The ruling on providing food that the provider does not like as expiation for feeding
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Question:
Regarding the specific expiation of feeding, O Shaykh, is it permissible to provide a type of food that the provider does not like, while the person who eats it or receives it does like it?
Answer:
Allah the Exalted said:[Al-Baqarah 2:267] So he should not feed anyone but from the best of what he feeds his family. It is not the high-quality, superior food, nor the low-quality, inferior food, but rather the middle. This is what Allah made obligatory. [Al-Ma'idah 5:89] Yes.
Regarding the specific expiation of feeding, O Shaykh, is it permissible to provide a type of food that the provider does not like, while the person who eats it or receives it does like it?
Answer:
Allah the Exalted said:
And do not aim toward the defective therefrom, spending [from that] while you would not take it [yourself] except with closed eyes. And know that Allah is Free of need and Praiseworthy.
وَلَا تَيَمَّمُوا الْخَبِيثَ مِنْهُ تُنفِقُونَ وَلَسْتُم بِآخِذِيهِ إِلَّا أَن تُغْمِضُوا فِيهِ وَاعْلَمُوا أَنَّ اللَّهَ غَنِيٌّ حَمِيدٌfrom the average of that which you feed your [own] families
مِنْ أَوْسَطِ مَا تُطْعِمُونَ أَهْلِيكُمْ
Source
نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 03/006 — archive.org (3:53)
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