The Shar’ee position on Tasmiya at the time of slaughtering. (A Fiqhi response to the Majlis)

After the removal of the copious amount of stuffing with which this pamphlet has been gratuitously amplified, and once the impulse to respond in kind has been overruled by deeper wisdom and greater decency, the core argument of this diatribe is reduced to one simple claim: that the four madhahib are in agreement on the issue of the tasmiyah during slaughter.

There is a certain element of truth in this claim: all the four madhahib maintain that the tasmiyah forms part of the slaughtering procedure. But what the author of this pamphlet cunningly tries to conceal from his reader is the fact that a significant difference of opinion exists between the madhahib on the exact status of the tasmiyah. Three distinct positions may be spoken of:

1.The tasmiyah is a sunnah. Omitting it, intentionally or unintentionally, does not negatively affect the validity of slaughter, and hence the halal status of the animal. This is the position of Imam Shafi’i. It is also one of various opinions transmitted from Imam Ahmad, and amongst his followers this position was adopted by Abu Bakr al-Marwazi. It is also the preferred opinion of the Maliki jurist Ibn Rushd.

2.The tasmiyah is an integral requirement whose intentional omission renders the slaughter invalid, but if it is omitted by mistake the animal will still be halal. This is the opinion of Imam Abu Hanifah, Imam Malik, and the well-known view of Imam Ahmad.

3.The tasmiyah is an indispensable requirement whose intentional or unintentional omission will make the slaughter invalid. This is another opinion transmitted from Imam Ahmad.

The author of the pamphlet, through a blend of obfuscation, vituperation and the blatant misrepresentation of fact, attempts to reduce all of this to “Fiqhi technicalities which should never feature in the domain of amal (practical Islam).”  In the fervour of his crusading zeal he appears oblivious to the irony of such a statement coming from someone who has for decades filled his organ, The Majlis, and streams of other booklets and pamphlets with what can only be described as fiqhi technicalities.

The fact of the matter is that slaughterers are instructed to recite the tasmiyah, and as a matter of routine, regularly do recite it. However, if it ever does happen that a slaughterer, for some reason or the other, happens to omit the tasmiyah, then what ought to be done? This is where the Fuqaha of the Ummah, drawing guidance from the Qur’an and Sunnah, applied their ijtihad in order to provide solutions, with some taking the view that animals slaughtered without the tasmiyah are still halal, while others draw a line between intentional and unintentional omission.

To the pamphlet’s author, these solutions are nothing but “fiqhi technicalities”  which he dismisses with contempt and for which fails to find a practical application. His own wisdom has something better to offer. In order to give credence to his own “ijtihad”, he commits the atrocious indiscretion of deliberately blurring the lines between regular procedure and an exceptional situation. In the picture which he draws, all slaughterers omit the tasmiyah all the time, and all halal certifying bodies take recourse to these “fiqhi technicalities” all the time, and never for any motive but to undermine to the Sunnah and to make money. And in this conveniently altered picture of reality, it can never be any different, because all other ulama are abominable leeches and it is only he himself who is above reproach. Having permitted himself the dubious indulgence of painting his opponents in the worst possible colours, he proceeds to ride roughshod over the ijtihad of the venerable Imams of Fiqh by dismissing their treatment of exceptional circumstances as both irrelevant and a negation of the Sunnah. With everyone else thus disqualified and dismissed, there remains for the entire Ummah only one single authority pious, learned and venerable enough to have his diktat enforced without question, and that (no surprise) is Molvi AS Desai of the Majlis.

At the crux of this issue lies one simple issue: When one particular component of a deed has been identified by the Fuqaha, or one of them, as sunnah (as opposed to fard or wajib), then the omission of that component entails two separate issues:

•Firstly, the reason for the omission

•Secondly, the status of the deed on account of the omission

The author of this pamphlet, for psychologically transparent reasons, focuses only on the first aspect, and in doing so, insists with all the force of his loutish vocabulary that the omission can only be on account of most despicable of motives. Looking at the second aspect, which is the status of the deed on account of the omission, is something that requires balance and objectivity—qualities which he very obviously has not been blessed with. However, so pronounced is the degree of his audacity that he simply cannot tolerate the fact that the greatest of the Fuqaha of the past could objectively assess what he himself could not; hence his dismissal of their assessment as “fiqhi technicalities that have no place in practical Islam”.

Authored by Moulana Taha Karan
Member of the MJC Fatwa Committee

http://www.mjc.org.za/index.php/home/49-mjc-statements/112-whos-fooling-who

The Muslim Judicial Council Halaal Trust has withdrawn its halaal certification for two fast food outlets in the Western Cape. According to Nabeweya Malick, PRO for the ulema body, the certification was withdrawn because both Wimpy in Ottery and Nandos in Upper Long Street, Cape Town failed to comply with stringent halaal requirements. She did not provide further details.

However, Malick said, the withdrawal of the halaal certification should give the public peace of mind that the halaal issuing authority did not hesitate to act when it became aware that its halaal criteria were not fully being met. One of the criteria set by all halaal issuing authorities is the absence of any alcohol on the premises of a certified outlet. It also requires that some of the staff on sight be Muslims who can oversee the halaal handling of food.

“The MJC has very high halaal standards. I cannot reveal why the certification were withdrawn, but you can be sure that something had happened to make the MJC unwilling to put its halaal stamp on these places. So it is important for our community not to support these stores,” Malick said. She added that it was an important notice for Muslims to take note of since it was generally accepted that most Nandos outlets in the Western Cape were halaal.

THE TWO VIOLATED FUNDAMENTALS OF THABAH RAINBOW, EARLYBIRD AND ALL COMMERCIALLY KILLED CHICKENS AT NON-MUSLIM KILLING FACILITIES AND ALL FRANCHISE OULETS PREPARING THESE CHICKENS ARE HARAAM BECAUSE THE FOLLOWING TWO FUNDAMENTALS FOR THE MEAT TO BE HALAAL ARE GROSSLY AND TOTALLY VIOLATED AND DISREGARDED:

(1) TASMIYAH: OMISSION OF ALLAH’S NAME IS THE NORM AND IS PRACTISED ON A MASSIVE SCALE (2) NECK-CUTTING IS EXTREMELY HAPHAZARD. A SIGNIFICNT FACT OF EVIDENCE FOR THIS CLAIM IS THAT THE NIHT HAS ESTABLISHED BY ITS INSPECTION OF SANHA’S CERTIFIED ANCA CHICKEN PLANT THAT DESPITE THE LINE SPEED BEING ‘ONLY’ 16 BIRDS PER MINUTE, THE END RESULT WAS 87% HARAAM CHICKENS. 1

INTRODUCTION

RESPONSE TO THE LIES OF SANHA’S LACKEY

In response to a concerned Brother, one Mr.Siraj Desai of Port Elizabeth, deeming it appropriate to align himself in defence of SANHA, the flag-ship of the halaalizer of haraam carrion chickens, structured his letter on the basis of lies, fabrications and pure slanders. For the claims of slander and baseless suppositions which he has advanced in defence of SANHA, he is not able to present a single valid, rational substantiation.

This traitor, like all traitors has acquitted himself treacherously by coming out in defence of SANHA in total denial of the Haqq, and in opposition to his Shafeeq (affectionate) Ustadh who led him from the tender age of 15 most affectionately by the hand from the kindergarten level of Deeni Ilm through the labyrinthal pathways of Uloom to the brink of the achievement of the Aalim Fadhil qualification. This lost soul, Siraj Desai, in his insane desire for cheap publicity and self-aggrandizement, is the character who was expelled from the Mujlisul Ulama of S.A., expelled from Jamiatul Ulama Eastern Cape, and dismissed from the Imaamate post of Musjidul Fuqara, the Jamiah Musjid in Port Elizabeth. He has been effectively ‘defrocked’ and ‘deturbaned’ by his Ustaadh, The Editor of The Majlis.

We remind this notorious character as well as others of his ilk that one can become an ex-wife, ex-husband, ex-mureed, but never an ex-student and an ex-son. The relationship of parenthood and the relationship which Ilm-e-Deen creates between the Ustaadh and his shaagird (student) is everlasting and endures beyond the grave, hence Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said that “He who taught you one word of the Qur’aan, is your master and you are his slave’. The Ustaadh’s rank and Haqq over his shaagird are next after the rank and right of

2 35

parents. The traitor’s and the ingrate’s treachery against his Ustaadh is an unforgivable crime of the worst kind. Precisely for this reason are all spiritual (roohaani) channels closed and blocked for this miserable supporter of SANHA’s carrion industry. But we have to concede that “Birds of a feather flock together”. That is this stercoraceous and SANHA.

Since the haraam drivel of his letter was circulated on the internet, our response will, Insha’Allah, dispel the stercoraceous stench created by this stercoraceous organism (ju’al in Arabic) who, by virtue of his intentionally designed lies in defence of the haraam SANHA carrion outfit, comes fully within the glare of the Rasulullah’s stricture:

“VERILY, THE MOST FALSE (I.E. THE WORST OF

SLANDEROUS) TALK IS CONJECTURE.” Even a genuine suspicion, not based on facts, is described as ‘akthabul hadeeth’(THE WORST OF LIES). But, this molvi who has deviated from the Haqq has conjectured and conjured his fabrications with nothing but intentional and calculated LIES.

oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

ASSALAMU ALAIKUM

15 Rajab 1430 (10-07-2009)

Molvi Ahmed Saeed Adam (Barbados), P.O.Box 9786 Azaadville 1750

Muhtaram Molvi Saheb,

Your letter dated 15 Jamadil Aakhir 1430 refers. If you had followed this chicken saga properly and carefully read all the pamphlets and Majlis articles, and studied the facts, you would not have experienced any difficulty in sifting the admixture of

are four slaughterers on the line, the four Ulama inspection team can vouch and take an oath in Allah’s Name that with their own eyes they saw only THREE slaughterers on the line. This is corroborated by ALL the slaughterers. In addition it is corroborated by letters of the MJC and of Earlybird. In these letters following condition for the Halaal standard stipulated by the MJC and SANHA, and accepted by Earlybird is unequivocally stated:

“The South African National Halaal Authority (i.e. Sanha) has laid down clear guidelines regarding what they require in terms of Halaal Rules and Regulations: (1)Three slaughterers on the line at all times.” (Earlybird’s Memorandum, dated 30 October 2000, “To All Halaal Slaughterers and All Halaal Supervisors”.

“However, I wish to confirm further that the following should be adhered to at all times:-Three slaughterers should be on line at all times” (Imam Yasin Harris, Director of the MJC, in a letter dated 31 October 2000 to Early Bird Farms).

