Oxford English Thesaurus gives us words which have same meaning for the word ‘intensive’ such as, rigorous, exhaustive, comprehensive, conscientious, elaborate and widespread. Likewise Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary translates it as an increase, profound, logical and agricultural increase of provision and quality of crops. Here, we will discuss “intensive farming” in relation to Fish. We all…
Tobacco / Smoking Smoking of tobacco is one of the subjects which one would not find in the Qur’an the Holy Scripture, authentic Ahadiths or in any books of jurisprudence. For this reason we have to look into the origin and history of “tobacco” and ascertain how it came about in usage as we see…
This word is often used in connection with pre-slaughtering devise and has become a source of division in sanctioning of halal slaughtering process. As we are frequently making use of ” science and technology “in nearly all necessities and activities of our lives, it becomes imperative that we learn more about it. Stun means to…
Intensive Farming – Poultry Intensive Farming as we have discussed earlier means rigorous widespread cultivation, rearing of provision in farming of species and variety of agricultural produce that are required in abundance in present day niche market. Let us take present day chicken, which was not very long time ago known as ‘domestic foul’. Historically…
Pork and pork fat or porcine substances are much more in use in the Western hemisphere and, questions are frequently asked that why Muslims always do abstain from touching or eating Pork. Firstly there are other People of the Book those who do not consume pork. And secondly it is categorically mentioned in the Qur’an…
Mechanical killing is a term that denotes that in poultry slaughterhouses which are fully mechanised, slaughtering is carried out by a fixed rotating blade. Throats are cuts by the blade without severing the spinal cord and for Zibah rule compliance licensed Muslim slaughterers are standing at the station doing the rendition of Shahada and Tasmiya…
Kosher is the meat and food that is permissible for the Jewish community. To make meat kosher it is slaughtered in a specific way which is called Shechita. Thus Kosher is for Jewish faith like Halal is for the Muslims and, the way meat is slaughtered is known as Shechita , and Muslim would describe…
KHAT A native plant of Horn of Africa and part of Arabian Peninsula ‘Catha edulis’ , which is pronounced as Qat or Khat, chat, qaad, miraa , tohat and Kat has historically been chewed as a social custom for thousands of years .In Yemen it is Qat , in Somalia Jaad and in Ethiopia it…
Declaring the unlawful status and proscribing the Qur’an guides us about haram or forbidden in Chapter 16:115 “He has only forbidden you what ‘dies’ of itself and ‘ blood ‘and ‘flesh of swine’ and that over which any other than that of Allah has been invoked , but whosoever is driven to (dire) necessity ,…
Halal consultation was created to encompass training and to fill one facet missing which is empowering and training of personal who do service industry, mainly personal who are working in butcher shop, distribution of meat and poultry. Halal consultation was created to encompass training and to fill one facet missing which is empowering and training…
The word and concept of Halal is usually understood to be related to meat and poultry and, that as well in terms only of the way slaughtering is done. Whereas this word in Arabic and Qura’nic terms is to signify what is permissible and allowed to do in every day life and, in relation to…
Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are organisms, i. e. plants, animals or microorganisms) in which DNA the genetic material has been altered in a way that does not naturally occur by mating or natural recombination. This is often called “ modern biotechnology “ or “gene technology “or “genetic engineering “. The process allows selected individual…
Halal” is a word in the Holy Scripture, the Qur’an to signify permissibility of usage of something or consumption of specified meat and foodstuffs. “Haram” is an opposite word to Halal which is also mentioned in the Qur’an to denote that something is forbidden or proscribed for usage or consumption. HALAL The Quran directs a…
CLONING According to Webster’s dictionary, cloning is defined as “the technique of producing a genetically identical duplicate of an organism by replacing nucleus of an unfertilised ovum with the nucleus of body cell from the organism”. In bio-chemistry terms, cloning is to “replicate a fragment of DNA placed in organism so that there is sufficient…
Many a Muslim countries customarily have for some time practiced to screen and validate drinking water as permissible for halal consumption. Plastic bottles containing water have been seen to depict halal logo for ease of mind. Water, Origin and Purity The Qur’an affirms that drinking water is sent down from the above; in Surat An-Nahal…
Backbiting is same as eating the meat of a dead person What is backbitting? Backbitting is an air-pollution. The commandment of guarding one’s tongue. Every word is recorded by angels of Allah. Good words please Allah and bad words displease Allah. The believer must speak well or remain silent. The true Muslim avoids hurting others…
