Meat cooked by a non-Muslim cook

Question

Question: In the boarding house where I live, the cooks who prepare the food are Hindus. Two kinds of meat are cooked: jhatka (killing an animal with a single blow, without ritual slaughter) and also halal; most people eat jhatka. In this situation, may the Muslim students eat meat cooked by the Hindu, when he says, “We cook halal meat separately for the Muslims”? Or should they make do with vegetables and lentils, as the non-meat-eating Hindu students do? Or should such meat be eaten on their word?

Answer

Since the one who cooks is a single person, who is a non-Muslim, and he cooks both kinds of meat — halal and haram, ritually slaughtered (dhabiha) and jhatka — caution is difficult: having stirred one meat with the spoon he will stir the other with it, and a piece or spices from one getting into the other is not at all far-fetched.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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