What is the reason both scientifically and spiritually to make Halal chicken, Halal goat, but not fish?
when we Slaughter the chicken or the goat we do zabihah, So why is there not requirement to do zabihah to a fish and that’s a very good question.
As far as Islam is concerned Quran clearly mentions in Surah Al-Ma’idah chapter number five verse Number 96
أُحِلَّ لَكُمْ صَيْدُ الْبَحْرِ وَطَعَامُهُ مَتَاعًا لَّكُمْ وَلِلسَّيَّارَةِ ۖ وَحُرِّمَ عَلَيْكُمْ صَيْدُ الْبَرِّ مَا دُمْتُمْ حُرُمًا ۗ وَاتَّقُوا اللَّهَ الَّذِي إِلَيْهِ تُحْشَرُونَ
Lawful to you is the pursuit of water-game and its use for food,- for the benefit of yourselves and those who travel; but forbidden is the pursuit of land-game;- as long as ye are in the sacred precincts or in pilgrim garb. And fear Allah, to Whom ye shall be gathered back.
[5:96]
that lawful for you is the pursuit of the water game and Allah says in Surah Al-Ma’idah lawful for you a food of the sea fresh and tender.
So Allah has given permission it’s allowed and there are various Hadith. That also says that amongst the dead animal the only two that are permitted it is the fish and the Locust.
So the Hadith and only blood that is permitted is that of the spleen and the liver. So islamically it is permitted to have fish without doing zabihah, but we know islamically whether goat, chicken or cow Etc. When we have to eat them we have to slaughter to zabihah.
in zabihah What we do, there are various conditions the main is, that see to it that the knife is sharp, see to it that it’s not in front of other goat, and you do it swiftly, and once we Slaughter the wind pipe and the veins and veins and the artery.
When you do it, you leave it, you leave the animal, the animal will rther and the blood will flow out of the animal.
So when you do zabihah the blood which is a good media of germs and bacteria majority flows out of the body, so that’s the reason zabihah is compulsory when we are having non veg food like, meat, mutton, beef Etc, anything we have to do zabihah this is the scientific, so that the blood flows out of the body.
When the blood flows out of the animal’s body, there are less germs and bacteria because blood is a very good medium of germs and bacteria.
So it keeps the mutton or the chicken fresh for a longer time, if you have slaughtered by the Islamic method of zabihah a goat or a sheep or a cow or a chicken it will stay for a longer time because blood is a very good media of germs and bacteria.
So in the normal cases that if you don’t do zabihah the blood remains in the body of the animal and even the disease remains and high chances of you getting the disease.
So Islamic slaughtering zabihah is a must for non veg.
Now the question posed is why not zabihah for fish?
because fish is sea life and goat and sheep they are animals, they don’t live in water, the difference in the system is that in the fish there are gills and when the fish dies it gasps when it gasps the gills it sucks all the blood into the gills.
So in a fish when a fish dies, when a fish is bought outside water it struggles and you find it rering and then it dies. So when it’s out of water because the fish cannot breathe, so what happens when it starts breathing and it cannot, it can only normally breathe in water, it doesn’t have the function to breathe in normal air like of human animals have.
So what happens most of the blood is sucked by the gills, so when a fish has died because of loss of air loss of oxygen, when it dies the blood is sucked by the gills, that’s the reason the scientifically the blood doesn’t remain in the body of the fish.
Number one the blood of the fish differs from the blood of the goat the sheep or the animal, it’s not as much of bacteria and toxins as the blood of the goat, the cow, the sheep, and secondly the blood is sucked.
So first of all this blood is not as dangerous as the blood of the animals number, two the blood is sucked because the blood is sucked the germs and bacteria are not there.
So eating the fish is safe this is is the scientific reason hope that answer the question.