Tomorrow there is a Day called Qiyaamah and a Divine Court where all this rot of SANHA and Maulana Patel and the whole gang will be exposed. May Allah Ta’ala save us from the evil of our nafs and the snares of shaitaan.

Was-salaam

A.S. Desai for

MUJLISUL ULAMA OF S.A.

34

alerting the Muslim community about the carrion they are being fed by SANHA and miscreant, deviated ‘molvis’. Did those Ulama too bribe the slaughterers? Can this evil molvi come forward to take an oath in Allah’s Name that we had bribed the slaughterers? The miserable deviate conveniently forgets that it is SANHA and his own likes who are being bribed by the chicken plants with riba money to sustain the haraam ‘halaal’ certificates. It is SANHA and the likes of the deviate who are being bribed with millions of rand to sweep under the carpet the numerous haraam malpractices plaguing the carrion chicken plants.

According to the lost ‘molvi’, the slaughterers “will sing your tune” for money. So let SANHA who had fraudulently attempted to get Earlybird’s slaughterers to sign a fraudulent and criminal affidavit, pay the slaughterers some riba bucks to induce them to sing their tune of ‘halaal’. If bribery could have achieved SANHA’s goal, then the vile SANHA molvis would have a long time ago bribed the slaughterers for their silence, and for refuting us.

Lies, fraud, deceit and malice have become the salient weapons of the SANHA gang which the molvi is supporting. He has his own corrupt hubb-e-jah agenda. This vile ‘molvi’ is a silent and a dumb shaitaan.

(18) Before MJC and SANHA, the then Jamiatul Ulama Transvaal operated by Mia’s Farm, had issued Earlybird a halaal certificate. After some time they withdrew their halaal certificate. The reasons were never made public. (19) While the evil molvi who had never set foot in the Earlybird chicken plant, brazenly lies with his claim that there 3

truth and falsehood thereby separating haqq from baatil, and at the same time you would have saved me valuable time which I was constrained to devote to responding to the lies and fabrications of the miserable character who is out to confuse the Muslim community in his nefarious and haraam bid to support SANHA’s carrion industry.

Before answering the deceptive arguments of the writer, I too shall enlighten you with some background information to assist you to understand this issue better. The chicken saga did not begin last year when The Majlis took up the matter of Rainbow and Earlybird. The chicken corruption began way back in the early 1970’s. I personally inspected some chicken plants certified by the MJC who is presently certifying Earlybird. At three of the largest MJC certified plants in Cape Town, which included Rainbow, I together with others who had accompanied me established the following facts:

(1) The line speed was 180 chickens per minute. This was handled by only three slaughterers. The net result is 60 chickens per minute per slaughterer. Now if all the people of the whole world testify that the line speed is or was 135 per minute, then even if they all stand on their heads and testify, then I shall smile and reject them all and brand them liars because I myself together with the others established this fact. Furthermore, I published these facts in The Majlis. No one – not the MJC nor Rainbow or anyone else had ever refuted this contention. (2) Not a single slaughterer was reciting Tasmiyah at all. In those days they did not wear face masks as they do today. I saw with my own eyes, slaughterers smoking and talking while cutting. 4

(3) When I questioned them about Tasmiyah, they said that when they begin, they recite Tasmiyah once and that covers all the chickens they slaughter. Others said that Tasmiyah was in their hearts. Some said that the MJC sheikhs said that Tasmiyah was not necessary. No one disputed the irrefutable fact that Tasmiyah was NOT being recited. Near to Port Elizabeth is the Rocklands chicken plant also certified by MJC. Three Ulama (I was not among them) who were also opposed to my methodology, and who had become part of the Eastern Cape MJC, went to inspect the plant. They discovered the very same haraam irregularities mentioned above. Despite their differences with me, they nevertheless, were not SANHA type molvis. Alhamdulillah, they issued a public statement declaring the chickens haraam. This was published.

Soon after these three Ulama had made their inspection, I paid a surprise visit to the same plant. As I entered, I saw the MJC’s ‘chief halaal inspector’ slaughtering chickens. One metre from him a black non-Muslim was also slaughtering chickens on the same line. When I queried this with the inspector, he stupidly said that the chickens which the non-Muslim was slaughtering would be separated and sold to non-Muslim hotels. Now imagine the degree of jahaalat and the attempt to cover up the haraam corruption and the carrion chickens when there was no way of differentiating between the chickens killed by the inspector and the non-Muslim. Yet, they continued, like SANHA, to market the chickens ‘halaal’.

We published all these facts, and no one from MJC refuted the facts. It is essential to remember that this happened almost 45 years ago. At least at that time even the MJC sheikhs were not

33

In making this sweeping statement of buhtaan, this kath-thaab (chief of liars) has slandered many Ulama without him having the slightest semblance of evidence for his bribery slander. What is his evidence for this slander? Who had paid the bribe and to whom, and when? From whom did this LIAR get any information in this regard? From the slaughterers? If so, why does he not assist his SANHA bosom friends in his bid to bail them out of the rotten quagmire of haraam carrion?

It devolves upon the molvi as an incumbent obligation to pursue the bribery matter to establish the truth or falsehood of it. But without the slightest evidence, this miserable molvi of soo’ (evil) deems it proper and an act of Taqwa to smear honest Ulama with his buhtaan-najaasat of bribery.

How many slaughterers were bribed? How much money did they get and who paid the money? Were only Rainbow’s slaughterers ‘bribed”? Or were Earlybird’s slaughterers also bribed? So far, 16 Rainbow slaughterers and 15 Earlybird slaughterers have signed sworn affidavits. Have all of them been bribed? In our opinion the only atonement for this colossal buhtaan is that the miscreant should himself cut out his tongue and give it to dogs for raw meat to devour. While carrion chickens are haraam for dogs, this molvi’s tongue in our opinion will be halaal for dogs. Indeed this man of baatil is Iblees incarnate, for it is only devils who are capable of such slander for which there exists not the slightest shred of evidence.

Furthermore, slaughterers have complained to Ulama of the KZN Jamiat years before we came on board this rotten carrion chicken saga. But those Ulama contained the information within their ranks. They did not adopt our methodology of

32

Monkey, donkey, hedgehog, wild rats, reptiles, lizards, hyena, fox, squirrel, worms, non-poisonous snakes, insects and many other kinds of animals haraam for us are all halaal for Maalikis. Does it mean that because Maalikis are Muslims following a Math-hab of Haqq, we are allowed to freely eat in their homes when we know that the norm among them is to consume all such forms of meat which are haraam for us? Perhaps the miscreant molvi has tasted rat and snake meat, hence he cannot find any objection to haraam carrion chickens.

And what is the position when it is known that Shaafis, especially in poor countries, consume weasel meat, hedgehog, hyena, lizard, fox, etc., etc.? Shall we Hanafis simply eat any meat in their homes merely because they are Muslims? Similarly, when it is an established fact that the entire community is addicted to haraam carrion chicken, then it is haraam for those who believe these chickens to be carrion to eat the chicken-food served in these homes.

As for the deviate molvi’s private principle, he may continue corrupting his heart and deranging his brains with haraam diseased, rotten carrion chickens. His private principle of advertised ‘taqwa’ is laughable and it speaks volumes for his

hubb-e-jah.

(17) Reverting to the liar’s ‘bribery’ slander, he states: “Slaughterers are not paid very well, so they can be bribed. They will sing your tune if they know there is something in it for them. This too, has happened recently. Certain slaughterers were promised aid for themselves and their families, so they started attacking the system.”

5

so brazen as today’s SANHA’s molvis who speak blatant lies without having the slightest Khauf-e-Ilaahi in their hearts. They maintained silence, but continued to certify the haraam carrion chickens.

In 2002, the Jamiatul Ulama KZN who at that time was still a member of SANHA, made more than one inspection of Rainbow chickens. They too established that the chickens were haraam. Maulana Moosa Olgar informed SANHA in unambiguous terms that the chickens were haraam. Even Mufti Ibrahim Desai of Camperdown did so. However, the Jamiat KZN committed an unforgivable act by maintaining silence and not informing the Muslim public, and knowingly allowing the community to consume chickens which they believed were haraam.

Nevertheless, the Natal Jamiat persisted internally to raise the issue. Then at a meeting between the KZN Jamiat and the NNB Jamiat in the Jamaat Khaanah at the Johannesburg airport, this matter was discussed. It was clearly mentioned that Maulana Olgar had branded the chickens haraam. A decision was taken to immediately conduct further inspections of Rainbow. But nothing was done. The matter was swept under the carpet by SANHA and the NNB Jamiat while the KZN Jamiat was simmering. And, this ultimately led to the Jamiat KZN resigning from SANHA. The ostensible reason for the resignation was SANHA’s support for the Sunday Times.

A Mufti/Maulana of the NNB Jamiat who was present at the airport meeting, sent me a copy of the minutes of this particular meeting. His conscience could not tolerate the cover- up. But at the same time he lacked the courage to make a

6

public announcement to save Muslims from consuming carrion.

In 2002, SANHA who was engaging in a controversy with the MJC, inspected ten MJC certified plants and prepared a 233 page document highlighting all the haraam irregularities prevailing at the plant. The haraam irregularities were so intense and corrupt that Maulana Yunus Patel of the then Jamiatul Ulama KZN and a staunch supporter of SANHA to this day, commented:

“Wallaah! My stomach churned and my heart seemed to skip a beat when I read the comprehensive report submitted by SANHA.”

Among the haraam irregularities submitted to Maulana Patel by SANHA were the following:

* Well-documented evidence was presented of severing just one vein rendering the chicken totally haraam according to all mazhabs. * Confirmed slaughtering by non-Muslims * Non-Muslim inspector and staff. I am enclosing herewith a copy of Maulana Y.Patel’s letter for your perusal and evaluation.

I must add that Maulana Yunus Saheb had at that time made public his revulsion against MJC to support SANHA. He did not do so for proclaiming the Haqq. SANHA and MJC were having a protracted and an intense fight, hence Maulana Patel came out in support of SANHA. He blindly accepted

31

when eating at their homes. But in a scenario where it is known with absolute certainty that 99% of Muslims devour Rainbow and Earlybird carrion chickens, then it is HARAAM to eat at their homes.

