Qurbani at abattoirs is halal, says activist
BLC allows slaughtering of Australian sheep only at abattoirs
Manama
Slaughtering of the sheep for Qurbani in the absence of the Qurbani giver is fair in Islam and there is no problem in it, said Dawa Director Discover Islam Bahrain Shaikh Ahmed Khan.
His comments came following the Bahrain Livestock Company’s (BLC) latest announcement that the Australian sheep will be slaughtered only at their slaughterhouse unlike the Somali sheep, which is available for the buyer to take home and slaughter it there.
Stating that it was only to do the Qurbani in an organised way, he said generally, people used to tether the sheep very tightly with the rope and put them in their cars to carry home and then they put the animals in the bathrooms as they had no place to keep them.
When the Human Rights organisations raised the issue of cruelty to the animals, the BLC stopped the delivery of the live animals to the buyer.
Shaikh Ahmed said that the BLC was allowing the delivery of the live animals to the owners of the farmhouses as they had a place to keep them.
He said they had given 60 to 70 Muslim butchers to the abattoirs for this purpose and they would slaughter the animals according to the teachings of Islam. “So there is no point of worrying about this issue.”
“The Qurbani is the command of Allah and if He asks for life they would do so happily,” he commented.
Shaikh Ahmed told the expatriates that they should do their Qurbani in Bahrain instead of sending money back to their home countries for Qurbani.
“The new generation must know about Qurbani and how would they know if their families keep on doing so in their home countries instead of before the eyes of their children here,” he added.
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