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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Islamic Laws of Ayatullah Khui Slaughetering and Hunting of Animals 2592. If an animal, whose meat is lawful to eat, is slaughtered in the manner which will be told later (whether it be a wild animal or a domestic one) its meat becomes lawful and its body becomes pure after it has breathed its last.

However, if a man has sexual intercourse with an animal or a sheep sucks the milk of a sow or an animal has habituated itself to eating impurities and its confining (Istibra’ ) has not been performed in accordance with the rules prescribed by law (See: Article 226), it is not lawful to eat the meat of such an animal after its being slaughtered.

**2593.**If a wild animal like deer, partridge and wild goat whose meat is lawful to eat, and an animal whose meat is lawful to eat, and which was a domestic one and became wild later (e.g. a cow or a camel which runs away and becomes wild) is hunted in accordance with the orders which will be narrated later, it is pure and lawful to eat.

However, a domestic animal like sheep and fowl whose meat is lawful to eat and a wild animal whose meat is lawful to eat and which is domesticated by means of training does not become pure and lawful by hunting. 2594. A wild animal whose meat is lawful to eat becomes pure and lawful by hunting in case it can run away or fly away. Hence, the young one of a deer which cannot run, and the young one of a partridge which cannot fly, do not become pure and lawful to eat by hunting.

And if a deer and its young one which cannot run are hunted with one arrow the deer is lawful but its young one is unlawful. 2595. If an animal like fish whose meat is lawful to eat, and whose blood does not gush, dies a natural death, it is pure but its meat cannot be eaten. 2596. The dead body of an animal whose meat is unlawful to eat and whose blood does not gush (e.g. snake) is pure, but does not become lawful by slaughtering. 2597.

Dogs and pigs do not become pure by slaughtering and hunting and it is also unlawful to eat their meat. And it a flesh eating animal like wolf and leopard is slaughtered in the manner which will be told later, or is hunted by means of arrow etc. it is pure, but its meat does not become lawful to eat, and if it is hunted with a hunting dog, it is difficult to say that its body becomes pure. 2598.

If elephant, bear, monkey, rat and animals like lizard which live underground have gushing blood and die a natural death, they are impure.