some slaughter blood to drink. Yet this is not the bulk of their diet; most of what they consume is wholesome feed. The owners provide that blood merely to strengthen the birds or speed their growth, and in such a case neither prohibition nor dislike applies, for when the greater part of the feed is wholesome, the ruling follows the greater part.

This, then, is the jalālah. Its ban on riding is a question of propriety. As for eating its meat, the ruling is either mild disapproval or outright prohibition—scholars differ—provided that the majority of its fodder is impure. If the impure portion is less than the wholesome, there is no objection. Allah alone grants success.