Islamic law is most prescriptive in its insistence on humane treatment.
There are many published papers on how Islam provides an ethic of environmental concern and nonhuman animal protection. The demand for and production of authoritative rulings is one form of social expression of normative Islam. For most Muslims, Islamic normativity (fiqh or shari’a) is an essential part of being a Muslim. In Islam, the law is a privileged means of access to the sacred. There is considerable debate on the role of religion in animal welfare, with implications for the study of welfare for welfare assessment and for implementation of solutions to welfare problems. A campaign is needed to apprise religious leaders of the current cruelty that occurs during transport and slaughter. There is an urgent need to sensitize all Muslims to the teachings of animal welfare in the Qur’an and the Hadiths. Many Muslims and Islamic religious leaders are not aware of the cruelty that is routinely inflicted on animals during transport, pre-slaughter, and slaughter in many Islamic countries. Regardless of pre-stunning, such meat should not be treated as halāl or at least be considered as Makrooh (detestable or abominable), because the animals have been beaten or treated without compassion during production, handling, transport, and slaughter. In many countries animals are killed without pre-stunning. Islam has also laid down rules for humane slaughter. Islam is explicit with regard to using animals for human purposes and there is a rich tradition of the Prophet Mohammad’s (pbuh) concern for animals to be found in the Hadith and Sunna. Islam is a comprehensive religion guiding the lives of its followers through sets of rules governing the personal, social, and public aspects through the verses of the Holy Qur’an and Hadiths, the compilation of the traditions of Prophet Mohammed (pbuh), the two main documents that serve as guidelines.
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