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Q 2: We hope that your Eminence would clarify to us the right way of slaughtering, as our scholars have differed concerning whether or not to lay a slaughtered animal on its right or left side. One Shaykh would say that it should be laid on its left side, another would say that it should be laid on its right side to let the sacrificial animal face the Qiblah (Ka`bah-direction faced in Prayer), for Allah (Exalted be He) says: (Part No. 22; Page No. 477) And wheresoever you people are, turn your faces (in prayer) in that direction. If we laid it on its left side, we would not face the Qiblah as commanded in the previous Ayah (Qur'anic verse) and the following Ayah says: Verily, I have turned my face towards Him Who has created the heavens and the earth Hanîfa (Islâmic Monotheism, i.e. worshipping none but Allâh Alone), and I am not of Al-Mushrikûn (See V.2:105)".

A 2: The Sunnah is to lay the animal to be slaughtered on its left side facing the Qiblah, for this is much easier for the person who is slaughtering the animal.May Allah grant us success. May peace and blessings be upon our Prophet Muhammad, his family, and Companions.