{"id":23358,"date":"2021-12-15T14:28:53","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T14:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/?p=23358"},"modified":"2021-12-15T14:28:53","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T14:28:53","slug":"can-we-give-haraam-food-to-non-muslims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/can-we-give-haraam-food-to-non-muslims\/","title":{"rendered":"Can We Give Haraam Food to Non-Muslims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>Fatwa ID: 05596\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>Answered by: Maulana Sibghat Ullah<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong><u>Question:<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">I have a question can we give haraam food to non-Muslims? if we got something as a gift or something and found out it&#8217;s got carmines or something. should we throw it or give it to non-Muslims. So, the best is to throw it away?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><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=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong><u>Answer:<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">It is permissible to exchange gifts as it creates love and compassion among the community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">It is reported from Ayisha reported the Prophet said, &#8220;Give presents to one another, for a present removes grudges.<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[i]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">However, there is a Sharee principle \u201cAnything which is Haram to take is Haram to give.\u201d<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"#_edn2\" name=\"_ednref2\">[ii]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">So, what you cannot accept as a gift you cannot give it to others as a gift. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Further to this, A Muslim is required by Shariah to totally hate those things that Allah hates, and it is quite obvious that we would not feed someone something that we despise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">In short, it is not allowed to give haram gifts to anyone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Only Allah knows best.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Written by Maulana Sibghat Ullah<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Checked and approved by Mufti Mohammed Tosir Miah<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Darul Ifta Birmingham<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"#_ednref1\" name=\"_edn1\">[i]<\/a> Mishkat ul Masabeeh, Book of Business Transactions, Section 2<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"#_ednref2\" name=\"_edn2\">[ii]<\/a> Qawaid Fiqhiyyah, Page 78<\/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: 05596\u00a0 &nbsp; Answered by: Maulana Sibghat Ullah &nbsp; Question: &nbsp; I have a question can we give haraam food to non-Muslims? if we&#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\/23358"}],"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=23358"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23373,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23358\/revisions\/23373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}