Mirza Yawar Baig – Zabiha Halal
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين
والصلاة والسلام على شرف الأنبياء والمرسلين محمد رسول
الله صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وآله وسلم
تسليماً كثيراً كثيراً محمد My brothers and sisters,
today I'm going to talk to you about
a very, very critical topic.
I'm going to ask you a lot of
questions.
So, please ask me, tell me, do you
think it is important for your Dua to
be accepted or not?
I'm not asking doubt, but it's a serious
question.
Do you want your Dua to be accepted
or not?
Yes or no?
Sure?
Do you want your Ibadat, your Salah and
so on to be accepted or not?
Yes or no?
Yes.
Then tell me, what is the single most
important thing that you should do for your
Dua to be accepted and your Salah to
be accepted?
What is the number one thing?
Prayer?
No, and you're praying already.
To be accepted.
For Allah to accept it.
Halal income and halal food.
Right?
Halal income and halal food.
Please understand, there was a story in Islamic
history where Hajjaj bin Yusuf sent some food
to some of the Ulama of the Haram.
And so this food came from the governor
of Makkah and so on.
After they ate the food, then Hajjaj said
to them, now you can make as much
Dua against me as you want, I don't
care.
Because what I sent you was Haram.
Now you can talk about whether unknowingly if
they had Haram, was it, did it affect
them or didn't affect them and so on.
Those are all matters of discussion, but the
important thing is that here is Hajjaj saying
that I sent you this food with the
intention that your Dua is rejected.
Now the reason I'm saying this to you
is very simple because we have in this
country, and this is only in this country,
there are people from different countries here, let
me answer.
Indonesia, when you go and buy chicken, do
you ask for Zabiha, Halal?
No.
Pakistan?
Suda?
No.
Pakistan, Pakistan, Pakistan?
Why?
Why don't you ask for Zabiha, Halal?
Because nobody is running a Halal scam in
those countries.
It is Halal or Haram.
And Halal means Zabiha.
There is no such thing as Zabiha, Halal.
You get the point I'm making?
There is no such thing as Zabiha, Halal
because what makes the thing Halal?
Zabiha.
For something to be Halal, two conditions are
required.
Number one, Fi Nafsihi, by itself the animal
or the bird should be Halal.
You can do Zabiha to a dog, it
does not become Halal.
And if you think I'm exaggerating, I'm not.
You go to Southeast Asia, people eat dogs.
You will go to a butcher shop, you
will find dog carcasses.
I'm not exaggerating, I'm not joking, I'm not
exaggerating.
I'm telling you the reality of life.
Travel in the world and you will see.
So the thing itself should be something which
Allah has permitted.
So cattle, sheep, birds, animals, everything which is
not a predator.
Everything which is not a predator, an eagle,
a crow is not Halal, but a chicken
is Halal, turkey is Halal, and so on.
So these are permissible animals and birds to
eat.
Second condition is, it should be slaughtered in
the way which we know as Zabiha.
So people say Zabiha is good because all
the blood gets drained out and so on
and so on.
No, Zabiha is Halal for the same reason
that we fast in Ramadan from can't see
to can't see.
From dawn to dusk.
What is the sanctity of that timing?
What is the reason?
Is it because of maximum activity, maximum biological
activity?
Allah said so.
That is what Allah told us.
Take the ayat concerning the prohibition of interest
-based dealings.
What did Allah give us the reason?
Did Allah give a reason to say this
is bad for the economy and you should
do this?
No.
What is the reason Allah gave us?
Why is it Halal?
Because Allah said, because I said so.
Why is it Halal?
Because I said so.
I said so is reason, is Dalil, is
the biggest cause for a Muslim to believe
that something is right or wrong.
Because Allah said so, you don't need anything
else.
You don't need a scientific reason, you don't
need an economic reason, you don't need a...
No.
Because Allah said so.
So why is it that Zabiha, which means
to cut the throat, esophagus, windpipe and at
least two of the arteries.
The carotid arteries, jugular vein, all which should
be cut.
Because I can argue with you and I
can say if the draining of the blood
is what is required, then I can simply
stab the animal in the heart, the blood
will be drained.
I can rip open the animal from ear
to ear, blood will be drained.
There are many ways of draining the blood.
