The Ruling on Eating the Mermaid Fish
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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. Some specialists in marine fish mention that there is a fish whose head is like a woman's head, and it has hair and a face like a woman's face. Is it permissible to eat it? It is called the mermaid. There is a sea creature, a type of fish in the shape of a human being, which they call the sea person. Every sea catch is eaten.
Answer:
Even if it is in the shape of a man or a woman. Yes.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. Some specialists in marine fish mention that there is a fish whose head is like a woman's head, and it has hair and a face like a woman's face. Is it permissible to eat it? It is called the mermaid. There is a sea creature, a type of fish in the shape of a human being, which they call the sea person. Every sea catch is eaten.
Answer:
Even if it is in the shape of a man or a woman. Yes.
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