Q: What is your opinion - may Allah be merciful to you - on the following question: The meat exported from Denmark to Arab Muslim countries, which is being slaughtered using the following method:1- The animal is brought alive to the automated slaughter house.2- Its forehead is shot with a kind of a gun - I am sending a photo of the gun and the mechanism of our work (Part No. 22; Page No. 466) to Your Eminence along with my question - where the bullets do not enter the head so as not to touch the animal's bones, skeleton or flesh.3- Immediately after being hit, the animal falls down unconscious, but remains alive; moving its legs, tail, eyes, and organs, and its heart and veins continue to beat for a long period of time.4- After the animal falls down unconscious, a Muslim supervisor from the Islamic Cultural Center comes to slaughter the animal with a knife according to the Islamic method, where he cuts the jugular veins and the esophagus after saying: Bismillah - Allahu Akbar (In the name of Allah -Allah is the Most Great).5- After being slaughtered, the animal shakes violently and the blood gushes from its body.6- All the subsequent processes afterwards, even chopping and packing, take place under the supervision of a Muslim with sound `Aqidah (creed), neither a Qadyani nor a Baha'i.Is slaughtering in this way Halal (lawful) or Haram (prohibited)?

A: Slaughtering animals in the way that was mentioned is Halal (lawful). This is based on the general saying of Allah (Glorified and Exalted be He): Forbidden to you (for food) are: Al-Maitah (the dead animals - cattle - beast not slaughtered) to His Saying: ...unless you are able to slaughter it (before its death) However, shooting them with a gun or any other instrument that may torture them is an impermissible abominable act, (Part No. 22; Page No. 467) since the Prophet (peace be upon him) said: Allah has decreed proficiency in everything. So when you kill, kill well, and when you slaughter, slaughter well. Let one of you sharpen their blade and spare suffering to the animal they slaughter. Related by Ahmad, Muslim and Al-Nasa'y .May Allah grant us success. May peace and blessings be upon our Prophet Muhammad, his family, and Companions.