Shaikh my brother wants to be a chef as i enquired about the institutes they teach to cook pork as well in short we have to touch pork , so my question is is it permissible to my brother to touch it while learning or he should look for any other career ?

Halal/Haram Matters, Jobs
07 Jun

ANSWER: He must refrain from doing this.

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sheikh…..is it permissible to eat chicken n mutton of muslim brands like sadia n alameen which export their meat in bulk to other countries because i have heard people saying that when they r exporting in bulk they dont follow the halal rules of slaughtering is it also pernissible to eat chicken nuggets n sausages of muslim brands like sadia n alameen because i have heard people saying weird things like they grind the complete hen n lamb for making sausages

Halal/Haram Matters
07 Jun

ANSWER: As long as it is written “halal” on these products, then no problem in consuming them.

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Is it a biddah as the one person makes dua loudly at the end of dawrah Quran?

Halal/Haram Matters
05 Jun

ANSWER: If the sheikh makes Duaa after the class, this is permissible. 

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I frm ……my fther lives in frnce,wrks in rsturnt as a chef.bt prblm is there is a mix of halal&haram food.sme vgtbles r halal&the meat is haram.obvsly he doesn’t eat those bt he cook those.now my qstn is will it be halal/haram?if haram wht shld I do?I’m studying in a vercity level so it’s nt pssble for me to earn now.& aftr my fthr’s death can I inherit his welth?he’s nt soislam frienndly.

Halal/Haram Matters, Inheritance, Jobs
05 Jun

ANSWER: Cooking pork and other haram food is prohibited. His income is haram for him but not for others and you can inherit him.  

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It is allowed from a restaurant which also cooks haram meat to be delivered vegetarian food. because I think that maybe they are the traces of haram meat. For example, if they use the same knife or board where haram meat was

Halal/Haram Matters
04 Jun

ANSWER: Ask them , and in case they use the same equipments then this is not permissible, but if not no problem to eat there, though I recommend that you don’t. 

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In India non Muslims woship their idols and offer them the food as prasad and then sometimes offer us. Is it permissible to eat sweets or something which they first offer to their gods? Some scholars says it is haram to eat food on which Allah’s name is not taken. If it is so then the things we buy from market can be haram too.

Halal/Haram Matters, Religions
29 May

ANSWER: As long as the food is halal and you are not participating with them in their celebrations, this is permissible. 

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I know in the Quran we learn that seafood is halal for us, but recently someone mentioned that basa fish may be haraam. I did a Google search which says: Eat any fish that has scales, and do not eat what does not have scales.” Imam Al-Baqir (a.s.) the claim is that basa fish has scales and so it is not permissible to eat. Can you clarify?

Halal/Haram Matters
28 May

ANSWER: This is baseless! All sea food is halal.

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For someone living in the west, even if they lower gaze but how can they do so in a class where the teacher is either a women or students sitting in sitting in front where someone has to look in order to pay attention to the board or teacher.

Character and Morals, Halal/Haram Matters
26 May

ANSWER: They must do their best and maintain lowering the gaze. 

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In a hadith Qudsi the prophet said at alhudaibiya it rained that day and Allah said one became a believer and one became a disbeliever cos 1 said the rain was a virtue and mercy of Allah while the other said it rained cos of such such a star so shall we believe in weather forecast for tomorrow and the next day?

Halal/Haram Matters
26 May

ANSWER: No problem as the weather forecast uses calculations and pictures from the satellite to determine what the weather could be like and this is not the same as fortune telling.

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Brother can you please kindly inform me if halal chicken and stunned chicken are cooked in the same oil, can we eat the chicken that is halal? There is a shop who cooks halal chicken but buy niblets and wings that are stunned, which is not halal and they cook it in the same oil. Is it permissable to eat the halal chicken from that shop?

Halal/Haram Matters
23 May

ANSWER: Stunning the chicken before slaughtering it doesn’t make it haram as long as the chickens was slaughtered while alive . 

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