Category : Eatables, drinks, beverages and food related verdicts

  • Permissibility of mirin used in sushi

    08 Mar 2023 Ref-No#: 4980

    Assalam alaikum, Is it permissible to consume sushi that contains mirin? Mirin is a rice wine. In its truest form (called “hon mirin”), mirin is the product of fermenting a mixture of steamed glutinous rice and cultured rice called koji in a bit of shochu, which is a dis...


  • The butcher prays or not?

    22 Feb 2023 Ref-No#: 4952

    Salam. We know that it is haram to eat meat slaughtered by someone who doesn’t pray at all. In my country, Bangladesh, there are a lot of people who claim themselves to be muslims, but they don’t pray at all or they pray on and off. So when I’ll go to a meat shop and I see the b...


  • paying someone for halal goods which were previously purchased with haram money

    25 Jan 2023 Ref-No#: 4582

    Asalamualaikum. I am a young man who lives with my parents. I have researched into many books of deen and something that I keep coming across is the devastating consequences of subsisting from money that was not acquired in a halal manner. As a result, I have stopped wearing clothing, and consumi...


  • Ethanol

    15 Oct 2021 Ref-No#: 3737

    السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته Is it permissible to drink fizzy drinks or to eat biscuits,ect. that contain ethanol? جزاك الله خيرا ...


  • Eating prawns

    27 Sep 2021 Ref-No#: 517

    Is it permissible to eat prawns? ...


  • Gold cutlery

    23 Sep 2021 Ref-No#: 3586

    Is it permissible to eat with cutlery that is gold in colour ...


  • Hanafis and Prawns

    16 Sep 2021 Ref-No#: 3560

    السلام عليكم ورحمةالله وبركاته In terms of Prawns. Is there any ruling in the hanafi school that permits it but stipulates that it cannot be ate for 3 consecutive days? This is something I heard from a few hanafis. Is there such a rule that something that ...


  • Delivering Haram Food

    24 Aug 2019 Ref-No#: 2071

    The customer places an order from a restaurant through the business website or app. The business offer a delivery service for the customer as the restaurant does not deliver. The business charges for delivery. The business pays for the food when they pick it up for the customer....


  • Regarding Drinking energetic drink

    21 Aug 2019 Ref-No#: 2148

    Salaam, I wanted to know if V Guarana energy drink and Redbull is halal as I have been told that it contains bulls sperm or semen. Can you find out if this is true and that it is permissible to drink. Jazaakallah ...


  • Prawns in the hanafi madhab — Is the opinion it is makruh a valid mainstream opinion?

    10 Jun 2019 Ref-No#: 1893

    Assalamalaikum, My question is in regard to the hanafi madhab, and prawns. Specifically prawns/shrimp and not lobster or crab or other such non-fish seafoods. I understand that there are two main positions within the hanafi madhab, with some saying halal as it qualifies as samak and...