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Is it permissible for a traveler in a land of disbelief to eat from food slaughtered by disbelievers?

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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, this questioner from America says: Is it permissible for me to eat from food slaughtered by disbelievers? He says: I am traveling there and I cannot find a place that sells halal food, so what should I do?

Answer:
Food that does not involve slaughtering animals is permissible from disbelievers and others. You eat rice, you eat rice, you eat fruits, you eat this; it is not required that it be from a Muslim. You eat from permissible food. As for meat, one looks at where its source is, and whether it was slaughtered with a lawful slaughter, and whether the slaughterers are from those whose slaughter is trusted, like Muslims, Jews, and Christians, the People of the Book, or from others who have no religion, the religion of disbelief and shirk (associating partners with Allah), in which case their slaughter is not trusted. Yes.
So eating meat is not obligatory, my brother. Leave the meat, or buy fish which does not require slaughter, or look, for example, at the Muslim communities; the communities have their own slaughterhouses, so you take from them. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [1901 -3022] هل يجوز للمسافر في بلاد الكفر أن يأكل من الطعام الذي يذبحه الكفار؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com

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