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What are plant and animal rennet and the regulations for their use?

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Rennet is pure and edible if it comes from an animal that has been lawfully slaughtered (Dhabihah). It is not to be eaten if it comes from a pig, or from a dead animal other than a pig, according to the majority of scholars, while the Hanafis permitted it.

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