Ensuring that One’s Food is Halaal
Q: I have heard that since Saudi Arabia is a Muslim country, one may eat from any restaurant as all the food in the country is halaal. Is this correct?
Doubtful Foods & Drinks
Drinking luwak coffee
Q: I am wondering if coffee Luwak is halaal. It is from a civet animal that eats it & then cleaned & roasted.
Consuming lab grown and plant based meat
Q: What is the ruling on the consumption of:
a) Lab grown meat (chicken, beef etc.)
b) Plant-based meat
c) Plant-based meat with flavours different meats/flesh (a plant-based company named Oumph! developed a burger that tastes like human flesh)
Buying halaal meat from an outlet that sells haraam meat in the same fridge
Q: If you have halaal meat in the same fridge as non halaal meat in a shop. Is it against your religion or belief to buy it or can it be in the same fridge as long as it has not been opened and touched once sealed and certified halaal?
Buying halaal meat from Woolworths
Q: Can Muslims buy and consume the halaal meat from the halaal section of a Woolworths store?
Relying on a non-Muslim's word regarding halaal food
Q: I work with people who are not Muslim. One day they organized food and they said that it’s from a Muslim person. Do I go ahead and eat it or am I not allowed to trust them? Will the sin be on me if it’s not really halaal?
Buying food from a non-Muslim restaurant that gets its meat from a Muslim
Q: A restaurant is owned by a non-Muslim, but the chicken/mutton is supplied by a Muslim. Is the food halaal? Can a Muslim have the food cooked there?
Eating meat or chicken from a non-Muslim restaurant
Q: Is it permissible to eat meat or chicken from a non-Muslim restaurant whose non-Muslim owner says that his meat is halaal?
Eating bread that was treated with ethyl alcohol
Q: I live in Italy and all the sandwich bread I checked in the supermarket is “treated with ethyl alcohol”. Is this bread haraam or halaal?
Eating ice cream or drinking milkshake at a restaurant which is not halaal
Q: Can a Muslim eat (ice cream/desserts) or drink (milkshakes) at a restaurant which is not halaal?