Hadhrat Maulana Ashraf Ali Thaanvi (rahmatullah alayh) has emphatically stated that in this era the principle is no longer, Al-Aslu fil ash-yaa al-ibaahah. On the contrary, the governing principle in this age is Al-Aslul fil ash-yaa al-hurmah. That is, the rule nowadays is no longer one of general permissibility. Rather it is one of prohibition until permissibility has been clearly established. When I read this fatwa of Hadhrat Hakimul Ummah some time ago, I was under the impression that Hadhrat Thaanvi (rahmatullah alayh) was the first to propound this ‘new’ rule. However, recently I read somewhere that other Fuqaha had adopted this same principle centuries before Hadhrat Thaanvi (rahmatullah alayh). Right now I cannot recall the reference. Insha’Allah, I shall stumble on the reference again.

And, what is the verdict when visiting North and West Africa where Maalikis predominate and generally consume a variety of animals which are all haraam for Hanafis? Does it mean that if a Maaliki friend invites a Hanafi, the latter should simply eat the meat the Maaliki serves? Perhaps the Yahudi ‘molvi’ is unaware of the following formidable list of permissible meat for Maalikis: eagle, vulture, falcon, hawk and all this kind of birds of prey. In West Africa it is said that the cooked hawk meat is ‘extremely delicious’. We are sure that the Yahudi ‘molvi’ who halaalizes rotten, diseased carrion chickens will be in position to endorse this claim of extremely delicious hawk and vulture meat.

30

THIS ANIMAL”, yet the miscreant ‘molvi says that you “can consider it to be haraam”. !!!

Secondly, all the slaughterers are claiming precisely what the molvi has spat out. They all point to all the carrion chickens and proclaim: “We did not recite Tasmiyah on all these thousands and hundreds of thousands and millions of chickens which we have slaughtered and which we are slaughtering”.

(16) The molvi who has joined the league of evil molvis, continuing with his rubbish observations, says in his letter: “As far as eating at other Muslims’ homes, one does not need to ask where they obtain their meat and chicken from. It is clearly written in the books of Fiqah that when invited by a Muslim, one does not need to query the halaal status of his or her food. And this is my principle when eating at other Muslims’ homes.”

This molvi with blinded soul knows extremely little of ‘Fiqah’ books. He only understands the ‘fiqah’ of his nafs. If it is known that Muslims in general are consuming pork, rats, lizards, snakes, donkeys, etc., will such Muslims who understand that they are Muslims ever eat at such homes? We can understand when a molvi devours carrion, but it is never expected of a true Muslim to answer an invitation or to eat food at a Muslim’s home when it is known that the norm is for the overwhelming majority of Muslims to eat carrion and all sorts of haraam animals.

When the condition of Muslims as a whole is Islamic, and they are aware of what they are expected to do as Muslims, and what they can eat and what they can’t eat, then in such a healthy Deeni environment, one does not generally question

7

SANHA’s report to be the gospel truth. Yet when 25 years before SANHA’s report I informed them and the whole country of the haraam chickens certified by MJC after my personal inspection, Maulana Patel and the whole lot of miserable men who sold their souls for the dunya, continued to devour MJC chickens and not one of them was prepared to stand up for the Haqq. Maulana Patel mentions in his letter that he used to eat MJC certified products.

Now when we have exposed SANHA committing the very same haraam corrupt irregularities which render the chickens “totally haraam in all mazhabs”, Maulana Yunus Patel has taken refuge in a fortress of ambiguities, silence and gheebat criticism of us.

Last year (2008), another halaal certifying body NIHT who competes with SANHA, made an inspection of the SANHA- certified Anca Chicken plant in Stutterheim near to East London. You may have seen our pamphlet in this regard about two weeks ago. Just in case you have not, I shall briefly outline the Anca Chicken Sanha-corruption.

The NIHT is a modernist/bid’ati, anti-Majlis body. The NIHT’s inspection established that 87% of the chickens were haraam. Of the 30 chickens they examined 26 were cut improperly – some with one neck vessel cut, some with two partly cut and so on. They removed some chickens from the conveyor belt and found that they were dead – killed by the stunning. In a two page Inspection Report, the NIHT enumerated all the corruptions which rendered the chickens haraam.

An interesting and very surprising fact established by the ANCA chicken plant inspection is that at the time when the

8

inspection was done the line speed was only 16 chickens per minute. The experienced slaughterer had to cut only 16 chickens in a minute. Despite this relatively ’slow’ speed, 87% of the chickens were haraam. What can you now understand if the speed is 140 or 150 or 180 chickens per minute? That is between 40 to 60 chickens per minute per slaughterer.

When NIHT sent its report to SANHA, the reaction of SANHA was quite interesting to say the least. SANHA, without responding to NIHT, made a quick and sudden inspection of one of NIHT’s certified plant, and as true as the existence of Iblees, SANHA found similar irregularities at the NIHT certified haraam plant. SANHA promptly notified NIHT. The result? Both decided to sweep each other’s haraam stinking najaasat under the carpet. The one was able to blackmail the other, hence they decided on silence and concealing the rot of the enemy. At this stage I have no documentary proof for this black-mailing act. Nevertheless I was apprized of this evil development by an uprighteous Mufti Saheb. But for all the other evils and malpractices of SANHA mentioned above and which I shall mentioned hereafter, I have documentary evidence.

It is well documented in the minutes of a meeting that SANHA had declared that it had investigated 10 MJC certified plants and had discovered gross irregularities which rendered the chickens “totally haraam” according to Maulana Yunus Patel and SANHA. But these miserable betrayers of Islam and the Ummah have concealed that 233 page report and have not notified the community of the status of MJC chickens. And how is it possible for SANHA to proclaim the Haqq about MJC haraam chickens when SANHA has approved MJC certified Earlybird chickens? It is a massive, dirty, filthy

29

chickens are mixed up with the other supposedly ‘halaal’ chickens.

Secondly, this miserable character who pretends to be a man of learning, conveniently and deceptively ignores the claim of his adversaries who say that ALL the slaughterers are saying under oath that they do not recite Tasmiyah, they can’t recite Tasmiyah on all the birds, hence they have adopted a defeatist attitude which has constrained them to refrain from making a mockery of Allah’s Name. They simply abstain from Tasmiyah. When all the slaughterers are speaking with one tongue – all the slaughterers of Rainbow and Earlybird – then by what stretch of logic and honesty could it still be argued that the carrion chickens are ‘halaal’? It is precisely for this reason that several slaughterers at Rainbow said that they do not eat Rainbow chickens notwithstanding the fact that they themselves are doing the slaughtering.

It is not an isolated chap who says that he does not recite Tasmiyah. The whole lot of them are making this claim.

(15) Then the deviated molvi says: “According to Shariah, if a person points to an animal and says that I slaughtered it without tasmiyah, then one can accept his word and consider that particular animal as haraam.” Firstly, the miserable molvi speaks plain rubbish. If a person says that “I did not recite Tasmiyah on ‘this animal”, then the issue of ‘can and consider’ does not feature. The animal is quite simply ‘maitah’ and haraam. Only a jaahil like this lost soul sees scope in regarding this openly haraam carrion to be ‘halaal’. What utter rubbish he gorges out!!! The slaughterer himself says that “I DID NOT RECITE TASMIYAH ON

28

At the same time they criminally deny this fact. I do not know if the Christian has been changed subsequent to our pamphlet on this issue.

(14) The miserable molvi who has lost his Imaani bearings, writes in his letter the following drivel: “However, if he (i.e. the slaughterer)makes a general and vague statement, such as ‘I don’t read tasmiyah when I slaughter’, etc. then we will not declare any specific animal haraam, especially when we are not sure which animal he had specifically slaughtered and the fact that there are other Muslim slaughterers doing the same job.”

This poor fellow argues typically like the ‘molvis’ of the Yahood and Nasaara who were experts in the art of treacherously compromising the Deen for worldly and nafsaani motives.

If a man says that he does not recite Tasmiyah when he slaughters, then it shall be accepted that in fact he does not recite Tasmiyah, and all the animals he slaughters will be declared haraam. In the context of the carrion chicken-killing facilities, even if we assume that only one slaughterer made this declaration, then at least the 20,000 chickens which he had slaughtered for the day are haraam carrion. In which way will these 20,000 haraam carrion chickens be differentiated from the other supposedly ‘halaal’ chickens? Any Muslim whose brain and heart have not become corrupted and deranged with carrion consumption and who have not adopted the profession of halaalizing almost every haraam act, not only carrion, will undoubtedly never believe that it could ever be permissible to devour any of the chickens when in one week 100,000 carrion

9

haraam money racket which condones the promotion of carrion-consumption.

On 25 May 2009, Molvi Navlakhi and another two SANHA molvis went to the Earlybird plant in Olifantsfontein. They gathered the 12 slaughterers and tried to persuade them to sign affidavits stating:

? That the four Ulama inspection team which Jamiatul Ulama Gauteng claimed had inspected Earlybird on 2nd April, had not visited the plant and that this claim was a blatant lie.

? That not a single slaughterer had ever spoken to the Ulama of Jamiatul Ulama Gauteng as the Jamiat was claiming.

Alhamdulillah, by Allah’s fadhl, all the slaughterers refused to sign the criminally false affidavit. In fact one slaughterer stood up to assault Molvi Navlakhi but was restrained by the others. We have signed affidavits in which the slaughterers declare this haraam attempt of Maulana Navlakhi to besmirch the name and to slander the Ulama of Jamiatul Ulama Gauteng, in his plot to sustain his carrion industry.

Now in the backdrop of this vile scenario, shall I proceed to respond to the allegations in the article you have sent.

(1) I shall bypass the writer’s background comments because, firstly, they are not factual and have no bearing on the facts which are our grounds for criticizing Sanha, and secondly, because the writer does not know what he speaks in his background comment. It is therefore futile to respond on a diversionary tactic of the writer. 10

(2) Zaahid’s Lament: Zaahid’s registered name is Eric. A copy of his affidavit is enclosed herewith. He lists the irregularities. The two fundamental irregularities stated by the two slaughterers in the affidavit are: (i) Mass omission of Tasmiyah (ii) Due to line speed, the necks are improperly cut rendering the chickens “totally haraam” in Maulana Patel’s words when SANHA pointed out the very same irregularity in relation to SANHA’s enemy, the MJC. There is one very important irregularity which Zaahid has failed to record in his affidavit. This irregularity escaped him at the time of preparing the affidavit. The third fundamental irregularity is the fact that Earlybird’s management has been persistently applying pressure on the slaughterers to refrain from cutting all four neck vessels. SANHA and MJC are well aware of this fact, and we have documentary evidence to prove it.

