Machine Slaughter and an Animal Slaughtered by a Jew

Question

One of my brothers is studying in America. He is in doubt as to whether the meat of slaughtered animals there conforms to the Shari‘a. He says that two kinds of meat are available there. The first is where a machine cuts off the animal’s neck in one go, and the same machine packs the pieces of meat within a short time. The second kind of meat is cut by the Jews there; it is called “kosher.

Answer

As for machine slaughter, it is evident that it is not a Shari‘a slaughter. As for the Jews: if they acknowledge Hazrat Musa ﵇ as a prophet and the Torah as a heavenly scripture, and when slaughtering an animal they slaughter while pronouncing the name of Allah, and do not slaughter while pronouncing the name of anyone else — for example, the name of Hazrat ‘Uzayr ﵇ — then the…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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