Ingredients and Additives
101 questions
What is the ruling on consuming foods available in European markets that contain ingredients of unknown origin, such as mollusks or the fatty substance E471, when it is not clear whether they are permissible (halal) or forbidden (haram)?
What is the ruling on eating bread kneaded in a machine that previously kneaded — without being washed — sweets containing alcohol?
Is dried, glycerine-treated raisin halal?
Is it permissible to use creams that contain alcohol, such as Jergens cream, and how can one determine if the alcohol has transformed into another substance, and is it necessary to abstain from using all creams and perfumes and suffice with musk and oud oil?
What is the ruling on using alcohol-based perfumes, what are the ingredients that might be prohibited, and how can a Muslim verify the components of perfumes if they are unclear?
What is the ruling on consuming foods that contain red dyes extracted from a type of beetle that feeds on red berries?
What is the ruling on eating chocolate (Snickers, Mars, KitKat)? Does it contain pig derivatives? And what is the ruling on drinking Pepsi and Coca-Cola? Do they contain a percentage of alcohol?
What is the ruling on a Muslim living in a foreign country consuming foods that contain small amounts of pork fat or alcohol, given the existence of a fatwa that permits this if the quantity of the unlawful substance does not change the color, taste, or smell of the lawful substance?
What is the ruling on consuming food products that contain additives suspected of being made from pork or alcohol, or whose source is unknown? And does the responsibility fall upon the importer or the consumer?
Is it true that if a drunkard eats the meat of a pilgrim, it will make him stop drinking?
Is it permissible to eat meat marinated in a sauce containing alcohol if the husband believes that the alcohol evaporates with fire and becomes permissible, knowing there is potential for family discord if he is confronted?
What should I, as the son of a father who sells alcohol and rejects advice, do?
Is it forbidden to eat processed foods containing food additives with codes such as E120, E124, E471, E472, if they are extracted from pigs, insects, or alcohol, or is it permissible based on the fatwa that allows what contains a small percentage of alcohol?
Is yeast bread permissible, knowing that yeast secretes alcohol during bread making, and that a group of scholars holds that any product in whose production alcohol is used is forbidden, regardless of whether the alcohol evaporates?
Must a husband prevent his wife from visiting her family who drink alcohol, eat unslaughtered meat, do not pray regularly, deny some fundamental tenets of the religion, and advocate matters contrary to Islamic law, knowing that the wife is newly committed to religious observance and he fears for her from their influence?
What is the ruling of Islamic law regarding a wife remaining with her husband who sells alcohol, given her disapproval and condemnation of his action, and that she has a daughter with him? And should she leave him?
Is it permissible to go with one's husband and daughter to a hotel to spend Eid day with family, where the family will sit in open areas for eating and children's play, knowing that I usually apologize for not going?
What is the ruling on straightening a man's hair using oily and greasy substances to make it soft and flowing?
Is it permissible to wipe one's hands with a perfumed wipe containing a percentage of alcohol before eating, as is customary on an airplane?
Is taking out a percentage of the money from alcohol considered purification of it, and thus would it become permissible for us to eat and drink from the food and drink of one who does so, or does it remain part of unpurified money?
What is the ruling on the prayer of one who has perfumed themselves with a fragrance or cosmetic product whose contents are unknown and which may contain volatile alcohol that does not remain on clothes?
What is the ruling on eating at a club restaurant subsidized by revenues that include the sale of alcohol, given that the questioner is unaware of a unified account for these revenues?
Is it permissible to consume food products that contain "chicken fat" or "fat" only, knowing that most slaughter in European countries is not halal?
Is it permissible to consume products containing animal derivatives that are not ritually slaughtered (non-meat), such as enzymes, colorings, and flavorings, especially when it is difficult to find a halal alternative in foreign countries?