Animal Welfare in Islam

Animal Welfare in Islam attempts to bring out the kind and compassionate Islamic teachings regarding animal welfare. The Islamic instruction and guidance on animals' needs and man's obligations concerning animals is so comprehensive that Muslims need not go elsewhere for any guidance. Not to be cruel or even to be condescendingly kind to the so-called inferior animals is a negative proposition. Islam wants its adherents to think and act in the positive terms of accepting all species as communities like us in their own right and not to sit in judgement on them according to our human norms and values. The book also examines animal sacrifice as practised by the adherents of major world religions. It raises the issue of the mass production of meat and exhorts the Muslim community, in the West particularly, to tackle the issue of "Halal" meat in an appropriate manner.

In 1961 he settled in England, studied journalism and for six years was the joint editor of the well known Islamic monthly magazine: The Islamic Review. In 1964 he became the first Sunni Muslim to be appointed as the Imam of the Shah Jehan Mosque, Woking, England. He continued his animal welfare interests in England, working closely with the charity Compassion in World Farming (formerly the Athene Trust), which published the first edition of this book as "Animals in Islam" in 1988.