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All foods are considered Halal except the following, which are haram:
· Swine/pork and its by-products
· Animals improperly slaughtered or dead before slaughtering
· Animals killed in the name of anyone other than ALLAH (God)
· Alcohol and intoxicants
· Carnivorous animals, birds of prey and land animals without
external ears
· Blood and blood by-products
· Foods contaminated with any of the above products
Definition
of Zabiha
The term zabiha comes from the Arabic root zabaha , which means "to
kill (by slitting the throat); to slaughter, butcher, to murder, slay;
to sacrifice." So, zabiha meat is meat slaughtered by slitting
the throat of the animal. In this context, however, it is used to mean
meat slaughtered by a Muslim using the properly prescribed method as
is indicated in the Sunnat-an-Nabi (life example of the Prophet, upon
whom be peace).
The meat that is halal to Muslims is described
by Allah in the Qur'an
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…"
(Qur'an 5:3)
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