If you criticize the cook for not being good at cooking, does this fall under the prohibition against criticizing food?
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Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: If the cook is not good at cooking and I criticized him, but I did not criticize the food, does this fall under the prohibition?
Answer:
No, what is forbidden is that you criticize the food. As for criticizing the cook, saying he is not good, there is nothing wrong with that, there is nothing wrong with that. But criticizing the food, that is what is disliked. Yes.
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: If the cook is not good at cooking and I criticized him, but I did not criticize the food, does this fall under the prohibition?
Answer:
No, what is forbidden is that you criticize the food. As for criticizing the cook, saying he is not good, there is nothing wrong with that, there is nothing wrong with that. But criticizing the food, that is what is disliked. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [466 -954] إذا عبت طاهي الطعام بأنه لا يحسن طبخه، فهل يدخل في هذا النهي عن عيب الطعام؟ — youtube.com
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