RE: Why is halal legal?
July 8, 2011 at 6:37 pm
(This post was last modified: July 8, 2011 at 6:44 pm by fr0d0.)
IMO @ the time, the Quran was promoting the most humane/ ethical/ hygenic way to slaugther animals. It's of it's time. Today we have proven better ways of doing it, but Islam demands the precise method as written back then because it has become the act rather than the meaning for the act that has become important. People do this all the time: elevate traditional practices to an illogical status.
If humane slaughter was the ultimate aim, as I think it clearly was when Allah dictated it, then we'd be continuing that ideal rather than mindlessly following the exact same process of a scientifically more primitive culture.
If there's an ethical reason to cause less sufferring, as I think the Quran suggests, then it would be following Allahs will more closely to kill an animal more humanely.
Mentioning Allahs name is also ritual rather than an act of love. Love can't be forced.
If humane slaughter was the ultimate aim, as I think it clearly was when Allah dictated it, then we'd be continuing that ideal rather than mindlessly following the exact same process of a scientifically more primitive culture.
If there's an ethical reason to cause less sufferring, as I think the Quran suggests, then it would be following Allahs will more closely to kill an animal more humanely.
Mentioning Allahs name is also ritual rather than an act of love. Love can't be forced.
