Slaughtering by Electric Shock
Question :
What is the ruling on the meat of animals slaughtered in Muslim countries by way of an electrical instrument. The electric shock is used on the animal so that it falls down on the ground, then the slaughterer slaughters it immediately after it falls to the ground?
Answer:
If the matter is as described, that the animal is slaughtered immediately after it falls to the ground following the shock from the electrical instrument and if it was still alive when he slaughtered it then it is permissible to eat it. But if his cutting takes place after its death, it is not permissible to eat it, because it would fall under the classification of an animal killed by a blow, and Allah has forbidden it, unless it was slaughtered. Slaughtering (i.e., cutting the neck) has no effect unless it is confirmed that it is alive, by it moving its hind leg or its foreleg, or the flow of its blood, or the like, which would prove that it was still alive until the processes slaughter was finished. Allah, Most High says:
"Forbidden to you (for food) are: Al-Maitah (the dead animals cattle-beast not slaughtered), blood, the flesh of swine, and that on which Allah's Name has not been mentioned while slaughtering (that which has been slaughtered as a sacrifice for others than Allah, or has been slaughtered for idols) and that which has been killed by strangling, or by a violent blow, or by a headlong fall, or by the goring of horns and that which has been (partly) eaten by a wild animal- unless you are able to
slaughter it (before its death).
So He has permitted those grazing animals which were afflicted by harm under the condition that they are slaughtered; if not, it is forbidden to eat them.
Source:
The Permanent Committee
Fatawa Islamiyah, Vol. 6 Pages 316-317
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