The ruling on an electric insect-killing device in a fish shop
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The owner of a fish shop says: We are required by the municipality responsible for the district’s meat and fish shops to install the electric device that kills flies and insects by electrocution. If we do not do so, we will be fined. What is the ruling on this device? And what should be done regarding it?
Answer:
If this is a matter of dire necessity and you are obligated to do so, then there is nothing wrong with it. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The owner of a fish shop says: We are required by the municipality responsible for the district’s meat and fish shops to install the electric device that kills flies and insects by electrocution. If we do not do so, we will be fined. What is the ruling on this device? And what should be done regarding it?
Answer:
If this is a matter of dire necessity and you are obligated to do so, then there is nothing wrong with it. Yes.
Source
شرح كتاب المنتقى من أخبار المصطفى صلى الله عليه وسلم، بداية من باب بيان زوال تطهيره — islamhouse.com (57:12)
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