Shellac
Q: Is it permissible to consume shellac which is typically being used as a glazing agent in sweets and chocolates?
Food and Drink
Calamari
Q:
1. Is calamari makrooh or haraam in the Hanafi madhab?
2. If food has been touched or contaminated by calamari, will that make the food makrooh or haraam?
3. Also, if one has to eat calamari will he be sinful?
Drinking and selling coke
Q: Kindly explain the ruling of drinking coke as well as selling it.
Eating with the left hand
Q: Why in Islam you are not allowed to eat or drink with the left hand? Is it mentioend in any hadith?
Skittles
Q: Are Skittles (-fruits) halaalh or haraam?
Drinking caffeine drinks
Q: Can I drink cold drinks that contains caffeine?
Enquiring about food given by people who are involved in bid'aat
Q: I reside in Kashmir. Here our neighbours usually send raw meat or rice preparations to each other. Some people among them are those who go to dargahs etc. Is it necessary to enquire from them about in whose name they have prepared these rice preparations or sacrificed the animals before eating it or accepting it. Also it may not be possible every time to ask them in whose name they have sacrificed the animal etc.
Drinking water after eating food
Q: Can we drink water or tea after eating food because I heard that it is not good for the health if one drinks water.
Being forced to drink wine
Q: If someone was told to do something haram under force. Example, drinking wine and if they didn't they would be killed, would it be permissible to do the haram deed?
Eating food that was fried in contaminated oil
Q: Is this permissible to eat the fried things which are halal and cooked in the oil in which some non halal things are already cooked before?