jzubairi@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Junaid Ahmed Zubairi) (09/25/90)
============================== One more question Since Brother Jamshed has mentioned people of the book and their laws, I have an additional question. What I understand from different opinions gathered from present day scholars, including Dr. Jamal Badawai of Canada, Dr. Israr Ahmed of Pakistan, and the scholar of Arab News who replies to queries on "our dialogue" page, if chickens, lambs, and cows are allowed to bleed while being slaughtered , then the meat available in USA is ok to eat. because by definition, christians and jews are people of the book and Suratul Maidah in Quran gives them special status as far as relations with muslims are considered. On the other hand, Ulema in Pakistan are rather strict on this question and they reject such meat mostly haram. What is the practice of most muslims living in USA and Europe? What opinions have they heard about it? Thanks Wassalam Junaid Zubairi
seth@attunix.att.com (Seth R Rosenthal) (09/27/90)
In article <15974@wpi.WPI.EDU>, jzubairi@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Junaid Ahmed Zubairi) writes:
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< One more question
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< Since Brother Jamshed has mentioned people of the book
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< What I understand from different opinions gathered from
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< Canada, Dr. Israr Ahmed of Pakistan, and the scholar of
< Arab News who replies to queries on "our dialogue" page,
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< being slaughtered , then the meat available in USA is ok to eat.
< because by definition, christians and jews are people of the book
< and Suratul Maidah in Quran gives them special status as far as
< relations with muslims are considered.
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< On the other hand, Ulema in Pakistan are rather strict on this
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< What is the practice of most muslims living in USA and Europe?
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I have always been under the impression that if Islamic
meat preparation has not been available in a community
with Muslim residents, that they have always been
willing to use meat slaughtered by a kosher butcher.
Is this not true? I am also not aware of special
slaughtering practices on behalf of Christianity. Of
course Christians in general have no problem with pork.
Seth Rosenthal