بسم
الله الرحمن
الرحيم
In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
Islamic method of Slaughtering
animals is Better
...scientific
reason...
http://www.themodernreligion.com/misc/an/an_slaughter.htm
Al Shaddad Bin Aous has quoted this tradition of the Holy Prophet (Peace-Be-Upon-Him) "God calls for mercy in everything, so be merciful when you kill and when you slaughter, sharpen your blade to relieve its pain".
Many allegations
have been
made that Islamic slaughter is not humane to animals. However,
Professor
Schultz and his colleague Dr. Hazim of the Hanover University, Germany,
proved
through an experiment, using an electroencephalograph (EEG) and
electrocardiogram (ECG) that *Islamic slaughter is THE humane method of
slaughter* and captive bolt stunning, practiced by the Western method,
causes
severe pain to the animal. The results surprised many.
Experimental
Details:
1. Several electrodes were
surgically implanted at various points of the
skull of all animals, touching the surface of the brain.
2.
The animals
were allowed to recover for several weeks.
3.
Some
animals were slaughtered by making a swift, deep incision with a sharp
knife on the neck cutting the jugular veins and carotid Arteries of
both sides;
as also the trachea and esophagus Halaal Method.
4.
Some
animals were stunned using a captive bolt pistol humane slaughter
by the western method.
5.
During the
experiment, EEG and ECG were recorded on all animals to
record the condition of the brain and heart during the course of
slaughter and
stunning.
Results
and Discussion:
I
- Halaal
Method
1.
The first
three seconds
from the time of Islamic slaughter as recorded on the EEG did not show
any
change from the graph before slaughter, thus indicating that the animal
did not
feel any pain during or immediately after the incision.
2. For the following 3
seconds, the EEG recorded a condition of deep sleep - unconsciousness.
This is
due to a large quantity of blood gushing out from the body.
3. After the above-mentioned 6
seconds, the EEG recorded zero level, showing no feeling of pain at all.
4. As the brain message (EEG)
dropped to zero level, the heart was still pounding and the body
convulsing
vigorously (a reflex action of the spinal cord) driving maximum blood
from the
body: resulting in hygienic meat for the consumer.
II
- Western
method by C.B.P. Stunning
1. The animals were apparently
unconscious soon after stunning.
2. EEG showed severe pain
immediately after stunning.
3. The hearts of the animal
stunned by C.B.P. stopped beating earlier as compared to those of the
animals
slaughtered according to the Halaal method resulting in the retention
of more
blood in the meat. This in turn is unhygienic for the consumer.
(Many
thanks to
Muslim Students Organization - University of Miami)
Western
Method used on cattle before slaughter can send brain tissue scattering
throughout the animal, which could provide a route for madcow
disease.
For
detail
see the web sight:
http://www.themodernreligion.com/misc/an/an_slaughter.htm
Slaughtering Beasts Before
Death Guarantees
Purification Of Flesh & Being Free From Microbes &
Bacterium
In Quraan, Allah
says:
Forbidden
unto you (for food) are carrion
and blood and swine flesh, and that which hath been dedicated unto any
other
than Allah, and the strangled, and the dead through beating, and the
dead
through falling from a height, and that which hath been killed by (the
going
of) horns, and the devoured of wild beasts, saving that which ye make
lawful
(by the death stroke), and that which hath been immolated unto idols.
And
(forbidden is it) that ye swear by the divining arrows. This is an
abomination.
This day are those who disbelieve in despair of (ever harming) your
religion;
so fear them not, fear Me! This day have I perfected your religion for
you and
completed My favor unto you, and have chosen for you as religion
AL-ISLAM. [Al_Quraan.005:003]
This
case of Islamic sacrifice by
slaughtering - legitimate - beasts before eating is one of the cases
used
against Islam based on unawareness of The Divine orders, which are
perfect and
complete. Many debates with Islamic, minor, communities in Britain,
USA,
France, and other western countries regarding this case,
specially
societies caring for animals which condemns this rite and tries to show
the
sheep, after being slaughtered, while they are kicking and twisting in
pain,
and thus accusing Muslims by savagery and wildness. This position, in
addition
to being a face of spite and distortion, is considered a duplicated
unawareness
of what has been discovered and proven through the modern science.
In
what follows we try to show the wisdom
behind this Islamic way of slaughtering and why the other kinds,
mentioned in
the holy verse above, are forbidden, in the light of the modern science:
The
carrion is a store of microbes and
severe diseases. Consider if we put one gram of blood and one gram of
flesh in
an open place, and then, after 3 or 4 hours, we wanted to eat them ...
will
this cause any harm?
YES
... a severe harm. For the blood, the disease
causing microbes are likely to be transferred to it through the knife
used for
slaughtering, or through the surrounding air, or maybe from any close
source.
When a microbe gets into blood it's geometrically multiplied every 30
minutes
and becomes 2 microbes. Assume that 1000 microbes got into that gram of
blood,
then after 30 minutes they become 2000, and after an hour they become
4000, and
after one hour and half they become 8000.... Thus after the 3 hours the
number
of microbes increase to become 64000 microbes in that gram of blood.
It's well
known that blood already contains a huge amount of microbes, even after
death
it becomes much harmful if drunk or stored then drunk.
And
what about the piece of flesh?
Regarding
the piece of flesh, microbes
start by attacking the outer surface by destroying the hard layer which
microbes can't penetrate, then a great amount of them dies because of
shortage
of nurture and incapability of reproduction. When the cook tends to
cook this
piece, he first washes it from outside, thus an amount of microbes is
removed,
and then by cooking an additional amount is killed.
