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Eating food containing animal fat of unknown origin
Assalaamu alaykum.
1. I would like to know if there is a tolerable/permitted quantity or percentage of haram meat or meat extracts in food. There is a tolerance of alcohol up to a "rate of 5 in ten thousand" according to http://www.irfi.org, so does this go for meat too?
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Living off of unlawful earnings of guardian
Assalaamu alaykum. I am under the guardianship of my father, and his income is haram, so everything which I eat, drink, or wear is haram, but I have no choice, so I have to live with him. This is only caused by necessity. So should I eat three meals a day, or how much water should I drink, or how many clothes should I wear given that the money is haram?.. More
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Eating food and then doubting whether it is lawful
If I ate unknown food that might be halal or haram, do I have to throw it up? And is doing this haram? Also, if I pray without throwing it up, is my prayer accepted? Sorry, again, Shaykh, for asking more than one question.
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Carrying groceries that may contain haraam ingredients
Some of the food that my family buys contains haram ingredients. Is it wrong for me to help moving the groceries without being sure that the food is halal?
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Halaal food made in same production line as haraam food
Assalaamu alaykum. We would like to inform you that the food outlets in Hong Kong - processing, handling and output - have come across a number of difficulties in accessing halal food. We would like to ask our respectable Islamic scholars the following question: What does Islam say about a situation where the food that we consume is produced in the.. More
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Asking about ingredients of food in restaurant
Assalaamu alaykum. Is it permissible to eat at a place that makes sandwiches where the workers are supposed to use gloves and change them for each customer, even if a worker may have not done so and there may have been contamination of a non-halal ingredient on a halal ingredient? Is one sinful if they eat in such as place?
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Eating pineapple cider vinegar
Assalaamu alaykum wa rahmatullaahi wa barakaatuhu. I wanted to make homemade pineapple cider vinegar. It involves putting pineapple skin scraps, water, and dark brown sugar in a container for 2 weeks. Then it is ready; is it halal for me to consume this?
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Selling poultry fed with antibiotics
Assalaamu alaykum. I would like to know whether my business is halal or not. I started a poultry business in my country. There is an issue of using antibiotics in chickens internationally due to antibiotic resistance in humans. We are trying to decrease the use of antibiotics by only using it when the birds need it. However, there is a small amount.. More
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Ruling on goat milk tainted with blood
I have a question related to goat milk with some blood. I usually buy raw milk, and this time, the owner said that there was some blood in the milk and that it would settle in a day. She thought that their goat milk contained some blood due to the minerals that they gave to it. So now I wonder whether that milk is halal to use or not. Thank you very.. More
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Ruling on eating rennet and other animal extracts
Assalaamu alaykum, dear Shaykh. I read in Fiqh-us-Sunnah that the rennet of unlawful animals is pure and halal. My question is: then why can we not also apply that to hormones, milk and other extracts, especially now that some drugs and food items may contain these substances? Please, dear Shaykh, do not refer me to other fatwas because sometimes the.. More
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Feeding flesh of dead animals to fish
Please, what is the stance of the Sharia on feeding fish with the flesh of dead animals like poultry, goats and cow?
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Ruling of drinking kratom tea
Please tell me whether kratom tea is halal or haram.
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Food not thrown away because of mere suspicion of impurity
If I work at a place, and one if my managers gets food from McDonald's and heats up his sandwhiches on our grill. Will the grill become impure given that it is well known that McDonald's cooks their breakfast sandwiches as well as other beef sandwiches along with bacon on the same grill? I have two cousins who worked at a McDonald's and told me this... More
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Eating food provided by government for students
Assalaamu alaykum. I work in a boarding school as a member of the teaching staff. Free food and residence are provided by the governmentfor students in these schools. Monthly, a certain amount is released by the government per head (total number of students). The warden is supposed to take the attendance of the students and spend food grains, vegetables,.. More
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Drinking tea offered in a usurious bank
I have a bank account in a conventional bank in order to be able to receive my salary from my office, and it is mandatory. I have to go to the bank for my personal and official purposes. Sometimes, they offer me tea, but I always politely refuse. Today, however, they requested me to take tea in such way that it was hard to refuse it, so I accepted it... More
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