<![CDATA[This study examines the reconstruction of Islamic legal reasoning toward halal regulation in a secular Muslim-minority state, analyzing Australia's regulatory framework (the Export Control Act 2020, Australian Standard AS 4696:2023) alongside fatwas and institutional guidelines issued by SICHMA, ICCV, ANIC, and AFIC between 2013 and 2024, through a doctrinal-analytical approach. Analysis of these regulatory documents and fatwas shows that the Islamic legal bodies examined have consistently responded to secular regulatory pressure reactively, without developing a coherent maqāṣid al-sharī’ah-based framework of reasoning, as evidenced by ANIC and AFIC's divergent positions on controlled atmospheric stunning in 2023. This pattern produces three institutional consequences, identifiable from the same data: communal confusion in the face of inconsistent certification, fragmentation of religious identity, and the erosion of the legitimacy of Islamic legal authority. Building on this analysis, the study proposes the Contextual Halal Legal Navigation Model (CHLNM), a maqāṣid al-sharī’ah-grounded framework integrating textual foundation, contextual awareness, maqāṣid orientation, and educational internalization, as a legal-theoretical contribution that repositions Islamic law not as a mechanism of administrative compliance but as an adaptive process of ethical formation responsive to secular regulatory contexts. ]]>
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