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e. The Metaphysics of the Animal Mind
f. Rights in the Resources of Nature
Human Needs and Interests (Al-Maṣāliḥ)
Factory-Farming
General Reforms of Islam
The Moral Appeal of Islam
Beasts of Burden
Mental Cruelty
Slaughter of Food Animals
Conclusion
References and Notes
Chapter Two: Vegetarianism v/s Meatarianism
Preamble
The Dialectics of Diet and Health
The Importance of Vitamins
The Anatomy of Man
The Economics of Food
Confucianism
Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism
Christianity
Judaism and Islam
References and Notes
Chapter Three: Animal Sacrifice
Preamble
The Ancient Orient
Confucianism
Hinduism
Jainism
Buddhism
Christianity
Judaism
The Biblical Concept of God
Concepts of God
Atonement
The Judaic Theology of Sacrifice
The Cultus of Sacrifice
Biblical Condemnation of Sacrifice
The Rabbinship (Priesthood)
The Meaning of Sacrifice
War – Living Graves
Islam
The Prelude to Islamic Sacrifice
The Islamic Theology of Sacrifice
Sacrifice as Charity and Alternative Offerings
Sacrifice by Proxy
The Three Kinds of Sacrifices
Appendix A
References and Notes
Chapter Four: Ḥalāl Meat – the Bone of Contention
Preamble
Lawful and Unlawful Meat
The Qur’ānic Dietary Ordinances
Food of the “People of The Book”
The Paradoxical Enigma of Pork
Is Jewish Food Ḥalāl?
Blood
The Invocation of God’s Name (Tasmiyah and Takbīr)
The Relative Significance of Bleeding and the Invocation of God’s Name
References and Notes
Index
QUITE A FEW of my friends have been surprised to learn that I have chosen ‘Animals’ as a subject to write on from the Islamic point of view. They feel that I should be more concerned with other multifarious problems which Muslims are facing these days and for which they need help and guidance in solving. The way I look at it, however, is that life on this earth is so inextricably intertwined as an homogeneous unit that it cannot be disentangled for the amelioration of one species at the expense of another.
All human problems – physical, mental or spiritual – are of our own creation and our wounds self-inflicted. By no stretch of imagination can we blame animals for any of our troubles and make them suffer for it.
There is no paucity of Muslim scholars and theologians who are far more qualified than me to expound
