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slaughter only as many animals as he can do properly so that people cannot make any complaints.
When cutting the meat, the butcher should remove the Ḥarām parts and throw them away. It is Farḍ for a meat-eating person to be able to identify the Ḥarām parts of the slaughtered animal so that he/she can avoid eating them. Similarly, it is Wājib for him/her to identify the Makrūĥ Taḥrīmī parts so that he/she cannot eat sinful things. (The parts of meat which are not edible have been discussed in the following pages.)
Due to greed for money, some butchers slaughter many animals in a wrong way during the days of Qurbānī, violating the Sharī’aĥ and endangering their afterlife. One should avoid this and slaughter animals in conformity with the Sharī’aĥ even if he is able to slaughter only one. He will attain its blessings in the worldly life as well as in the afterlife, اِنْ شَــآءَالـلّٰـه عَزَّوَجَلَّ. Otherwise, if he slaughters animals in a hurry to satisfy his greed for money, he may have to commit many sins.
After removing the skin of a big or a small animal, some meat-sellers pump water with a pipe into the heart after they have made a cut into it or into an artery, increasing the weight of the meat. To sell such meat deceivingly is a Ḥarām act leading to Hell. Some chicken-meat sellers keep slaughtered chickens in water for 15 minutes with their
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