On 16 March 2007, Molvi Ismail Khan, the supervisor at Earlybird, wrote to Imam Harris of the MJC: “It’s been an ongoing problem with management since the inception of the Halaal operation approximately 20 years (both plants). The issue of loss of heads due to manual slaughter – we have the Shariah to adhere to and cannot accommodate the company by slaughtering in such a manner by not severing the required veins so the heads can be intact after the plucking of feathers. It’s either the Halaal intact or the heads. We do try our utmost to slaughter in a manner that is Shar’ee compliant and the company can capture maximum heads.”

27

3. Then we also have your value-added Plant which is not certified. We are not aware of the ingredients used and who is in charge of the production. 4. As previously stated, our supervisors for whom we have great respect and trust, have also become very unhappy in that there is no communication with them. Therefore we sincerely hope that you can realise the seriousness of the situation and attend to it immediately.”

From this letter you will realize the extent of the complaints, grievances and corruption. You will now understand why Doba and Khan had resigned. You will also note the lies SANHA had all along been peddling regarding the resignations, and the other issues. You will also note that despite the MJC and SANHA having absolutely no control and supervision of the ‘value-added’ plant where they inject the pork-beef waste substance into the meat, they continue certifying the chickens. On their own admission they are not aware of the ingredients nor of any supervision, etc. Will it now not be jaaiz to put all of these treacherous sellers of the Deen in front of a firing squad and eliminate them, or bury the whole miserable lot alive, covering them up with stones and thorns, not sand!!!!

(13) In Maulana Yunus Patel’s letter you will observe that SANHA had reported that the MJC certified plants even had non-Muslim supervisors in charge of ‘halaal’ operations. A few weeks ago when Yunus, the acting Muslim supervisor at Earlybird resigned because of the malpractices, Earlybird promptly appointed a Christian, Mr.Noah, to be the supervisor. While SANHA and Maulana Yunus Patel had crowed much when the MJC certified plants had non-Muslim supervisors, they accept Earlybird’s appointment of a Christian supervisor. 26

community. Insha’Allah, these letters will be published verbatim so that the Muslim community may understand what filth they had been fed by SANHA under guise of the najaasat being halaal. For your better understanding, I reproduce here just one letter written by the MJC in response to all the complaints made by the supervisor, Molvi Ismail Khan. The letter is addressed to Earlybird management, and is dated 30 May 2007. Imaam Harris of the MJC wrote:

“Respected Mr.John MacKay,

Re: Slaughtering Operations at Olifantsfontein/Standerton

Further to our meeting in Cape Town on 16th March 2007 when we raised certain concerns about your slaughtering operations.

Thus far, we have had no responses from you with regard to our grievances. As indicated to you, our supervisors at both Plants are very unhappy and have threatened to resign because of various factors, viz.

1. Interference in the manner of slaughtering and loosing of heads. May we respectfully remind you that the method of slaughtering has to be in terms of Islamic laws. Any changes to the slaughtering methods, might create Haraam and not Halaal birds. This will seriously affect your sales. May we also remind you that the Standerton Plant was formerly certified by SANHA. When we took over the certification, we took over all the structures and personnel of SANHA. By bringing about new changes, might also bring on to you unnecessary and adverse propaganda. 2. The same goes for trying to decrease the amount of Slaughterers at both Plants. This is not acceptable and we are not going to compromise on standards. The issue of County Fair is a different matter and must never be compared with Early Bird. Over the years, we have also had numerous problems with County Fair over their Slaughtering teams and have occasionally informed them of our dissatisfaction. But we will deal with County Fair at some other time. 11

While the slaughterers were perhaps “trying their utmost to slaughter in a manner that is Shar’ee compliant”, this has not been possible.

In a letter dated 16 May 2007, the supervisor, Molvi I.Khan, wrote to SANHA:

“Another issue which they are putting a lot of pressure on us is the loss of heads due to the halaal method of slaughter……Make dua we have closure to this ongoing battle of labour standards and loss of heads.”

Let me explain the story of the ‘heads loss’ as this has a direct bearing on the improper and haraam neck-cutting which leaves the veins uncut. When all four neck-vessels are severed, the head dangles very loosely. In the de-feathering machine, the heads come off and are lost in the drain. This is a huge monetary loss for Earlybird where the production at its two plants is more than half a million chickens daily. This equates to 120 million heads a year worth more than R50 million. Hence, management has persistently over the years pressurized slaughterers to make superficial incisions and not cut the four neck-vessels. Molvi Khan’s letters bear ample testimony to this fact. We thus find slaughterers due to this pressure making slight nips/cuts which leave the four arteries uncut or partially cut or some uncut.

(3) The writer of the article is either too naïve and slow in mental grasp to grasp the implications of the line speed or he has deliberately misled you in his endeavour to support SANHA. There is no doubt regarding the line speed. It is only SANHA and its cronies who are trying to confuse people with blatant lies in this regard. Bear in mind the following facts: 12

(a) The first person who had initiated the Earlybird controversy which began last year was Molvi A.S.Doba, the supervisor at Earlybird. Molvi Doba in a telephonic discussion with his wife’s relative informed that he had resigned because Earlybird was demanding 48 birds per minute per slaughterer. Since this was excessive, he had objected. Besides this, there were other irregularities as well, which I shall explain further on. Since Molvi Doba’s discussion had been taped, he has simply gone off the radar screen. He has not come out in support of SANHA nor has he denied what he had said. The denial is only from Molvi I.Khan who also was a supervisor at Earlybird. Molvi Khan felt reasonably snug to deny because he knew that he was not taped when he spilled the beans to others in Standerton. Molvi Abdullah who operates a small madrasah in Standerton informed attorney Zehir Omar of the reasons for the resignations. However, Molvi I.Khan who hitherto has been unaware that we have copies of his letters in our possession has been in denial of the truth and has falsely claimed that the reasons for his resignation were ‘personal’. I shall revert to Molvi Khan soon, Insha’Allah.

(b) I had personally inspected several plants over the years and had established the line speed to be 180 birds per minute. (c) At the SANHA pre-arranged inspection of Rainbow last year when 14 Sanha-handpicked Molvis participated, Mufti Afzal Husain Elias in his report mentioned that the line speed was 150 per minute. He further mentioned in his written report which no one to this day has refuted, that Rainbow claimed that they are allowed 50 birds per minute per slaughterer. 45 is the norm, but they (Rainbow) function at 35 per minute. This last claim of Rainbow is a lie as more than a dozen slaughterers in their affidavits maintain. In fact, Rainbow in 25

(11) The evidence is overwhelming to substantiate that Tasmiyah is NOT being recited and that the neck-vessels are not cut according to the requisites of the Shariah. The possibility of doubt is totally precluded. Ask Maulana Yunus Patel Sahib who had based his “totally haraam according to all Mazhabs,” fatwa solely on the basis of SANHA’s inspection and claim that Tasmiyah was not being recited and that the necks were not being properly cut. What is sauce for the goose…..applies to Maulana Patel and SANHA as well. They should bury themselves with shame for this duplicity, double standards and using the Deen for nafsaani and worldly motives. MJC chickens are haraam according to SANHA and Maulana Patel when it suits their nafsaani agenda. But when the very same irregularities prevail at SANHA certified plants, then the chickens are halaal and tayyib!!! (12) It will be appropriate at this juncture to mention the reasons why Molvi A.S.Doba and Molvi Ismail Khan, the two Earlybird supervisors had resigned. When The Majlis had published the resignation and the 48 bird per minute demand of Earlybird, SANHA vehemently refuted this. SANHA and Molvi I.Khan alleged that the resignations were for personal reasons. As mentioned above, Molvi Doba neither confirmed what The Majlis said nor refuted it. He simply disappeared from the scene and went into strict purdah, and to this day his hijaab is impregnable. While SANHA had repeatedly alleged that there NEVER were any problems or complaints regarding the slaughtering process at the haraam carrion chicken plants, several letters of Molvi Ismail Khan, SANHA and MJC, in our possession , unequivocally confirm the very serious irregularities which SANHA has vainly endeavoured to conceal from the Muslim

24 13

of “bribery”, no more the slander of us speaking ‘lies’ about having affidavits.

The slaughterers have gained one thing from this saga: nine slaughterers have been fired and are currently without work. Why did they have to lose their jobs with ‘lies’? Navlakhi sits snug, getting tens of thousands of rands of riba money to feed himself and his family. SANHA nets millions of rands for the pockets of its officials and directors while these poor slaughters earning about R3000 a month are sitting without jobs. They were fully aware that their jobs were on the line when they made the exposure.

We are making known the affidavits of the dismissed slaughterers only. We have multiple affidavits of current slaughterers who are still working at Earlybird. But at this stage we shall not divulge their names because they too will be fired.

(10) “The system is totally conducive to halaal rendering of poultry”. Perhaps the writer has lost all his Imaan or perhaps he was born without Aql. In making this statement he implies that the Islamic system is redundant and inferior to the kuffaar system of brutality which Hadhrat Thanvi (rahmatullah alayh) described “akin to kufr”. How on earth and how in Hell can this kaafir brutal system of torture and haraam ever be “conducive to halaal slaughtering” when the process is haraam from A to Z, from even before the chickens are brought to the killing facilities? Everything is haraam in the kaafir system. The writer’s mind is clearly deranged with the carrion corruption hence he is capable of such a corrupt claim. Cape Town where I personally had done the inspection has a speed of 180 per minute, and this is the same at County Fair which belongs to the same company running Earlybird.

Even if the line speed is 135, the claim that four slaughterers do the killing is false. On 2nd April when the Ulama of Jamiatul Ulama Gauteng made their inspection, three slaughterers were on the line and when they took a count, it transpired 44.6 chickens per minute. And even if the line speed is 120 per minute, then with three slaughterers it means 40 per minute. This fact is confirmed by Molvi I.Khan, himself. In a letter dated 16 March 2007 to Imaam Harris of the MJC, Molvi Khan wrote:

“Currently there is an increase in production. We have a slaughter/bird ratio maximum which is at 40 birds per minute. With the increase in production, we are on maximum, i.e. 40 birds per minute per slaughterer. Any further increase in production which is planned for the near future should warrant additional slaughterers. Please negotiate for both plants as the excess workload is also becoming a major problem. We should stand our ground by putting pressure on Earlybird to adhere to our Shar’ee requirements fully.”

In Molvi Khan’s opinion the maximum is 40 per minute. However, when Earlybird insisted on 48 birds per minute, he and Molvi Doba threw in the towel and resigned. It was too much for even these two ’stalwart’ supervisors whose hearts had been hardened by years of carrion halaalizing. With 40 per minute they somehow succeeded in deceiving themselves. But with 48 per minute, it was beyond their power of deception to perpetrate self-deception.

