The halal-ity of your food.

[Sweetmoi]

Re: The halal-ity of your food.

@coolgirl

I am totally confused. Are you talking about halal chicken or zabiha chicken because these two words are very different. We eat chicken that’s not zabiha outside at restaurants but we have always gone to detroit to get zabiha meat for our home and dawats. I am not sure what context halal word is being used here..

Hmm .. so I have never heard the word zabiha before, but from the last page, this is what I understood.

Halal - used when we are allowed to eat certain things, like chicken, lamb etc etc.

Zabiha - the way it has been slaughtered, meaning Muslim way.

But from where I am, we refer “halal” to the way of slaughtering. So for me a chicken isn’t halal until it has been slaughtered according to Muslim ways while for some people (who use the word zabiha) chicken is halal without being slaughtered muslim way, and its zabiha when its slaughtered muslim way. Indeed, all this zabiha vs. halal is VERY confusing! I dont understand where the word Zabiha is coming from? Because although my parents are raised in Pakistan/Uk, they both only refer to meat as being Halal when it is slaughtered properly. :s