Kutha (Kuttha) meat is defined as "meat of animal or fowl slaughtered slowly as prescribed by Islamic law." It has been more broadly defined as "killing an animal with a prayer" or "a sacrifice to God" or meat prepared through "unnecessary ritualism".

There are two views on Kutha meat, the Sikh view, which sees Kutha as that which has been "sacrificed", and the Hindu view, which views Kutha as a means of repression, and a non-Hindu Aryan method of slaughter.

Eating Kutha Meat for a baptised Sikh is considered to be one of the 4 Cardinal Sins. These 4 sins are part of the Sikh Code of Conduct (Rehit Maryada). In the Rehit Marayada Section Six, it states: The undermentioned four transgressions (tabooed practices) must be avoided:

The reason for Sikhs avoiding Kutha "does not lie in religious tenet but in the view that killing an animal with a prayer is not going to ennoble the flesh." There is another view that Guru Gobind Singh (the tenth Sikh Guru), instructed his Sikhs not to eat Kutha meat in order to boycott the Moghul Empire.

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Kutha, Cuthah, or Cutha (Sumerian: Gudua, modern Tell Ibrahim, Babil Governorate, Iraq) was an ancient city of Sumer on the right bank of the eastern branch of the Upper Euphrates, north of Nippur and around 25 miles northeast of Babylon. It should not be confused with the site Tell Ibrahim Awad in Egypt.

According to the Tanakh, Cuthah was one of the five Syrian and Mesopotamian cities from which Sargon II, King of Assyria, brought settlers to take the places of the exiled Israelites (2 Kings 17:24-30). II Kings relates that these settlers were attacked by lions, and interpreting this to mean that their worship was not acceptable to the deity of the land, they asked Sargon to send someone to teach them, which he did.

The result was a mixture of religions and peoples, the latter being known as "Cuthim" in Hebrew and as "Samaritans" to the Greeks.

Kutha is also the name of the capital of the Sumerian underworld, Irkalla