14

Production has increased while the number of slaughterers has not increased. On the contrary, Earlybird wants to reduce the number of slaughterer, hence in a letter dated 28 March 2007 Earlybird wrote to the supervisor, Molvi Ismail Khan:

“During the bench making between County Fair and Earlybird Standerton, it came out that we have 13 slaughterers per shift. County Fair has 13 slaughterers in total for both shifts. We need to discuss this urgently.”

In a letter dated 17 May 2007, Molvi Ismail Khan wrote to SANHA as follows: “Unfortunately the MJC is allowing the County Fair operation which has about the same production as us to operate with half the amount of slaughterers. We have addressed the issue to Imaam Yaseen who acknowledged that the County Fair operation has insufficient slaughterers.”

This is indeed an interesting revelation of massive corruption which SANHA has swept under the carpet. Molvi Khan has emphatically declared that County Fair has the same production as Earlybird, which is achieved with half the number of slaughterers. It follows that at County Fair the speed is 80 birds per minute per slaughterer since it is 40 per minute at Early bird with double the number of slaughterers.

The supervisor’s letters to SANHA and MJC are full of complaints and grievances. But over the years SANHA has persistently alleged that everything is in fine order, there being no irregularities, no complaints, no grievances, and that every carrion chicken was halaal tayyib.

Furthermore, if there are four slaughterers, then according to SANHA’s recommended speed of 37 per minute, it means the line speed is 148 per minute. Referring to the system,

23

slaughterers had come forward and said that they do not recite Tasmiyah, it would have been sufficient to alert the Muslim community and to proclaim the chickens haraam. When the persons who slaughter the chickens say that they are unable to fulfil the obligation of Tasmiyah and that they do not recite Tasmiyah, then only one drunk with the riba money of the carrion chicken plants will persist stupidly and intransigently to claim that the carrion is halaal.

(9) “Why did the slaughterers make the statements….” In his desperate endeavour to defend Sanha, the writer mentions four absolutely spurious, baseless, false and slanderous suppositions. He theorizes baselessly in his bid to refute and negate the declarations made by the slaughterers. Can he take the Qur’aan and take an oath in Allah’s Name that the slaughterers were ‘bribed’ to make the statements which damn SANHA and which have exposed the haraam corruption of SANHA? Can the writer come forward to take the oath? We challenge him. As for the inspectors, they are more than willing to take the oath in Allah’s Name to prove that the claim of Navlakhi and the writer is nothing but pure unadulterated buhtaan. You are an intelligent student of Deen and becoming a Mufti. Why do you not ask the writer to produce his evidence for such a slanderous allegation? Why don’t you test his honesty or his falsehood by telling him to take an oath in Allah’s Name that the slaughterers were bribed to make the statements?

At first the claim of Navlakhi was a vehement denial of any inspection having taken place and a denial of the existence of affidavits. When the truth dawned on him, then he switched his tactic from one slander to another slander. Now it is the slander

22

prevailed on Maulana Haroon to accompany him for the inspection. Allah Ta’ala operates in wonderful ways unexpected and unfathomable to us. He exposes the treacherous ones.

(8) The writer alleges: “Yet, instead of conveying to the public irregularities that they were supposed to have witnessed with their own eyes, they rather relied on the statement of a slaughterer who they chose to interview.” If you had taken the trouble to read carefully the Earlybird inspection report booklet and some other subsequent pamphlets, then there would not have been a need for me to devote so much time writing this letter. But it appears that you did not read the report intelligently and with a probing mind, hence this burden of responding to blatantly false allegations by the Sanha writer.

The report clearly conveys to the public haraam irregularities which the four inspectors witnessed with their own eyes. The writer lies shamelessly by claiming that they ‘relied on a statement of a slaughterer who they chose to interview”. The ingredients of the inspection which has been fully published are:

? The inspectors witnessed with their own eyes and

reported accordingly.

? The inspectors spoke to twelve slaughterers, not to

one.

? There was no ‘choosing’. The inspectors had never met

these slaughterers before. Wallaah! The slaughterers

opened up their stories before the inspectors had even

asked them anything. Furthermore, let us assume that there was no inspection by the four Ulama and that they had not even set foot inside Earlybird as Navlakhi had initially claimed, then too, if a few

15

Molvi Ismail Khan, the supervisor wrote to Earlybird’s management on 11 July 2006:

“Since the merger of E.B.F. (Earlybird Farms) and Festive Farms approximately 13 years ago we have been in constant negotiations with management in regards to the labour standards which we are totally not satisfied with…….In the interim production has increased gradually, making our task much more difficult. Our request to management in 13 years is not unrealistic……….The current system is very strenuous and the Halaal standards could be violated. Due to this we do experience a high rate of absenteeism and sick leave.”

In fact ‘halaal standards’ were daily being violated so much that nothing but haraam carrion chickens were and are being produced.

(d) When a line speed of 16 per minute (ANCA) produces 87% haraam chickens, what shall we deduce from a line speed of 120, 135, 148, 150, and 180? “Reflect! O People of Intelligence!” – Qur’aan (e) All the slaughterers without a single exception at both Rainbow and Earlybird maintain that the line speed is excessive. They have been complaining about this factor for years – many many years. They had complained to SANHA, to Jamiat KZN, MJC and to inspectors, supervisors and managements of the plants for years. We have documentary evidence besides the affidavits to support this contention. Responding to this complaint, SANHA, in a letter dated 8 May 2001, addressed to Rehmat Khan, the Earlybird supervisor, wrote: “Per your request, we hereby confirm that the line speed of the chicken conveyor must at all times be in harmony with the

16

number of Muslim slaughterers engaged in slaughtering thus enabling them to comfortably utter the Tasmiyah and correctly carry out the ritual slaughter which in any event should not exceed thirty seven (37) birds per slaughterer per minute.”

That SANHA was receiving constant complaints and grievances, is undeniable. All the letters in our possession prove this irrefutable fact.

(f) Long before we came aboard this haraam chicken saga, reputable non-Muslim animals’ rights organization had published the line speed of chicken plants in Cape Town, U.K. and U.S.A. The claim has always been 180 per minute, and this has never been refuted. (g) Recently – a couple of months ago – when the non-Muslim organization, Compassion in Animal Farming, made an inspection of a MJC-certified plant in Cape Town and had threatened to go to court on account of the brutality practised, I wrote to the concerned plant and asked them to either confirm or deny that their line speed was 180 and more. They refused to commit themselves and referred us to the MJC. (h) The speed is such that even automatic slaughtering machines in plants where there is no manual killing, also miss chickens which then go alive straight into the boiling water. This is confirmed by reputable non-Muslim researchers, investigators and organizations who did not probe halaal issues. Slaughterers too say that this happens. Chickens slip by and enter the scalder without having been slaughtered. If the brains are not clouded with money issues, then all of this is extremely simple and logical to understand even without making any inspection. 21

(6) “Even the four inspectors from De Deur who visited the Earlybird plant did not comment on the tasmiyah or any major irregularity.” This is a brazen and a shameless lie peddled by the writer. Please read the report book issued by the four inspectors. They clearly and emphatically state the two abovementioned fundamental irregularities which render the chickens “totally haraam according to all Mazhabs”. Now when the writer descends to such a gutter level of lies, what do you expect me to comment on his integrity?

(7) The writer alleges: “They went there with the express intention of witnessing these discrepancies and declaring the chickens haraam.” Did this writer climb into the hearts of the four inspectors to enable him to testify that what he is alleging was in fact their niyyat? Can the writer come forward, hold the Qur’aan Majeed in his hand and take an oath in Allah’s Name that his allegation is the truth and correct? We challenge him to step forward if he has any respect for the Haqq or if he believes that he is a Muslim. All four inspectors are more than willing to take an oath in Allah’s Name that this was NEVER NEVER their intention. They were in fact ‘dragged’ to make the inspection. Earlybird was no where in their mind nor in my mind, and Wallaah! They never consulted with me prior to the inspection nor did I feature anywhere in the inspection nor did I ever suggest that an inspection be made, Wallaah, and again Wallaah, and I say Wallaah that the writer is a confounded LIAR.

Hafez Anwar Sujee is not from De Deur. He is from Laudium. He and his brother intended starting a franchise chicken business. He had first gone to Earlybird alone. Then he

20

The abovementioned comment confirms what Hadhrat Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi (rahmatullah alayh) wrote in his fatwa about 70 years ago that electrical stunning while paralyzing the animal does not render it unconscious. Alhamdulillah, the roohaani idraak of Hadhrat Thanvi was remarkable. While scientists have established this fact with their scientific tests, Hadhrat Thaanvi (rahmatullah alayh) established this reality decades before the scientists discovered it.

There is much evidence from independent non-Muslim experts unconnected with ‘halaal-slaughtering’ to prove that neck- cutting is haphazard and in the majority of cases the veins are just nipped and the main carotid arteries (Wajjain) are left intact.

Mufti Shuayb Rawat who was one of the four who inspected Earlybird, states: “I saw plenty of chickens with just nips in their necks.”

I advise you to read with an open mind the Inspection team’s booklet, EARLYBIRD CHICKENS – SANHA’S HARAAM CORRUPTION EXPOSED!

Both Muslims and non-Muslim experts confirm that neck- cutting is haphazard by both machine and manual slaughtering.

From the discussion so far, you will realize that besides the entire system being haraam and evil, the two fundamental factors which render the chickens “totally haraam according to all Mazhabs” are the mass omission of Tasmiyah and the haphazard neck-cutting which leaves the neck-vessels uncut.

17

In a bulletin issued by United Poultry Concerns of U.S.A., the following appears: “In 1993, of the 7 billion birds slaughtered in U.S. facilities, over 3 million birds were plunged into the scald tanks alive. According to a former slaughterhouse worker, when chickens are scalded alive, they “flop, scream, kick, and their eyeballs pop out of their heads. They often come out of the other end with broken bones and disfigured and missing body parts because they’ve struggled so much in the tank.”

Is all this cruelty “conducive with halaal slaughtering”, as Navlakhi claims?

(4) “Cutting every fourth chicken”: This is a subtle attempt to deceive unwary people who do not understand what happens inside the killing facilities. The writer attempts to mislead with this statement by creating the impression that after one chicken is slaughtered, there is a pause which allows the slaughterer time to wait for the arrival of the third or fourth chicken, then he begins the cutting, then he again waits for the third or fourth chicken and so on. This impression is absolutely false and grossly misleading. Consider the speed and the positioning of the chickens on the belt. The line moves at a speed of between 135 to 180 birds per minute. This means that in one minute this amount of birds whiz pass each slaughterer. Almost the very second he cuts his chicken, the third or fourth one is on top of him because the other two/three have already passed him, and he has to mechanically continue cutting without the slightest pause. There is no waiting period of a few seconds before the third or fourth unfortunate chicken arrives to be killed. I say killed, because no thabah takes place.

