{"id":22975,"date":"2021-10-17T09:52:47","date_gmt":"2021-10-17T09:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/?p=22975"},"modified":"2021-10-17T09:52:47","modified_gmt":"2021-10-17T09:52:47","slug":"is-monster-energy-drink-halal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/is-monster-energy-drink-halal\/","title":{"rendered":"Is &#8216;Monster Energy Drink&#8217; Halal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>Fatwa ID: 05488<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>Answered by: <span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Shaykh Shafiur Rahman<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong><u>Question:<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">My question is if &#8216;monster energy drink&#8217; is halal or not,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">is there anything haram in the ingredients or is it halal to drink?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong><u>In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong><u>Answer:<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">In principle, food (except meat) and drinks generally are all deemed to be permissible in the first instance unless it is something that has been prohibited by shari\u2019a because Allah explained to us those things that are haram; as Allah says: {<em>\u2026while He has explained in detail to you what He has forbidden you, excepting that to which you are compelled.<\/em>} [Quran 6:119]&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">The company lists the ingredients for a monster energy drink on its website <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.monsterenergy.com\/products\/monster-energy\">https:\/\/www.monsterenergy.com\/products\/monster-energy<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">I cannot see any haram ingredients in the list and therefore it will be permissible to drink. However, as with all food and drinks we should try to avoid them in quantities and regularity that may cause clear harm to our health.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Written by Shaykh Shafiur Rahman<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Checked and approved by Mufti Mohammed Tosir Miah<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Darul Ifta Birmingham<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fatwa ID: 05488 Answered by: Shaykh Shafiur Rahman &nbsp; Question: &nbsp; My question is if &#8216;monster energy drink&#8217; is halal or not, is there anything&#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\/22975"}],"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=22975"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23004,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22975\/revisions\/23004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}