Buying green bananas before they ripen
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner says: Is it permissible to buy green bananas, knowing that they are not yet ripe, but they will become ripe in a day or two? Is it permissible to buy green bananas, knowing that they are not yet ripe, but they will become ripe after that in a day or two, given the heat of the place?
Answer:
My brother, what do you want with green bananas? I would buy ripe bananas. If it is something to be eaten immediately, buy ripe ones. But if it is something to be eaten in two or three days, there is no objection. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner says: Is it permissible to buy green bananas, knowing that they are not yet ripe, but they will become ripe in a day or two? Is it permissible to buy green bananas, knowing that they are not yet ripe, but they will become ripe after that in a day or two, given the heat of the place?
Answer:
My brother, what do you want with green bananas? I would buy ripe bananas. If it is something to be eaten immediately, buy ripe ones. But if it is something to be eaten in two or three days, there is no objection. Yes.
Source
المنتقى من أخبار سيد المرسلين 26-06-1438 هـ — af.org.sa (1:03:58)
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