Food and Drink

Q: Our Milkman uses Oxytocin for more production of milk, by which more milk is produced than regular one. Kindly do let me know is consuming such milk is Halal?

Q: With regard to the current controversy regarding the chicken industry please advise on the following: is it permissible to eat at a restaurant that serves chicken of which there is a difference of opinion about, if you consume the other dishes and not the chicken?

Q: Please can you tell me would this cognac oil be considered Halaal for use in beverages or any other products? 

• This cognac oil is a key ingredient found in a flavour.
• The dosage of the cognac oil when in the flavour is 0.04%.
• The dosage of the cognac oil in the flavour after it has been added to the beverage is 0.00026% and this beverage product is ready to drink

How this Cognac Oil is made

Cognac Oil is also known as 'Wine Lees Oil' or 'Weinhefeoel' (in German). Produced as a by product from the distillation of Cognac (Brandy). It is present in Cognac to the amount of about 2 mg. The aromatic substances contained in cognac oil derived partly from the activities of the particular yeast fungus used, partly from the type of grapes fermented.

The oil is obtained by the steam distillation of the reside of grape tissue and fungus precipitate after fermentation (and distillation) of the alcoholic beverage.

Q: 

1. Is it permissible to eat ONLY CHIPS at a restaurant that sells haraam meat?
2. Some people ,when they eat at a restaurant then they lift up both their legs and they place both their legs on the chair and they sit by the table and chairs!!! A certain Mufti told us to sit in this way in Medina Munawarrah at one of the restaurants where he only bought chips and we only ate the chips with their sauces!!! 
3. At which restaurants may a person eat in Port Elizabeth And Mayfair-Fordsburg?

Q:

1. Is KFC halaal?
2. Is Mcdonalds halaal?
3. Is Earlybird chickens halaal?
4. Is Rainbow chickens halaal?
5. Is Mochachoes halaal?

Q: I would like to know if it is permissible to smoke weed as it doesn’t really intoxicate you but rather it relaxes you. In that state you understand the difference between right & wrong.

Q: Hazrat, I met you last year around July when I was in South Africa. I live in Australia. Hazrat, I teach in a  madrasa and run a fatwa website. The reason I am writing is that I wrote a fatwa on eating eels and later I found that my answer is contrary to your fatwa. Hence, I am writing so that you can let me know if my answer is correct or not. If it is not correct, then I will change it immediately. If it is correct then I hope to get khusoosi dua from you.

Q: Someone told me that if I pick up the crumbs etc. from the table/dastarkhaan then one will get pious kids. Is this true? And does this appear in some Hadith or something?

Q: A huge crises is arising on the youth of this ummath which deals with the consumption of monster energy drinks. I personally have seen a lot of muslim youth "going crazy" on this monster drinks. Is it halaal? Is there any symbolism behind it? What is the Ulamas view regarding this matter?

Q: Someone told me that the covering of the head when eating and going to the toilet is an etiquette and not a sunnah. Is this true? If it is true then by doing it in abundance, will it become bid'ah?