{"id":17261,"date":"2020-10-23T19:11:13","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T19:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/?p=17261"},"modified":"2020-10-23T19:11:13","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T19:11:13","slug":"what-is-the-ruling-of-saying-bismillah-before-consuming-haram-meat-when-one-is-compelled-to-eat-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/what-is-the-ruling-of-saying-bismillah-before-consuming-haram-meat-when-one-is-compelled-to-eat-it\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is the Ruling of Saying Bismillah Before Consuming Haram Meat When One Is Compelled to Eat It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><strong>Fatwa ID: 04246<\/strong><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<strong><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">Answered by:&nbsp;Maulana&nbsp;Mohammad Ahsan Osmani<\/span><\/span><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><b><u>Question<\/u><\/b><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">What is the ruling of saying Bismillah before consuming haram meat when one is compelled to eat it due to fear of losing their life out of starvation?<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n\t<strong><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">\u0628\u0650\u0633\u0652\u0645\u0650 \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647\u0650 \u0627\u0644\u0631\u0651\u064e\u062d\u0652\u0645\u0646\u0650 \u0627\u0644\u0631\u0651\u064e\u062d\u0650\u064a\u0652\u0645<\/span><\/span><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><b><u>In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful<\/u><\/b><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><b><u>Answer:<\/u><\/b><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">Allah \u062a\u0639\u0627\u0644\u0649 says, &ldquo;so whoever is forced (to consume that which is prohibited) by necessity, (and they eat) neither to fulfil one&rsquo;s desires nor transgress the limits, then there is no sin upon him&hellip;&rdquo; (Surah Baqarah: v. 173). Mufti Shafi Usmani \u0631\u062d\u0645\u0647 \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647 states regarding the explanation of this verse: &ldquo;Here, the eating of things forbidden even under a situation of compulsion (idtirar) has not been made lawful as such by the noble Qur&#39;an, instead, the expression used is \u0644\u0627 \u0627\u062b\u0645 \u0639\u0644\u064a\u0647 (there is no sin on him) which means that these things <b>continue to be haram as they are, but the sin of using what is haram has been forgiven because the eater has done so under the compulsion of necessity.&rdquo; <\/b><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">(M&rsquo;aariful Quran: v. 1, p. 436 [Maktaba-e-Darul-&rsquo;Uloom])<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">Furthermore, scholars explicitly mention that it is impermissible to recite bismillah upon haram food <\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">(Hashiyah Tahtawi: p. 6 [Qadeemi Kutub Khana]; Raddul Muhtar: v. 9, p. 490 [Maktaba Imdadia]; Fatawa Hindiya: v. 5, p. 416 [DKI]),<\/span><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"> thus it is <b>prohibited<\/b> to recite bismillah upon haram meat even if one is compelled to eat it due to fear of losing one&rsquo;s life (out of extreme hunger).<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><b>&nbsp;<\/b><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">Only Allah knows best<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">Written by Maulana Mohammad Ahsan Osmani<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">Checked and approved by Mufti Mohammed Tosir Miah<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">Darul Ifta Birmingham<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fatwa ID: 04246 Answered by:&nbsp;Maulana&nbsp;Mohammad Ahsan Osmani &nbsp; Question &nbsp; What is the ruling of saying Bismillah before consuming haram meat when one is compelled&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17261"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17261"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17329,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17261\/revisions\/17329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}