Giving out food that the giver does not like as expiation for feeding
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Question:
He asks regarding the expiation of feeding: Is it permissible to give out a type of food that the giver does not like, while the person who eats it does like it?
Answer:
Allah (Exalted and Majestic) said:[Al-Ma'idah 5:89]. As for the thing that you do not desire because of its badness, if you do not desire it because of its badness, it is not permissible for you to give it out. Allah the Exalted said: "Nor shall you aim to give out of it the bad" [Al-Baqarah 2:267], and the bad is the defective. However, if the food is good, but it is not the custom of the giver to eat it, and it is the custom of the one for whom it is given and the one who receives it to accept it and eat it, then there is no harm in that. Yes.
He asks regarding the expiation of feeding: Is it permissible to give out a type of food that the giver does not like, while the person who eats it does like it?
Answer:
Allah (Exalted and Majestic) said:
from the average of that which you feed your [own] families
مِنْ أَوْسَطِ مَا تُطْعِمُونَ أَهْلِيكُمْspending [from that] while you would not take it [yourself] except with closed eyes
تُنفِقُونَ وَلَسْتُم بِآخِذِيهِ إِلَّا أَن تُغْمِضُوا فِيهِ
Source
نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 02/278 — archive.org (7:33)
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