Quran and Hadith narrate some conditions for slaughter as well as the instruments of slaughtering. Since the technology has been so developed in present era, that is called mechanical era, some new ways of slaughtering have been introduced as well. We need to know whether, these methods are fulfilling the need of Islamic law or not. The laying article analyzes the exclusive definition of slaughtering, its modern methods and its impact upon the animals that did it meet the needs of basic Islamic criteria of slaughtering. The findings will clearly show the allowed or prohibited ways of butchering of the aforementioned modern day ways of practices.