18

Even if the slaughterer cuts every fourth or every tenth bird, the irrefutable fact remains that he cuts 37 per minute according to Navlakhi and according to us and the slaughterers it varies from 45 to 60. At Navlakhi’s speed it means just a bit more than one and a half second per chicken and at other speeds one second per chicken. Now just imagine a slaughterer having to continuously cut for an hour chickens whizzing pass him at this tremendous speed. His hand has to move rapidly to ensure a semblance of slaughter is effected on the chickens whizzing by. It is precisely for this reason that all the slaughterers are compelled to practice what Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) described as Shareetatush Shaitaan. The veins are left uncut, or some uncut, or partly cut and the chicken is left to die an agonizing death. It is for this very reason that 87% of the chickens were Haraam at Anca chickens despite the line speed being only 16 per minute. And, it was precisely for this reason that Maulana Patel said that MJC certified chickens were “totally haraam”. SANHA’s molvis themselves had established at ten MJC certified plants that the necks of the chickens were improperly cut to render the chickens “totally haraam”, and which caused Maulana Patel’s stomach to churn and his heart to miss a beat!!!

Remember that the claim that the slaughterer has “to wait” for the third or fourth bird is a blatant falsehood. There is absolutely not a split second of waiting after having cut one chicken. The closely packed chickens on the rapidly moving conveyor belt simply whiz pass continuously. Slaughterers become disoriented as a consequence of the absolutely bizarre scenario in these killing facilities. It is just upside down hanging chickens whizzing pass at great speed, nipping with the knife (no thabah), blood and blood squirting all day long. In this miserable scenario, the slaughterers say that it is

19

‘impossible’ to recite Tasmiyah — impossible to take Allah’s Name without a mockery. The killing is one continuous uninterrupted rapid cutting which exhausts the cutters physically, mentally and morally to the extent that the Tasmiyah becomes a huge mockery in the sadistic process of commercial killing and perpetration of cruelty and brutality.

(5) “Experienced slaughterers and sharp knives”: This is a deceptive argument. The line speed, the haraam upside down position of the chickens, the haraam killing in motion, etc. negate the expertise and the effect of even the ‘extremely sharp knife’. It is for these reasons that the experienced slaughterer at Anca plant, with his ‘extremely sharp knife’ was unable to cut the necks properly despite the line speed being only 16 per minute. 26 of the 30 chickens were “totally haraam” due to the grossly incorrect neck-cutting. Anyone who has inspected these plants with an open mind and with a desire to see the truth, would have seen the superficial movements of the hands of the men cutting. There is no force applied. It is simply a routine mechanical light movement of the hand which fails to cut the four neck-vessels. The United Poultry Concerns, a very reputable non-Muslim organization in America explaining the slaughtering, states:

“After being dragged through the “stun” bath, the paralyzed conscious birds have their necks partially sliced by a rotating machine blade and/or manual neck cutter. Although both carotid arteries must be quickly severed to ensure a rapid death, these arteries which carry the oxygenated blood responsible for consciousness to the brain, and which are deeply embedded in the bird’s neck, are often missed. So haphazard is neck-cutting that The Poultry Tribune refers to “hopefully hitting the jugular vein” of birds at slaughter.”

Imam A. Mou’tie Saban Head Social Welfare Department Muslim Judicial Council
021-696 9960 / 021-696 5153

MACDONALDS McDonald’s announced in the 1990’s that it changed its frying oil from animal fat to vegetable oil for those who are vegetarian. However, it turned out that this information did not turn out to be completely true French fries are fried slightly in animal fat then frozen and shipped to all the McDonald’s stores for the final frying The following information was announced on the Arabic BBC channel Basically, what they do is they cut the potatoes into slices and then coat them with a thin layer of lard (pig fat) or cow fat so that when it is fried it will crunch. Then these fries are shipped to McDonald’s stores in different parts of the world including India and the Arab countries. Mc Donald’s apologized to the Indians after receiving complaints, since a good number of Indians do not eat anything that has ingredients derived from animals. And of course no apology has been made to the Arab countries.

So in summary, Mc Donald’s fries is coated with a layer of either cow fat or lard (pig fat which is thicker and cheaper) then shipped to all Mc Donald’s stores over the world, which is then fried in vegetable fat.

Please alert all those you know of this information.

A formidable line up of ten international and local expert speakers will deliver presentations on highly relevant issues in the world of Halaal at Gallagher Estate on Monday 20/07/09. The conference fee, set at an affordable R1500 or US$150 is tailored for the industry, theologians, professionals, academicians, students, government agencies, importers and exporters and hosted concurrently with the Continent´s largest trade exhibition, Africa Big 7.

The topic and speakers are:

• Understanding Islamic Dietary Concept: Dr Mazhar Hoosaini from America, President American Halal Foundation & Author.

• The Middle East & The Obstacles on the road of Halaal services: Dr. Hani Mansour Al- Mazeedi of Kuwait, a scientist with 29 years experience in food safety and Halaal food services.

• Community Radio Stations – The Synergy Factor on the Protection, Presentation and Promotion of Halaal: Ml Sulaiman Rawat,South Africa.

• Islamic Finance & Halaal Products – The Convergence: Dr. Aznan Bin Hasan of Malaysia, Shariah advisor, Bank Negara, Malaysia, banking expert, professor & author.

• Poultry for the Rainbow Nation – A Case Study: By Mr. Kevin Lovell from South Africa, CEO of the South African Poultry Association.

• Franchising – A Holistic Approach for Future Business: by Famous Brands from South Africa.

• From Player to Prayer: Ml. M.S. Navlakhi, South Africa, Theological Director – SANHA & Executive Member – World Halal Council (WHC).

• OLA Milky Lanes Sweet Success: Mr. Craig MacKenzie, South Africa, Managing Director Retail Solutions South Africa.

• Science & Technology – Natural Allies to Halaal: Dr. Naushaad Emambux from South Africa, Lecturer at Department of Food Science University of Pretoria.

• Global Economic Crisis & the Wisdom of Shariah (Islamic Law): Mr. Ahmed Moola, South Africa, Managing Director of ABSA Islamic Banking

For bookings, http://www.sanha.org.za/ab7cover.php

Our Sponsors:
Platinum: ABSA Islamic Banking | Silver: Famous Brands (Steers, Debonairs, Wimpy)

The Muslim Judicial Council(MJC) hereby unequivocally states and confirms that all chickens slaughtered at MJC certified farms are halaal and suitable for Muslim consumption.

The MJC is a body of Ulema which has been involved with the halaal certification of foods for Muslim consumption for over 60 years and conducts its slaughtering procedures according to strict Islamic guidelines.  As a leading and experienced global halaal certifying Islamic organization, the MJC continues to be consulted by international Islamic organizations about halaal operations and procedures abroad.

We therefore take strong exception to baseless allegations by the unknown, newly established “Scholars of the Truth”, which is led by their counsel Zehir Omar, who made public appeals to South African Muslims to refrain from consuming chickens certified by MJC.

We also take exception to the fact that Zehir Omar who claims to be the spokesperson for the “Scholars of Truth” takes it upon himself to label all chickens haraam and thereby creating unnecessary confusion in this community.

We declare once again that all our halaal operations are conducted under the strictest halaal requirements.
End.

Moulana Ighsaan Hendricks:   President MJC
Cell: 0833846973

Moulana Abdul Khaliq Allie:  Secretary General MJC
Cell : 083408 1071

This email was sent to the various Ulama councils and others involved.

The incessant and vicious bombardment to the public on the halaal status of chickens refers.

The objective that you wished to achieve has been achieved. The Muslim public has been made fully aware of your opinion on chickens slaughtered on certain plants.

As a concerned Muslim, I wish to bring to your notice that we have become laughing stock amongst the non – Muslims. No other event in the history of this country has sowed so much of discord and disunity amongst the Muslims. Do I now question my sister as to were she bought her chicken from when she invites me for lunch? Do I show  distrust  towards or question her imaan?

The point has been made as it has in the past with various other products. Why the continuity? We Muslims have been having our discussions on these issues and from my understanding, the general consensus is that there is an ulterior motive to this mockery of Muslims. No amount of denials and word bashing will erase that reality. Our intelligence should not be insulted.

Less you begin categorising me, I belong to and affiliated to no organisation. I am not even aware of who the office bearers are of SANHA, MJC , IGCMSA, SAMU or The Majlis.  I am just a confused Muslim as to how, if we Muslims can be so vicious and vindictive with each other, show the rest of the world that indeed Islam is the one true religion in which one can find total peace and harmony with this world and God. How can we teach others this when we do not portray it ourselves.

For those that profess the chickens to be haraam, you have done your duty towards Allah. You have informed the Muslim ummah of your fatwa on this issue. All have understood. Let us know continue with the true work of Islam. Let us desist from the mudslinging.

To SANHA, I say, please continue to maintain the silent approach you been using. Ignore the multitude of verbosity being directed at you less the Muslim public gets further embroiled in this issue and more discontent and disunity is sowed. when  the tabligh / sunni issue had surfaced, it evolved into violence amongst Muslims inside the Musjaids. Avoid this situation leading to violence between Muslims by maintaining silence on this issue.

We Muslims have a great deal of intelligence and while there are thousands  that follow like sheep without thinking, there are thousands more who utilise their intelligence.

For the sake of Islam, for the sake of peace, for ALLAH’S SAKE, let us end this issue now.

Assalaamu alaykum

Jazakallah for your email. I must apologise again for the delay. I also received the email containing an attachment titled “Zaahid’s lament”. Let me respond to that as well as the recent statements by slaughterers.

Before proceeding with my explanation, it is important to understand that the issue of halaal and haraam poultry is no longer confined to academic debate and divergence; instead the matter has unfortunately degenerated to a level of personal conflict and vendetta. The background to this conflict that has become very personal must be born in mind. Some of the parties concerned have openly declared that they will not rest until Sanha has been silenced, ‘destroyed’, and totally obliterated.

