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24,89723/Rabi al-awwal/1420 , 07/July/1999

Eating meat when it is uncertain whether it has been cooked with utensils used for pork

Question: 678

Is it permissible to eat meat dishes at non muslim restuarants where pork and/or alcohol is served. It is not known whether the meat was slaughtered Islamically or not. However the meat and the pork are stored in the same refrigerator and/or cooked using the same utensils.

Answer

Praise be to Allah, and blessings and peace be upon the Messenger of Allah. To proceed:

What the Muslim should do if this is the case, is to avoid eating in these restaurants. He should look for halaal meat in halaal places, even if that is a little difficult for him, because of the importance in Islam of ensuring that food comes from good sources.  

And Allaah knows best.

Source

Sheikh Muhammed Salih Al-Munajjid

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