Food, Drink & Animals

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Ethyl alcohol on bread surface
Assalamu alaykum, I live in Italy and a lot of the bread sold in shops is usually treated with ethyl alcohol on the surface, as to maintain the freshness of the bread for a long time. Ethyl alcohol is not listed in the ingredients of the bread, which are all usually halal, but it's written…
August 12, 2024
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Black Ivory Coffee
The black ivory coffee beans are extracted from plants and then they are fed to an elephant and after the elephant’s digestive food processing, the beans come out as baked beans which are extracted from the elephant’s waste, people use these coffee beans to make coffee after the beans have been thoroughly cleaned. So basically…
July 8, 2024
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Eat at a 5 Star Hotel Where Alcohol is Served
Assalamu Alaikum my question is that i live in India and is it permissible to eat at five star hotel where alcohol is also served. In some 5 star hotels alcohol is served separately in other room or they have created bar separately and in some hotels they serve alcohol in same place like the…
July 4, 2024
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Eating outside food
Salams, I just wanted to know what are the affects of eating outside food on your imaan. The thing is I am trying to explain to a friend about how everything you eat has an affect on your imam for ex yes eating outside food is permissible but it has an affect on your imaan…
June 30, 2024
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Haram Food in the house
Assalamulakum Warahmatulahi wabarakatu, my name is (removed for privacy) and I was wondering if it permissible to have haram food in the house.
May 20, 2024
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About fatwa malta
Can I drink which is malta. And has no alcohol and doesn't intoxicated . But the company is a liquor company who sells bear haram items. But the malta has no alcohol and doesn't intoxicated. Dose this make the malta haram or halal
February 22, 2022
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Is drinking KVASS halal?
Hello, I read on the internet that drinking KVASS (a russian drink) wasn't haram, can anyone confirm or deny it? here is some background about KVASS: - kvass contains no more than 1.5% of alcohol by volume. - It is also generally considered to be a nonalcoholic beverage and is drunk by children of all…
January 10, 2022
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Is it permissible to touch pigs?
Assalamu Alykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakathu. My question is that, are pigs permissible to touch. I already know that dogs cannot be touched as they are 'najees' or impure. And I know that pigs are haram to eat. But my question is if one is permitted to touch them, as a person who grazes them.…
December 12, 2021
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Artificial Meat
Q1) Is meat that is created in a lab and is synthetic meat halal? Q2) Is meat that is created from steam cells halal
November 3, 2021
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