Will it be Halal?
No.
It has to be cut in this way.
Now, also the Qawasat must say Bismillah or
BismillahirRahmanirRahim.
But there is a difference of opinion.
With some of the Ulema, they said Bismillah
is musta'ab, good to do.
If you don't do, also it does not
make it Haram.
Leave that aside.
But if you want an absolutely total perfect
opinion, good in all counts, then it is
something which is slaughtered by a Muslim saying
BismillahirRahmanirRahim, but cutting the whole throat, which means
the carotids, jugular and the windpipe etc.
This opinion, there is no disagreement by any
of the Imams.
Even the people who said that Bismillah is
not necessary, if you tell them what if
I say Bismillah, they will say absolutely not.
Please, go ahead.
Nobody will say, don't say Bismillah.
Right?
Now, why am I saying all this?
I am saying all this because, I will
send you the article, so read it.
There is an article called the Human Cost
of Chickens.
Now, what happens in a chicken processing factory?
How many people here have been inside a
chicken processing plant and seen it?
Anybody here?
You have seen it?
Okay.
Now, I have seen it and I am
sure my brother Luqman will confirm what I
am saying, whether it is true or not.
I will tell you what I saw.
The chickens come at one end of the
assembly line.
They are put upside down into furrows.
Something like a furrow.
So, the furrow is supposed to keep the
chicken from flapping around and so on.
The neck and head extend out.
This goes down on a conveyor.
It passes through a bath of water.
There is a tub of water.
The chicken's head and neck is dipped in
the water.
It is at a level where it cannot
escape.
It goes into the water.
The water is electrified.
There is electric power in that.
They put wires there.
The water is electrified.
This is supposed to stun the chicken.
So, they say the chicken does not die.
Okay.
So, first of all, whether to stun or
not, that itself is a different story.
But, chicken does not die.
My question is, how do you know that
every chicken does not die?
That no chicken dies?
Because, nobody does a cardiac analysis of the
chicken before they put it through there.
So, it is entirely possible that the electric
shock of one chicken will kill it.
So, now you have got a dead chicken.
Which has died.
Gone on the head outside.
Then it goes to the place where the
throat is supposed to be cut.
Now, that is a knife.
It is either a circular blade or it
is a straight blade.
And the rate at which it is cutting,
they process 45 words per minute.
Which means one and a half seconds per
word.
Now, I want you to say BismillahirRahmanirRahim.
Say it fast.
As fast as you can.
That's it.
That's it.
One second.
Gone.
Already gone.
You are supposed to say it 45 times
per minute.
Is it possible?
It's not possible.
So, what do they do?
They put a tape.
There is a tape which is playing BismillahirRahmanirRahim.
Is this halal?
So, why don't we, instead of coming here
to this masjid and praying, Allah bless our
Sheikh for this beautiful qirat.
Instead of this, why don't we simply put
on a tape at home.
Listen to some Qur'an and say, My
Salatul Isha, Alhamdulillah.
With the jalaal.
Or maybe tune on to the Saudi channel
or something.
Some video.
Watch the video.
Alhamdulillah.
I prayed.
I prayed.
MashaAllah.
I prayed Salatul Isha in the Arab.
What more do you want?
I prayed Salatul Isha in the Arab.
My brothers and sisters, Fear Allah.
Fear Allah.
This deen is not a joke.
What is your deen worth to you?
If you had to pay, how much would
you pay?
Tell me.
I don't know.
One chicken?
Everything?
So, one chicken.
Whole chicken.
Not only one leg.
That's what you're doing.
You're selling your deen for one chicken leg.
How many people here eat one chicken at
a sitting?
Have you eaten one full chicken?
Anybody?
So, your deen, I'm not saying you.
I don't mean you personally.
I'm saying the people who are eating without
verifying whether it is zabi or not, are
selling their deen for that piece of chicken
which you just ate.
So, your deen to you is worth less
than one leg of a chicken.
So, it goes through the electric bar.
Then it goes through this.
Chak, chak, chak, chak, chak, chak, chak, chak.
Now, where they have men standing and slaughtering,
actually, in some cases, they have a man
standing there, long line of men.
They slaughter every alternate chicken, which brings down
the production capacity of the plant quite a
lot, but they do it.