The
Swine Flesh:
A
so-called microbe, Yarsine, wasn't
found except in the swine flesh, and it lives in a very low temperature
around
-40C. Many Europeans are infected by this microbe, and it's the
responsible for
many of backbone and joints diseases. Research proved the existence of
this
microbe in water and many sorts of food, but when human eats
them it isn't
as harm as those in the swine's mouth which is considered a suitable
environment for it to grow.
Although
swine is treated by penicillin
and many antibiotics, it carries a lot of bacterium, and day after
another
science exposes a new disease caused by eating swine flesh. Some
statistics
showed a new infection by tapeworm in Denmark, and it's known that the
life
cycle of tapeworm takes place only in man or swine!!
Is
there any harm caused by eating the
flesh of a strangled beast?
A
relation was recently discovered
between the human health and the diseases by which the strangled beast
was
infected. The wall of the large intestine acts as a barrier
preventing
passage of microbes from inside the large intestine - where excrements
exist -
to the beast body and blood as long as it's alive. When the beast is
strangled
it slowly dies. This slow death is dangerous because the resistance of
the wall of the large intestine is gradually lost causing the
harmful
microbes to pass to blood and flesh, and through blood circulation
these
microbes are further transferred to all parts of the beast, which
haven't died
yet. Moreover, microbes get through the blood vessels to flesh because
of low
resistance of those vessels membranes. The beast thus becomes a store
of
harmful microbes after death.
The
Dead through Beating:
Is
there resemblance between death by
strangling and beating?
Yes,
the beast, which dies through
beating also, suffers slow death exactly the same as the strangled, and
the
same scenario happens here. In addition: beating causes disruption of
vessels
and cells in the position of beating, so a mixture between blood
components and
cells components occurs, and probably causes interaction of toxic
materials.
That's why a tumor appears at the beating position. It's caused by
these toxic
chemical interactions, besides the slough skin. Thus the beast dead
through
beating has become a store of harmful microbes dangerous for human
health.
The
Dead through Falling from a Height:
The
beast may die differently by
falling from a height … then what about its flesh?
The
beast, which dies in that way, is
just like which dies through beating, because in the position of
falling the
disruption occurs and it slowly dies. Even if it died just after
falling, the
microbes rapidly attack its body and that's why rottenness appears soon
on its
carrion, as a sign of the dangerous microbes inside it.
The
killed by horns:
Some
beasts die by each other's horns,
is there any danger caused by eating the flesh of them?
Dieing
like that is similar to death
through beating, but even more dangerous. Often, when a beast butts by
its
horns it hits abdomen position, specially in the intestine, so the
dirty horn
gets into the blood in the intestine of the other beast, and this
polluted
blood circulates in its body causing death. It's a true danger to eat
such
flesh.
The
Devoured of Wild Beasts:
When
a wild beast ravens some beast,
then what about eating its flesh?
It's
well known that the claws of a wild
beast are filled with microbes, and when it sticks them into the
other's body
the microbes moves through its blood, thus it slowly dies and becomes a
store
of harmful microbes.
Saving
that which Ye Make Lawful [The
Wisdom of Islamic Sacrifice]:
What
if a beast was exposed to any of
the above methods, but it remained alive till we slaughtered it before
it dies?
Thus
we have extracted the main source of
transferring microbes, that's blood, and they can't go further to other
organs.
When a
beast is slaughtered before death
then its body gets rid of this substance, which spreads microbes inside
it,
because blood is the important biological liquid in the body of a
living being,
and which can resist millions of parasites through white corpuscles and
antibodies as long as the living being is still alive in its natural
temperature. But when it dies and blood stops circulation, microbes
faces no
resistance, and in this case the best way is to completely pour out
that blood
from the body as soon as possible.
Mercy
for Animals in Islam:
When
we slaughter a beast and cut its
vessels, does it feel pain?
The
answer is simple: try to press any
person in the same position of slaughtering; he will fall
faint in
moments. The centers of pain sensing become inoperative if the blood
pumping
stopped for 3 minutes only, because they need Oxygen continuously.
How
can we say that the beast doesn't
feel any pain while we find it kicking and twisting in pain?
This
is because the nervous system is
still working and it just lost its awareness. Since the neck wasn't
broken yet,
then the nervous system isn't invaded and so still working. In the
Islamic way
of sacrifice the nervous system tends to sending signals from brain to
heart
requesting blood because it has depletion of it, and signals to muscles
to send
blood to heart, and signals to whole body to help brain by sending
blood.
Immediately,
the muscles shrink and a
strong movement happens in the guts and interior and exterior muscles,
pressing
strongly to pump all of the blood to heart, which in turn beats rapidly
to be
full of blood, and then sends it to the brain. However, on the way,
blood gets
out of the body through the cut vessels and don't reach brain. So, we
see the
beast twisting and bleeding until its body becomes empty of blood
… thus it
gets rid of the main environment of microbes growth.
Thus
the slaughtered beast dies in 3
seconds only if it's slaughtered in the right way, and what we see as
kicking,
twisting, spasm and the like are just indications of the still alive
nervous
system, while the slaughtered beast doesn't feel any pain.
Conclusion:
All of
these medical secrets and healthy
insights were mentioned in The Holy Quraan. {Falsehood cannot come at
it from
before it or behind it. (It is) a revelation from the Wise, the Owner
of
praise} [Al_Quraan.041:042]. It guides us to every benefit and warns us
from
every evil.
Source:
Al-Eijaz Magazine (Scientific Miracles), vol. 3&4.
The magazine is
published by "The Committee on Scientific Miracles in Quraan and
Sunnah", Makkah al-Mukarramah ( مكة
المكرمة),
KSA.
For
Foreign receivers: This essay is
translated from Arabic. Please if you found any error in expressions or
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