Mechanical Slaughter Back to Haunt us and we didn't even know!

As you know, we have discussed Mechanical Slaughter here and all have agreed and accepted as not acceptable and HARAM!

We all know too that HFA used to endorse mechanical slaughter but took a new turn on their policies and stopped certifying mechanical slaughter.

Since the new CEO of HFA Saqib Mohammed has taken over from Masood Khwaja, things have improved for them and for the Muslims.

Unfortunately, it doesn't stop there. Yesterday we looked into FAKE Certificates and stumbled across more certifiers and found a big mess!

Since Masood Khwaja left HFA and went into retirement in 2013, he made a come back with with yet another Halal certifier. The problem here is that his influence on the Halal Market has allowed him to attract big clients.

We found from the fake certificates that one of the major Halal food supplier to shools, colleges, airlines etc across the UK are being certified by Masood Khwaja who STILL ENDORSES MECHANICAL SLAUGHTER!

This company known as Halal Consultations has named the Masood Khwaja as the Anchor Person of this company who is PRO MECHANICAL SLAUGHTER.

This means that many of our children are consuming Haram in the name of Halal!

An old friend contacted me recently who is not a Hanafi and doesn't understand Urdu and wanted to discuss this matter. I had to re-read a lot to jog my memory on the subject.

The discussion between the 4 Madhabs is this:

1. What is the status of the animal is Tasmiyah is ommitted but nothing else is read in its place? We know this can and does happen with mechanical slaughter.
2. What is the status of the animal is Tasmiyah is ommitted but something Shirk is read in its pleace e.g. Glory be to Jesus Christ etc?
3. What is the status of multiple animals are slaughtered, how should Tasmiyah be read?

• Should it be read by the same individual who is doing the slaughtering?
• What is the status when Tasmiyah is read by another individual other then the one who is slaughtering? This is the most pertinent point because in mechanical sluaghter a mechanical kife is doing Dhabihah while a human is reading Tasmiyyah (when pressing the ON/OFF button) to control the knife
• Should Tasmiyah be read on each animal or a collective Tasmiyyah when more than 1 animals are being slaughtered is sufficient? This is also important because we know that human will neither be in synch nor keep pace with mechanical slaughter? Is anyone keeping track of Tasmiyah to slaughter?
• What if there is delay in Tasmiyah and what sort of delay is acceptable?

After reading hundreds of pages of information, we need to really avoid mechanical slaughter because there are too many unknowns here...