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Is it permissible to eat and sell frozen meat imported from non-Muslim countries, given doubts about the method of its slaughter and the authenticity of the "halal meat" label on it, and given that some of these countries are not lands of People of the Book?

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It is permissible to eat a slaughtered animal if it has been slaughtered according to Islamic law and the slaughterer is a Muslim or a person of the Book (Jewish or Christian). It is stipulated that the slaughter must be performed according to the Islamic method. If the animal is strangled, electrocuted, or shot with a pistol, it is considered carrion.

Imported meats from countries of the People of the Book are permissible unless there is a strong suspicion that they were slaughtered in a non-Sharia-compliant manner. However, if these countries are predominantly secular or Zoroastrian, their meats are considered carrion unless it is known that they were slaughtered lawfully by Muslims or people of the Book.

The inscription "Halal meat" does not signify anything. It is safer for a Muslim to limit their consumption to fish and plant-based foods, acting upon the hadith: "Leave that which makes you doubt for that which does not make you doubt."

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