The Proof for Eating Meat

Question

I request that you kindly issue a fatwa regarding meat. Muslim brothers — devout in prayer and of pure thoughts — say that according to the Qur’an the meat of goat, cow, buffalo, bird and fowl is lawful; the great religious scholars say the same. Every teaching of the Qur’an agrees with the books of the Hindu religion, for example the Gita and others: wine, gambling, theft and so on — as clearly as it is set out in the Qur’an, just as clearly it is set out in the books of the Hindu religion, in the Gita and other…

Answer

Islam has declared lawful the meat of certain specified animals, which Muslims may eat. In the Holy Qur’an is the word of Allah the Exalted: [ar]وَٱلْأَنْعَـٰمَ خَلَقَهَا ۗ لَكُمْ فِيهَا دِفْءٌ وَمَنَـٰفِعُ وَمِنْهَا تَأْكُلُونَ[/ar] “And He created the cattle: in them is warmth for you and many benefits, and of them you eat” (Surah al-Nahl, 16:5).

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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