What is the ruling on eating meat slaughtered in Norway using a stunning gun for cattle and electric shock for sheep, with assurance that the animal did not die before slaughter, given that there is halal meat available at three times the price, and that this is a burden on the majority of Muslims?

If stunning or electrocution does not terminate the life of the animal before its Islamic slaughter (dhakat shar'iyyah), then it is permissible. However, if it leads to its death before the slaughter, then it is considered carrion (maytah) and is impermissible to eat. This method is not the prophetic guidance (al-hady al-nabawi), and it is better to abandon it and use natural slaughter. There is no religious impediment to eating the meat of an animal slaughtered according to Islamic law after it has been stunned or dazed, as long as its life was not terminated.