They slaughter it.
Now, those men, they wear adult diapers.
They're standing there for eight hours.
They're wearing adult diapers.
If they have to urinate, they urinate standing
there.
If they have to defecate, they do that.
So, the man is in the diapers while
he is slaughtering the chickens, whether his bismillah
is worth, Allah only knows.
That's why they said, the human cause of
chickens.
The belt is moving.
The conveyor is moving.
They do not shut down a machine because
you want to go to the toilet.
They do not shut down the machine because
you say, no, no, no, I can't say
bismillah fast enough.
You want a job, just do it.
Right?
I told you, I'll send you.
So, these things, they got 14,000 chickens
per day, which means in terms of the
total output for the day.
So, now, and I told you, I'll send
you the articles.
I won't sort of read the whole thing
for you.
The reason I'm saying all this is because
in this country, you have got options.
The option is that very sad to say,
a halal stamp means nothing because there are
people who are putting halal stamps on factory
machine slaughtered chickens.
When the machine slaughter is happening, one is
there is some tape playing.
So, that is one problem.
The other problem is when the knife wills,
sometimes the chicken will flap.
So, the knife, instead of cutting the neck,
will cut off the whole neck.
So, the head falls off.
So, a chicken with the head chopped off
is halal.
If the neck falls off, completely the head
is off.
That's how the Sikhs do that.
They call it shatka.
They cut off the head, beheading.
It's not halal.
Sometimes, it measures the neck.
It will cut through the body.
The problem is the whole thing is moving
so fast that there is no way of
checking every single chicken.
Was it alive at the time of slaughter?
Did the neck get cut properly?
Nobody on earth can verify that.
If they take you and say, you stand
here and verify, you cannot verify.
It's not doable.
It's not meant for that.
We have been producing machines which move faster
and faster and faster for a very simple
reason.
That is that if you have a machine
which processes, say, as I told you, 4
,000 or 20,000 per day, another machine
produces 60,000 per day, that means your
profit margin is going up.
So, in this country, you have two options.
One option is there are HMS, for example,
Halal Multin Service from New York.
They verify the proper halal system of hand
slaughter.
And they give a stamp which is the
HMS stamp.
They do it free of cost.
They don't charge anybody anything.
They don't charge you.
They don't charge the slaughterhouse.
They don't charge the shop.
So, buy only the thing which has a
HMS stamp or go to a place, slaughter
the chicken yourself or go to a place
which sells you hand-slaughtered chickens.
We have them right here in West Springfield.
People who are hand-slaughtering and providing.
We have Sabah Poultry in Connecticut which does
hand-slaughter.
We have many options.
If any hotel or restaurant sells the chicken
here or we have halal food, please, it
doesn't mean anything because you must go and
ask, is it Zabiha, is it hand-slaughtered,
is it Zabiha?
If they say, if the owner is a
Muslim and if the owner says, yes, it
is Zabiha, you don't have to argue, you
don't have to ask him to show you
this stamp or that stamp.
You can take his word for it because
if he is lying to you, then he
will stand before Allah on the Day of
Judgment and he will answer to Allah.
So, it's not your problem.
But without asking, if it just has a
halal stamp, for example, restaurant, for example, Costco,
many places have chicken, so on and so
forth, which has a halal stamp, please do
not buy that is machine-slaughtered, because it
is halal.
Sometimes people tell me, no, Sheikh, but you
know that is cheaper.
If you want the cheapest meat, go eat
pork because that is the cheapest meat in
this country.
And if people say, say Bismillah and eat,
say Bismillah and eat pork also, what is
the problem?
You are eating some maitha anyway.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala prohibited the dead.
See the ayat of Surah Al-Baqarah, Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala says that maitha is
maitha wa dham and so on and so
forth, blood and the dead.
So, dead is dead.
Then this haram, a dead body, is as
haram, equal haram, twofold.
There is nothing bigger and higher and lower
than that.
Please don't make the deen into a joke.
The deen is not a joke.
The deen is serious.
That's why I began with, do you want
your dua to be accepted?
The reason our duas are not accepted today,
globally, is because of this.
This chicken business is a very, very, very
major reason for it.
Please don't do this.
Absolutely check.
