Ask Qul - Food & Drinks - imported meat

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Question : #444

Subject:	imported meat
Question:	Is it permissible to eat, buy and sell imported chickens from Muslim countries on which is written the phrase Slaughtered in the Islamic Manner?
Answer:	It is permissible for you to eat, buy and sell them as long as you do not know that they were not slaughtered (in the Islamic manner), whether the previously mentioned phrase is written on them or not.

Follow Up Question:	And if these (chickens) are imported from non-Muslim countries and written on them is the phrase Slaughtered in the Islamic Manner?
Follow Up Response Question:	It is not permissible for you to eat them if you are not confident that they have truly been slaughtered in the Islamic manner and not just claimed to be.