They have vowed combat to the bitter end. Obviously, a matter of Shar’ee difference is not handled in this manner and does not tolerate such animosity and acrimonious conflict. This type of hype and emotion undoubtedly clouds once judgment and fairness. When this is the under-current, you will understand that impartiality and objectivity have been jettisoned for the satisfaction of personal vendetta. It is therefore extremely difficult to differentiate between what is Shariah and what is the product of people’s quest for vengeance. This is precisely why the poultry issue has been pursued to unprecedented levels. No one but the Muslim Ruler has the right to force a view onto others.

ZAAHID’S LAMENT: If you read his statement carefully, you will notice that the man complains of irregularities at the plant, and he complains of ulema who don’t give him a hearing and are not co-operating in dealing with these irregularities. However, he does not clearly state what those
irregularities are. No where in his statement does he clearly state that the chickens slaughtered there are haraam or that dead chickens were processed and marketed as haraam, etc. On the contrary, one statement of his clearly indicates that the Sanha designed system is still in place. He mentions a line speed of 135 birds a minute, which he claims is too fast. However it must be remembered that there are four slaughterers on every line, and each slaughterer cuts every fourth chicken. In other words, as the birds come along the conveyor belt, the first slaughterer kills the first bird and then waits for three more to pass before he cuts the fifth bird. Likewise, slaughterer number 2 cuts the second bird and waits for three birds to pass and then slaughters the sixth bird. In this manner, each slaughter cuts one bird and waits for three to pass before cutting again. This gives them ample time to say Bismillah Allahu akbar. I have witnessed this myself.

Also note that these slaughterers are experienced, they have extremely sharp knives and the birds are hanging upside down with the necks facing the slaughterers. They don’t need to turn the birds, or hold them down, nor do they have to deal with birds that are squirming and kicking wildly, for the birds are stunned. All they are required to do is to run the knife across the throat of the animal. And they are quite deft at doing this.
That is why I maintain they have enough time to observe the tasmiyah. This also proves that a line speed of 135 or 140 a minute is comfortably managed by four men. This calculates to about 35 or 37 birds a minute per slaughterer. Again, these standards are acceptable in the halaal industry. People who haven’t been to the plants and have not seen how the slaughtering system runs will not fully understand this.

Even the four inspectors from De Deur who visitedthe Early Bird plant did not comment on the tasmiyah or any other major irregularity. Understand this well. They went there with the express intention of witnessing these discrepancies and declaring the chickens haraam. Yet, instead of conveying to the public irregularities that they were supposed to have witnessed with their own eyes, they rather relied on the statement of a
slaughterer who they chose to interview. Surely, this makes a strong statement on its own. It distinctly points to the fact that they, in spite of their strong anti-Sanha stance, and vehement, almost destructive opposition, had not seen anything untoward to suggest the birds slaughtered at that plant were haraam. (Hitherto I am not aware of any statement from them on major discrepancies that were physically witnessed)

The question arises as to why did the slaughterers make the statements that they had? Why are they speaking of irregularities, and why confess that they are not reading tasmiyah? The answer is based on past experience with such people.

1. Most of the slaughterers are either black Muslims, local or foreign, or born Muslims but from impoverished backgrounds. Some of them are disgruntled employees, who’ve had a run in with the company due to poor attendance and poor performance. Such men will quickly seize the opportunity to speak out against the system whenever they can. This was the case in the Rainbow issue in KZN.

2. Slaughterers are not paid very well, so they can be bribed. They will sing your tune if they know there is something in it for them. This too, has happened recently. Certain slaughters were promised aid for themselves and their families, so they started attacking the system.

3. At times the people interviewing them will subtly promise better working conditions, better pay, etc. so they truly believe that if they speak out against the current ‘regime; things will change; now they have someone who is listening to them; hence they will say what people want to hear.

4.
Some again are simply sensationalists. Once they get a platform to air their views, they exceed the bounds of honesty. In short, there are a number of reasons why they will make such statements, in spite of the system being totally conducive to the halaal rendering of the poultry.

The fact that tasmiyah can be recited on each bird, as I have proven above, means that the slaughterer who says the contrary is lying. However, assuming they are speaking the truth, this is still insufficient reason to declare the chickens haraam. According to Shariah, if a person points to an animal and says that I slaughtered it without tasmiyah, then one can accept his word and consider that particular animal as haraam. However, if he makes a general and vague statement, such as ‘I don’t read tasmiyah when I slaughter’, etc. then we will not declare any specific animal haraam, especially when we are not sure which animal he had specifically slaughtered and the fact that there are other Muslim slaughterers doing the same job. Moreover, his statement is also contrary to the factual position, that tasmiyah is certainly possible given the line speed mentioned above.

Furthermore, the Shariah says that an animal can be considered halaal on the mere confirmation that it was slaughtered by a Muslim even if one did not hear him say the tasmiyah . There is no doubt that all chickens slaughtered in these plants are by Muslims.

On these grounds, I still maintain that we cannot regard Rainbow or Early Bird as haraam. Yes, it will be better to abstain from processed poultry and eat freshly slaughtered chickens. My personal approach is that I never eat these chickens, but neither do I declare them haraam.

As far as eating at other Muslims’ homes, one does not need to ask where they obtain their meat and chicken from. It is clearly written in the books of Fiqah that when invited by a Muslim, one does not need to query the halaal status of his or her food. And this is my principle when eating at other Muslims’ homes.

I trust this lengthy explanation will put your heart at ease. May Allah Ta’ala give us all the proper understanding of Deen.

Was-salaam

The Shar’ee position on Tasmiya at the time of slaughtering. (A Fiqhi response to the Majlis)

After the removal of the copious amount of stuffing with which this pamphlet has been gratuitously amplified, and once the impulse to respond in kind has been overruled by deeper wisdom and greater decency, the core argument of this diatribe is reduced to one simple claim: that the four madhahib are in agreement on the issue of the tasmiyah during slaughter.

There is a certain element of truth in this claim: all the four madhahib maintain that the tasmiyah forms part of the slaughtering procedure. But what the author of this pamphlet cunningly tries to conceal from his reader is the fact that a significant difference of opinion exists between the madhahib on the exact status of the tasmiyah. Three distinct positions may be spoken of:

1. The tasmiyah is a sunnah. Omitting it, intentionally or unintentionally, does not negatively affect the validity of slaughter, and hence the halal status of the animal. This is the position of Imam Shafi’i. It is also one of various opinions transmitted from Imam Ahmad, and amongst his followers this position was adopted by Abu Bakr al-Marwazi. It is also the preferred opinion of the Maliki jurist Ibn Rushd.

2. The tasmiyah is an integral requirement whose intentional omission renders the slaughter invalid, but if it is omitted by mistake the animal will still be halal. This is the opinion of Imam Abu Hanifah, Imam Malik, and the well-known view of Imam Ahmad.

3. The tasmiyah is an indispensable requirement whose intentional or unintentional omission will make the slaughter invalid. This is another opinion transmitted from Imam Ahmad.

The author of the pamphlet, through a blend of obfuscation, vituperation and the blatant misrepresentation of fact, attempts to reduce all of this to “Fiqhi technicalities which should never feature in the domain of amal (practical Islam).” In the fervour of his crusading zeal he appears oblivious to the irony of such a statement coming from someone who has for decades filled his organ, The Majlis, and streams of other booklets and pamphlets with what can only be described as fiqhi technicalities.

The fact of the matter is that slaughterers are instructed to recite the tasmiyah, and as a matter of routine, regularly do recite it. However, if it ever does happen that a slaughterer, for some reason or the other, happens to omit the tasmiyah, then what ought to be done? This is where the Fuqaha of the Ummah, drawing guidance from the Qur’an and Sunnah, applied their ijtihad in order to provide solutions, with some taking the view that animals slaughtered without the tasmiyah are still halal, while others draw a line between intentional and unintentional omission.

To the pamphlet’s author, these solutions are nothing but “fiqhi technicalities” which he dismisses with contempt and for which fails to find a practical application. His own wisdom has something better to offer. In order to give credence to his own “ijtihad”, he commits the atrocious indiscretion of deliberately blurring the lines between regular procedure and an exceptional situation. In the picture which he draws, all slaughterers omit the tasmiyah all the time, and all halal certifying bodies take recourse to these “fiqhi technicalities” all the time, and never for any motive but to undermine to the Sunnah and to make money. And in this conveniently altered picture of reality, it can never be any different, because all other ulama are abominable leeches and it is only he himself who is above reproach. Having permitted himself the dubious indulgence of painting his opponents in the worst possible colours, he proceeds to ride roughshod over the ijtihad of the venerable Imams of Fiqh by dismissing their treatment of exceptional circumstances as both irrelevant and a negation of the Sunnah. With everyone else thus disqualified and dismissed, there remains for the entire Ummah only one single authority pious, learned and venerable enough to have his diktat enforced without question, and that (no surprise) is Molvi AS Desai of the Majlis.

At the crux of this issue lies one simple issue: When one particular component of a deed has been identified by the Fuqaha, or one of them, as sunnah (as opposed to fard or wajib), then the omission of that component entails two separate issues:

• Firstly, the reason for the omission

• Secondly, the status of the deed on account of the omission

The author of this pamphlet, for psychologically transparent reasons, focuses only on the first aspect, and in doing so, insists with all the force of his loutish vocabulary that the omission can only be on account of most despicable of motives. Looking at the second aspect, which is the status of the deed on account of the omission, is something that requires balance and objectivity—qualities which he very obviously has not been blessed with. However, so pronounced is the degree of his audacity that he simply cannot tolerate the fact that the greatest of the Fuqaha of the past could objectively assess what he himself could not; hence his dismissal of their assessment as “fiqhi technicalities that have no place in practical Islam”.

Authored by Moulana Taha Karan
Member of the MJC Fatwa Committee

ZAAHID is a current slaughterer at the Earlybird Chicken plant in Olifantsfontein, Gauteng. He has been in the employ of Earlybird for the past two decades (20 years). In a conversation with Mufti Shuayb Ravat, senior Ustaadh at Ashraful Madaaris, De Deur, who was one of the panel of four inspectors (three Ulama and one Haafiz), Zaahid pouring out the  years of pent-up frustration  and the sufferings of his Imaani conscience, spoke frankly and said:

“Maulana, I know the history of all these things (i.e. the corruption taking place at Earlybird Chicken plant). These people are out for business. They are not looking after Muslims. So they don’t think for the interests of the people (Muslim people). As you know, they don’t think for the Ummah. Each and everything they do is just for business.

The  truth about the chicken corruption). At the end of the day, the truth must come out.  Truly speaking, the truth must come out.  It has been a long time that these (haraam) things have been happening. It is not only Earlybird (of Olifantsfontein). It includes Earlybird at Standerton and it includes Rainbow – all these abattoirs – until we’ve got powers as Muslims, that we want this, or else these people they can give the Halaal Department to Muslims. Muslims must run the Halaal Departments. That will be the solution. So far there is no solution for these things (i.e. all the haraam irregularities and malpractices).

