Are eating kunafa and qatayef and the like, and the Ramadan lantern, considered innovations in religion, thereby making them forbidden?
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The basic ruling concerning foods and its lantern is permissibility ( حلّ ). These are customs whose meanings are considered, and they are not prohibited unless they involve a -forbidden element.
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