Quote:Bismillah:
Do Christians invoke the name of Allah when slaughtering their animals? No they don’t, in fact most of them don’t mention any name before slaughtering animals and they don’t even follow the Islamic method of slaughtering animals to avoid many diseases. This makes it haram according to the Qur’an.
"Forbidden to you (for food) are: dead meat, blood, the flesh of swine, <b>and that on which hath been invoked the name of other than Allah."</b>[Qur’an 5:3]
What if those Christians for examples slaughter their animals in the name of the Father, and of the son and of the Holy Spirit? Will we be allowed to eat that meat too? No of course not.
I know that we are allowed to eat the food of the people of the Book <b>as long as it is not haram</b>, and that's why we can very well eat the meat slaughtered by Jews because they are very strict in following the same method of slaughtering animals as Muslims commanded by God and His messenger, and they do mention the name of Allah before slaughtering too, that makes it Halal.
I was not talking about vege or sea food pizzas, although they use the same pans of vege pizza when they cook pork, and who knows, sometimes you find piece of ham went wrong in the vege pizza and we eat it. So its better to eat in a Muslim restaurants when we we are in Non Muslim country to avoid these problems. USA have lots of Halal restaurants masha'Allah, so why we have to eat somewhere else?
We can very well eat pizza hut in a Muslim country, at least we are sure that everything there is Halal.
Well this is my personal opinion.
Salam
Wael.
yes brother but how do u know that the Christians at the time of the Prophet mentioned Allah's name when slaughtering the animals?
At the time of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam the Christians believed in the trininty and the Jesus was God's son (exalted be He).
Also, I have heard from a sister whose husband is a shaikh (or someone else told me about this part, but thta sister also said that they checked out the slaughtering of the meat process) that they checked different places where they slaughter the animals, and she said that they cut the heads of the chickens so they are slaughtered, and it is done by machines (If I remember correctly), so they probably didn't mentioned any name on it.
But like I said they could have done the same think at the time of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
wallahu a'lam
Also, since there is meat in USA slaughtered by Muslims, then it is better to get that meat.
I myself and my family didn't feel comfortable to eat meat from restuarants or buy the meat in stores, except for fish and sea food.
We got our meat from Muslim stores, where Muslims slaughter the meat.
So I don't eat their meat but I can't tell others not to eat it without haveing proof that they don't slaughter it.