Halaal Talk

BBC NEWS (27 April 2012) reported: “Monika Samaan fell ill with samonella poisoning after eating a “Twister” wrap at a KFC restaurant near Sydney in 2005. The poisoning left her wheelchair-bound and unable to speak. A judge of the Supreme Court of the state of New South Wales awarded the $8 million damages after ruling [...]

THEIR MISLEADING RESPONSE In response to our announcement that AQUELLE FLAVOURED WATER IS HARAAM The Aquelle Management wrote: “In response to a leaflet sent out by The Majlis we confirm that according to current South African legislation (Foodstuffs, Cosmetics and Disinfectants Act, 1972 –Act 54 of 1972) and Regulation 146 Relating to the Labelling and [...]

Symbols of Paganism and Christianity Allah Ta’ala declares: “O Believers! If you follow any group from among those who were given a Scripture, they will convert you to kaafirs after you having Imaan.” (Surah Aali Imraan, 100) Rasoolullah (Sallallahu alaihi wasallam) said: “Whosoever imitates a nation, then verily he is from among them.” (Abu Dawood, [...]

SOME OF THE FLAVOURED WATER PRODUCTS OF AQUELLA WATERS CONTAIN ALCOHOL. The company is not prepared to say which of its flavours contain alcohol, claiming that such information is a trade secret. IT IS THEREFORE WAAJIB FOR MUSLIMS TO ABSTAIN FROM ALL AQUELLA WATER PRODUCTS. Source: Majlis

While retailer Woolworths has come under fire from some Christians for putting the halaal certification mark on hot cross bun packaging, (Father) Chris Townsend of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference has labelled the issue “nothing more than a storm in a baking pan”. E-mails on the issue made the rounds of SA on Wednesday [...]

I was speaking to my sister about this and that and as I was about to end my conversation when I mentioned that I was going to bake using my Snowflake easy mix whereupon she told me that it was haraam. I was shocked as the packaging suggested nothing haraam unless the colourant (which had [...]

Halal meat more tender, less cruel, say experts. Even as the UK Parliament refuses to serve halal meat at restaurants on its premises, fresh scientific opinion suggests halal is the better option. TOI investigates. For Mohammad Salim, owner of a tiny meat shop in the Gurdwara Road Market of New Delhi’s Kotla Mubarakpur area, business [...]

New Zealand has hopes of regaining its $31 million beef trade with Malaysia now that it has resolved a six-year dispute over halal slaughter. The trade took a dive after Malaysian authorities refused to accept meat from plants they said were not following halal principles. Export tonnages of beef are now a fifth of the [...]

A man from the province of Breda has been sentenced to one year in jail for selling horse meat imported from South America as Dutch halal meat. The man sold the to French supermarkets in 2007-2008, using falsified certificates claiming it was halal slaughtered beef.

We are all aware of the fact that leadership in any community is indeed a difficult task and in this respect Islamic leadership is no different. The responsibility may be very onerous, the workload huge, the stress enormous and the thanks one gets in return are sometimes conspicuous by their absence. Leaders often play the [...]