Maulana! People are just after money, money, money, but you know if it was not a situation of living, then it won’t be a problem. But you can check that, aysh! You know what this means –family, house and all those things. (What Brother Zaahid is trying to convey here is that slaughterers have maintained silence for fear of losing their livelihood.)

Unless a person like me comes out in person, and tells the truth and say: ‘You know what? This is my payslip. I am working at Earlybird. We are working like this and this, and this and this –these things (i.e. the haraam irregularities) happen.

I’ve got minutes from years ago for all we had been complaining — that we want this, we want this. People, this management don’t want to listen. Whenever SANHA comes, they make a duck and a dive over all those things. WHATEVER WE WANTED TO TELL SANHA,  WE TOLD SANHA STRAIGHT. I remember onetime we told SANHA that, “You know what?’ Then there was this Imam Harris from Cape Town. He came here and we told him also: ‘You know what?  Imam MJC – Imam! Let us not sell our religion! Let us tell these people the truth, whatever may happen. If they do not want to listen to us, let’s withdraw the certificate. They won’t allow us to withdraw the certificate. Why should we listen to them all the time?”

They will tell you that ‘No, we can’t pay people who are working one hour and go rest for one hour’. But did they understand why we are sitting one hour? We are working physically and mentally. That is why we need that hour to rest. You can’t stay on the line two hours. And these lines are fast.  So all these things I told, we told (i.e. to SANHA and Imam Harris).

Maulana, you know what? We’ve even got the union in the Plant. The union can negotiate things. But these non-Muslims don’t understand what is Islam – what is Halaal – what is Haraam. They don’t understand about this. So all these things (we told them).

Maulana, you are the people who have to put the pressure, and if they don’t want to listen, then WITHDRAW THE CERTIFICATE.  Imam Harris, he promised and said: ‘I will come back’. Then came SANHA. We sat down. One of the guys, he’s a CEO now, Stefan Vermaak…… I defeated them (SANHA and the CEO) in that meeting while even those Maulanas were there ….because I told them that. I was with a guy from Malawi who quoted aayats from the Qur’aan. So that guy, Stefan Vermaak asked me and that Malawi guy to go out. We waited outside while they were discussing inside with those sheikhs. We don’t know what transpired there inside and how they finished their meeting. After that, they just tell us: ‘No time’.  We will fix the problem, just go to your working places.’

So, each and everything what they do, they force you.  If you don’t do it, you will get fired. So, when you think about your stomach all the time, you will always keep quiet about these doings –just because there is nothing you can say – just because you don’t get any support from Muslims.

If a governing body like MJC doesn’t give you any support, and if a body like SANHA doesn’t give you any support, what will you say? ‘You (i.e. the slaughterers) are nothing.’   Besides saying these things, I am not a politician or whatever.

You know some of the things this SANHA and MJC do? They make these kuffaar (i.e. Earlybird) to undermine us because we are blacks and maybe they don’t understand Islam like other people.  Just because you are black…….Whatever you say this and this is not halaal, they will say to you: ‘No! No! No! No!, we can’t talk to you (i.e. because we are black) We will call an Imam about all these things.”

Even the stunner, if it is not working, they force you to slaughter. These people are only after production. They don’t care whether those people are ZCC (i.e. Zionist Christian Church) or whatever. What they want is just to count that today we make 135 birds (per minute). They don’t care how it is done, whether halaal or whatever. It doesn’t matter. Whatever you tell them about halaal, they just won’t understand.

I used to fight with Rahmat about everything. He doesn’t like me. (Rahmat is SANHA’s chief supervisor at Earlybird Chicken plant) All the time he listen to the kuffaar. I told him: ‘Rahmat, you can’t allow these things whatever like this and this.” But, at the end of the day I do understand that the poor guy is looking after his family. There is nothing he can do. Rahmat doesn’t have the power. These are the problems.

There are plus-minus 14 local South African slaughterers who are Hanafis, and about 15 Malawians. Some of them are casuals. They are Shaafis.

You know, that is why some of the things they do are not right. These people are from Malawi. They are from far, you see. They are here only for a job. Therefore, they listen to anything. No matter what you say and demand that you want this. At the end of the day you’ll be defeated by those guys because they will comply (with management).

Before when there were just locals (doing the slaughtering) these things did not happen. I know Maulana Khan from Standerton. I know him well. He was the one who was fighting for all these things. So after that he ended up resigning. (The Muslim community will recall that the Carrion Chicken saga was initiated by the resignation of Maulana Doba and Maulana Khan from Earlybird. Now Zaahid has confirmed the hidden Truth on which SANHA has been trampling. This episode will, Insha’Allah, form a separate chapter of   SANHA’s Carrion Chicken Saga. It will be raised again in a future communication, Insha’Allah)

All the mist and steam on the visor (of the masks which the slaughterers wear) give us a problem. But these people don’t understand when you want to be relieved after an hour (of slaughtering).

One of the shocking things is that the last time when we checked with these Malawi people, we find that some of them just came to work and slaughter, and that they were not Muslims. We then chased them away. Whose responsibility is this?

There is a broker who deals with the casuals. So if it’s a holiday, public holiday, we are not there at work. They just go and hire any Malawian. You see they take any people for slaughtering.    You know, Maulana, these things, everyone (of SANHA and MJC) knows it. Maulana, Earlybird is not Halaal. Even Standerton –they’re not doing Halaal.    Maulana, I am prepared to go forward. How can you recite on this line speed with which you can’t cope? How can you recite? You can’t! Even if you know how to recite, you can go mad!  These people (SANHA and cohorts) mustn’t cry.

We are doing between 200,000 to 240,000 a day. That is impossible! (i.e. It is impossible to recite Tasmiah on this huge amount of chickens daily). So if someone doesn’t know anything, anything (of the Deen) and comes to slaughter chickens, what do you call that? So you as the slaughterer should have the power to take out the Malawi (from the job) and to tell him: ‘No! No! No! You can go out. You’re not qualified for this job.”    We are born in problems. Problems are there until, until I die – the problems will be there. All these years I am staying here I have been experiencing problems. So there’s one thing that I know –at the end of the day we are going to get the reward – not in this dunya. We are going to get the reward after we finish from this dunya.

What I am saying now is that what you are doing, Maulana, is the right thing. I  can tell you that some of the people who have been crying (about these haraam practices) have already died. I told Yunus (another slaughterer): ‘No, at least we know that we have found the people who will act.” (This is a reference to the inspection group). That is why we are doing this (i.e. co-operating). We wanted to understand these people – who are they? Where they come from? –all those things. So now I got the whole information, that is why I am prepared (to speak the truth). (What Zaahid is saying here is that he  and the slaughterers have satisfied themselves that the Ulama who had conducted this latest inspection are not like the SANHA molvies who had all along swept the carrion rot under the carpet thereby pulling wool over the eyes of the Ummah – hoodwinking them into the quagmire of consumption of HARAAM, DISEASED CARRION EARLYBIRD AND RAINBOW CHICKENS.)

Yunus is not a supervisor. He is an acting supervisor. If someone is acting, he is shaky because he is looking for the position.”  (End of Zaahid’s heart’s lament which we are sure will find its way to the Divine Arsh.  Insha’Allah, this Lament of the Heart will flatten the carrion brains of the SANHA mob.)

SANHA’S LIES AND CARRION PUMMELED

his is straight, sincere talk from the heart of an Earlybird slaughterer of two decades. Every unprejudiced Muslim who reads his cry and lament with an open mind in the quest for the Haqq, will  understand the Truth which flows from every word emanating from the unsophisticated tongue of Zaahid  regardless of the language deficiency. Every Muslim can understand from this heartfelt LAMENT the LIES which SANHA has been feeding Muslims in its desperate bid to sustain its Haraam Carrion Chicken industry. SANHA has recklessly, flagrantly and knowingly been feeding Muslims HARAAM CARRION CHICKENS.  Can the word of such devils ever be trusted? Knowingly feeding Muslims HARAAM CARRION!!!  It was not a one-time error. SANHA has been sustaining and covering up with LIES this HARAAM corruption, akin to KUFR, for over 12 years. It is disgusting and utterly disgraceful.

SANHA is, Alhamdulillah, sealing its own credibility fate with the mammoth and dark lies it is proclaiming from the rooftops. Just imagine! Blatantly denying an inspection of several hours by several Ulama! Only paranoia caused by carrion haraam chickens and an incorrigible addiction for feasting on LIES have blinded SANHA into this latest blunder of LIES. The lengthy discussions with the slaughterers, the signing of papers at the plant, both on entry and at the point where  the plant attire had to be donned for the inspection, the  office discussion with Rehmat (SANHA’s chief supervisor at Earlybird), the several telephonic discussions with slaughterers and even with the supervisor, SANHA’s threat to the supervisor after it learnt of the inspection, the lengthy frank, heart-talk of Zaahid (the slaughterer of 20 years service), audio and visual recordings of the inspection – all adequate evidence for any future court wrangle with SANHA — all testify loudly and explicitly to the inspection which despite being clearer than daylight is denied by the insane Carrion Purveyor, SANHA!!!

SANHA is, Alhamdulillah,  in the advanced stage of preparing its own coffin. It is left to us to nail the rotting and stinking corpse of SANHA in the coffin of its own making Denial of explicit facts staring  one so glaringly in the face is clear evidence of the insanity which is creeping into the brains of those like SANHA who have been feeding the Ummah HARAAM DISEASED ROTTEN CARRION CHICKENS. SANHA should not forget that over the years of its miserable illegitimate existence it has brutally tortured to death billions of Allah’s defenceless Makhlooq, and that it has fed the Ummah billions of  HARAAM CARRION chickens in the name of Islam.

SANHA! Be rest assured that this Carrion Saga will continue and be perpetuated as long as you feed the Ummah HARAAM CARRION in Allah’s Name.

READ THE FULL VERBATIM REPORT ON EARLYBIRD HARAAM CARRION CHICKENS issued by the Ulama who had undertook the inspection.The REPORT in booklet form will be distributed within the next few days by Jamiatul Ulama Gauteng, Insha’Allah.

Issued by
MUJLISUL ULAMA OF S.A.
P.O.Box 3393
Port Elizabeth  6056
Fax 041-4513566
e-mail: mujlisul.ulama@gmail.com
19 Jamadil Ula 1430  -  16 May 2009