Using a plate with a silver line around it
Q: Is it permissible to use plates that have a silver line around the plate (silver paint around the plate)?
Food and Drink
Finding a dead fish floating in the water
Q: If I find a fish already dead in the sea, will it be considered as carrion? Can I eat it?
Eating prasad from a Hindu
Q: Recently one of my Hindu friends knocked at my room door in the hostel and gave me a slice of apple. He said it is Prasad so I took it and kept it one side in my room and I didn't eat it... Did I commit a sin? One scholar told me that only eating meat is not allowed of Hindus... we can eat fruits or sweets. I am really confused.
Eating at a persons house whose income is haraam
Q: What to do if my friend invited me to his house for meals but his income is haram?
What should one do with the food that one takes out with a toothpick?
Q: If something is stuck in our teeths, after taking it out with toothpick, can we eat that?
Whey powder
Q: Is whey powder haraam?
Smoking cigarettes
Q: Is smoking Haraam or is it Makrooh?
Eating alligators
Q: Can we eat alligators?
Eating fruits with larvae
Q: Sometimes when we open plums (fruits), there are larvae. Is it permissible to eat these plums if we remove the larvae? Sometimes the larvae has left small balls of feces which are stuck to the plum and difficult to remove. Do we have to throw away these plums?
Leaving edible items open at night
Q: In respect of leaving something open overnight (without covering it), what is this confined to? Is it food only, or tablets also, or all edible items.