Star fish & eels
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. I thought what could be a better way to get a little khusoosi dua from hazrat. That is why I wrote to hazrat. Please reply and remember this sinful slave in your pious duas.
The link to this humble servant's answer is: http://www.mufti-online.net/eating-eels.html
Faizal Riza
Melbourne, Australia
17/10/2012
A: Jazakallah for bringing this to my attention. I was under the impression that the eel did not have a backbone and gills. After checking up some of the encyclopaedias we have discovered that it has gills and a backbone. Hence, it comes under the category of fish, therefore permissible. Starfish however is not a fish, hence not permissible for consumption.
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