Mission
To provide quality, authentic, hand slaughtered halal products, which are government inspected, and available to the customer at a competitive price. Sheik Halal Farms is approved and certified by Halal Monitoring Authority Canada ( HMA ).
To provide quality, authentic, hand slaughtered halal products, which are government inspected, and available to the customer at a competitive price. Sheik Halal Farms is approved and certified by Halal Monitoring Authority Canada ( HMA ).
Halal is an Arabic term meaning “permissible” Or lawful. To Muslims, the word has a larger meaning, but in the context of food, it refers to what may be consumed by Muslims in accordance with Islamic Law or Shariah. The opposite or antonym of Halal is Haram or forbidden. For the meat of animals to be halal, it must have been slaughtered according to Shariah. The hand slaughtered animal is referred to as Dhabihah (Zabihah) in Islam, and is regulated by a set rules that assure the health of the animal to be slaughtered and conformance to Islamic religious law, which is derived from the Holy Qur’an and Sunnah (way of the Prophet Muhammad, may God’s peace be upon him) as found in the books of Hadith complied by Imam Bukhari, Imam Muslim and others.
Mentioning the name of Allah should, according to the Qur’an, precede the act of slaughtering itself. Invoking the name of Allah at the moment of slaughtering is interpreted as acknowledgment of God’s right over all things. Furthermore, it is an asking of permission to take the life of the animal to be slaughtered and endows the slaughterer with a sense of gratitude for Allah’s creation, even prior to partaking in the meat of the animal. Thus, the slaughter itself is preceded by the words “Bismillah, AllahuAkbar”,which means ‘In the Name of God, God is Supreme’.
According to Islamic law, the conventional method used to slaughter the animal involves cutting the coronary arteriesalong with the jugular veins with one swipe of a non-serrated, sharp blade. This method of slaughter serves two goals. It provides for a painless death, as the immediate loss of blood flow to the brain renders the animal unconscious and it also effectively drains the blood from the animal. This is important because the consumption of blood itself is forbidden in Islam. Muslims consider this method of killing the animal to be cleaner and more merciful to the animal.