03-14-2007, 07:06 PM
Bismillah
Wa alaikum assalam
If the fish is not already dead it has to be dead before eating it. And there is no halal slaughter for sea food to my knowledge.
The Qur'an say:
''<b>Lawful to you is</b> the pursuit of water-game <b>and its use for food</b>,- for the benefit of yourselves and those who travel; but forbidden is the pursuit of land-game;- as long as ye are in the sacred precincts or in pilgrim garb. And fear Allah, to Whom ye shall be gathered back. '' 5:96
Muslim
Volume 5, Book 59, Number 648:
Narrated Jabir:
We set out in the army of Al-Khabt and Abu Ubaida was the commander of the troops. We were struck with severe hunger and <b>the sea threw out a dead fish </b> the like of which we had never seen, and it was called Al-'Anbar. We ate of it for half a month. Abu Ubaida took (and fixed) one of its bones and a rider passed underneath it (without touching it). (Jabir added:) Abu 'Ubaida said (to us), "Eat (of that fish)." When we arrived at Medina, we informed the Prophet about that, and he said, "<b>Eat, for it is food Allah has brought out for you</b>, and feed us if you have some of it." So some of them gave him (of that fish) and he ate it.
If the fish is not hurt in the process when you take it up from the water, could it then not just go back into the sea for a longer while? :blink: