If you are invited to a meal at a Christian’s home, is it permissible to eat his food, when you do not know whether he invoked the name of Allah over the slaughter or not?

Question:
May Allah reward you. Honorable Shaykh, this questioner says: If I am invited to a meal at a Christian’s home, is it permissible to eat his food, when I do not know whether he invoked the name of Allah over the slaughter or not?

Answer:
The default is permissibility, which refers to the slaughtered animals. So, as long as you do not know that it was not slaughtered according to the law, you may eat from it based on the default. And if you have scrupulousness about it, eat from the food, eat from the rice, eat from whatever, and leave the meat if you have doubt about it, or if you are uncertain, leave it. Leave what causes doubt for what does not cause doubt. Eat from the vegetables, eat from the rice, eat from the food. Yes.