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Question: What kind of marine animals are Halal?
Answer: It is not permissible to eat from marine animals anything except fish that has scale; shrimp is considered from that category [of permissible sea animals]. But other than fish, like lobster, and similarly the fish that does not have scale is forbidden.
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Question: Is it permissible to eat lobster, crayfish, and snails?
Answer: It is not permissible to eat from marine animals anything except fish that has scale; shrimp is considered from that category [of permissible sea animals]. But other than fish, like lobster, and similarly the fish that does not have scale is forbidden.
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Question: Is it permissible to use, in our foods, oils derived from fish that are forbidden to us? What about using such oils for other matters?
Answer: It is not permissible to use such oils for cooking but using them for any other purposes is permissible.
Eating & Drinking
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Question: Is it permissible to use, in our foods, oils derived from fish that are forbidden to us? What about using such oils for other matters?
Answer: It is not permissible to use such oils for cooking and eating but using them for any other purposes is permissible, e.g as an emollient for the skin.
Halal & Haram Foods
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Question: Can we eat a fish that has died in water?
Answer: It is Haram to eat fish that has died in water, if the fish died in the fishing net then its permissible to eat.
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Question: Can I eat fish in a non-Muslim restaurant?
Answer: You must make sure that it is a fish that has scales, even though its scales may have fallen off due to some incident, and one is confident that the fish was caught alive in the water or that it died in the fishing net in the water, which is the usual case, otherwise you cannot consume it
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Question: If I am unsure whether a fish is from the type which has scales or not, is it permissible for me to consume it?
Answer: When there is a doubt of the type of fish, then it is not permissible,
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Question: At times we find the name or picture of fish on the cans and come to know that the fish is a scale fish. So, is it permissible for us to rely on the name or the picture in determining the category of fish, knowing well that a wrong statement of this kind would put the manufacturers in great loss or even more serious [situation] than just a loss?
Answer: If one is satisfied it is the truth, it is permissible to act upon it.
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Question: Is it permissible to buy a fish from a Muslim who is not a Shi‘a while we have no knowledge whether it is from the category of scale fish or not?
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Answer: It is permissible to buy it but one cannot eat it unless he makes sure that it is from the category of scale fish.
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