If it is not hand-slaughtered zabiha, don't
eat it.
Don't feed others.
Right?
Many of you know, I ask happily.
Even if I'm eating, I normally would not
ask if I'm eating in somebody's house.
But I know, unfortunately, there are people, Muslims
here, who buy and eat raw zabiha in
their houses.
So, I have to ask you, even if
I come to your house, is this zabiha?
I will ask.
If you get away with it, that's no
problem.
Don't call me.
Do not invite me.
If it is not zabiha, don't touch it.
Consider it to be worse than poison, because
poison will kill you.
Eating haram will put you in jahannam.
Right?
I want to end with one of my
most beautiful stories from the seerah.
Abu Bakr as-Siddiq radiyal an'u.
See the name, see the issues.
Abu Bakr as-Siddiq radiyal an'u came
home once and he asked his servant, is
there anything to eat?
He gave him a bowl of milk and
Abu Bakr as-Siddiq radiyal an'u drank
the milk.
Then the servant said to him, every time
I give you something, you ask me where
did you get it from.
Today you did not ask me.
Abu Bakr as-Siddiq radiyal an'u said
to him, he said, Ya Rajul, when you
know I'm so careful, what was this thing?
He said, before I became Muslim, I was
a soothsayer.
He was a jyotishi or something, used to
tell people fortune and stuff, which is haram
in Islam.
He said, I used to do that.
I did this work for some people who
live outside of Madinah.
They did not pay me.
After that I became Muslim.
Today I was passing by there, so they
gave me this bowl of milk as payment
for that work, which he did prior to
becoming a Muslim.
He said, that bowl was there, I gave
it to you.
Now see, Abu Bakr as-Siddiq radiyal an
'u put his finger into his throat, and
he started vomiting.
He vomited and vomited and vomited until he
brought out blood.
So the people grabbed him and said, He
will kill yourself.
What is this thing?
Why are you doing it?
He says, I'm doing it because I never
heard from my Habib, who is the Habib
of Abu Bakr as-Siddiq?
Muhammad ﷺ.
He said, I heard from my Habib that
if one morsel, one piece, goes into the
mouth and is ingested, it is digested, the
fire of Jahannam is wajib on that body.
Now see the fiqh usool in this.
First of all, that milk belonged to whom?
Abu Bakr as-Siddiq or the man?
The man, right?
So that is his Muslim brother, who gave
him a gift.
You know and I know, if you are
fasting, somebody gives you something, without knowing you
eat it, you are fasting, it's fine, right?
If I come to your house, you give
me some food, I didn't check, I didn't
ask, is it halal or not?
You gave me, I ate.
Your Muslim brother gave me some food, it
is a gift from you, I ate it.
For me it is halal, no problem.
Right?
Milk by itself, is it halal or haram?
Halal.
So why is Abu Bakr as-Siddiq, bring
it up.
So he knows the deen better, or you
and I know the deen better?
He has more knowledge of fiqh, or we
have more knowledge of fiqh?
People give fatwa, no it's ok.
What do you mean ok?
This deen belongs to you or your grandfather,
what do you mean ok?
We have the hadith of, none other than,
the grandson of Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, Hassan
bin Ali radiyallahu anhuwa.
What did he say?
He said, I heard from my grandfather.
Directly.
He said, I heard from my grandfather.
He said, leave the doubtful, for that in
which there is no doubt.
Leave the doubtful for which?
For that in which there is no doubt.
So please, I am saying this to you,
in the house of Allah, and Allah Subh
'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la is my witness
today, and Allah will be my witness on
the Day of Judgement, that I convey the
message to you clearly.
InshaAllah.
Yes?
If the thing is not zabiha, do not
eat it.
Do not bite, do not eat it.
If you bought it, return it, if you
can't return it, throw it, don't eat it.
If you are not sure, don't eat it.
If you have hand-slotted zabiha, you can
eat chicken, until you start laying eggs.
I don't care, no problem.
But if it is not zabiha, don't touch
it.
InshaAllah.
We ask Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A
'la to help us to eat halal, to
earn halal, and to accept our duas without
any hesitation or hukawat for this.
And we ask Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta
-A'la to give us what we ask
with khair and barakah and afiyah, and to
add to that from His generosity and grace.