Is cow meat lawful.
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Answer:
Is cow meat lawful
In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His
help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide,
and whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We bear
witness that there is none worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear
witness that Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 5 Surah
Maidah verses 3-4:
3 Forbidden to you (for food) are: dead
meat, blood, the flesh of swine, and that on which hath been invoked the name
of other than Allah, that which hath
been killed by strangling, or by a
violent blow, or by a headlong
fall, or by being gored to death; that which hath been (partly) eaten by a wild
animal; unless ye are able to slaughter it (in due form); that which is sacrificed on stone
(altars); (forbidden) also is the division
(of meat) by raffling with arrows: that is impiety. This day have those who reject faith given
up all hope of your religion: yet fear them not but fear Me. This day have I perfected your religion for
you completed my favor upon you and have chosen for you Islam as your
religion. But if any forced by hunger
with no inclination to transgression Allah is indeed Oft-Forgiving Most
Merciful.
4 They ask thee what is lawful to them (as food): say: Lawful unto you are (all) things good and
pure: and what ye have taught your
trained hunting animals (to catch) in the manner directed to you by Allah; eat
what they catch for you but pronounce the name of Allah over it: and fear
Allah; for Allah is swift in taking account.
5 This day are (all) things good and pure made lawful unto
you. The food of the People of the Book
is lawful unto you, and yours is lawful
unto them.
The cow is not listed amongst the ‘haraam’ or unlawful
animals as food for the believers. Thus
if the cow is duly slaughtered, its flesh is absolutely lawful for the
believers to consume.
The eating of the flesh of duly slaughtered cows is a
permission in Shariah, not a Command! Shariah
Law allows and permits the believers to eat the flesh of duly slaughtered
lawful animals; but if the slaughter of a said animal is unlawful in the nation
one lives in, or the flesh of that particular animal is unavailable, or one
does not like the taste of that animal, one is at absolute liberty to abstain
from it.
Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only
due to Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me
alone. Allah Alone Knows Best and He is
the Only Source of Strength.
Your brother and
well wisher in Islam,
Burhan
