Halal Food Part 5
Section 13 of 13 · Faraid in Islam · Ustadh Mahmud Kurkcu
Two Questions Left Open, and the Closing Prayer
Two questions followed directly from this, both left for a fuller treatment later rather than answered on the spot. The first asked whether this made food from McDonald's permissible; the second concerned eating meat raw, of the kind used in the Lebanese dish of kibbeh nayyeh.******** No fatwa was being given in raising either question: what had been offered was an explanation of what the sharīʿah says, set out as clearly and methodically as time allowed, and nothing more — what anyone does with that explanation remains their own responsibility.
The teaching closed, as ever, with a supplication: that Allah (swt) increase beneficial knowledge and put barakah into every life and into this learning; that He make His servants people of taqwā, of ikhlāṣ, of growing yaqīn, and of sound Islamic practice; that He increase their respect for their dīn and enable them to master the nafs al-ammārah, the soul that commands to evil; that He forgive their faults and their sins, keep them upon the straight path, and grant that they and those they love be gathered as neighbours to Muḥammad Muṣṭafā (peace be upon him) in the highest garden of Paradise.
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* Kept as heard. The term for the second, compelled kind of slaughter is given first as "ikhtiyari" (identical to the term for the optional kind, evidently a mishearing) and later as "ithtirari"; it is rendered here as iḍṭirārī, the standard fiqh term for compelled slaughter, which matches the situation described — an animal trapped and dying, impossible to reach at the throat.
** Kept as heard. He lists three forms the forbidden flesh of swine takes: bacon, "a leg of lamb" as given here, and spam. Lamb is not a pork product; alongside bacon and spam, a cut of ham fits the sense intended, and the transcribed phrase is very likely a mishearing of it, though this cannot be stated with certainty.
*** Kept as heard. At this point a short Arabic phrase is said, heard as resembling "lā tanfudh"; it could not be identified with confidence against any established phrase fitting this context, and no attempt is made to render its sense here.
**** Kept as heard. Between AFIC and the Islamic Council of Victoria, this is given as "CCVI" and "all the pizza business" as further certifying bodies; "the pizza business" is almost certainly a mishearing of a further organisation's name, but nothing in the surrounding text makes a specific correction certain, so his own wording is kept.
***** Kept as heard. The place-name here is heard as "Pakabanyol" or similar; it could not be identified with confidence as an actual locality, so his own wording is kept.
****** Kept as heard. What is said here shifts between first and third person — "it came to me, I said, I've never done it before, he is a professor at the university" — in a way that cannot be fully resolved; the account is given in the third person to match the surrounding sentences, but the shift itself is a genuine feature of what was said, not a resolved reading.
******* Kept as said. He introduces this verse as "the fourth ayah" of Sūrat al-Māʾidah, following immediately after the verse discussed above (verse 3); the wording he then recites and translates is verse 5.
******** Kept as heard. The dish named here is given as "kebaniya", with the interjection "ya halawa"; the dish meant is almost certainly kibbeh nayyeh, the Lebanese preparation of raw meat, though the exact wording of the question could not be recovered with confidence.