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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The Ruling on Eating Sea Animals

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Question:
Is it permissible to eat all sea animals, meaning everything that lives in the sea?

Answer:
The first is correct: everything that lives in the sea, that is, anything that does not live except in the sea, is lawful, yes.
Lawful to you is game from the sea and its foodأُحِلَّ لَكُمْ صَيْدُ الْبَحْرِ وَطَعَامُهُ
[Al-Ma'idah 5:96]
This is a general statement: everything that does not live except in the sea is lawful.

The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
Source بلوغ المرام [12] — alfawzan.live (1:03:18)

The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.

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