Islamic dietary rules require that animals that provide food for the faithful be slaughtered in a very specific way. Muslims are allowed to eat camel meat, but how can you kill a camel according to ritual halal rules, which specify the precise manner in which the camel’s throat is cut? A camel does not permit human beings to kill him according to the religious requirements, but if a camel has not been killed in the ritual way then one is not allowed to eat it. What to do?
The first Muslims solved the problem by cunning.