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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Do pre-packaged ready-made foods carry the ruling of using the utensils of disbelievers?

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Question:
Your Eminence the Shaykh! The questioner says: We know that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade us from using the utensils of the polytheists unless they are washed. So, is it permissible to use the canned goods that come to us from the disbelievers, which contain food ingredients?

Answer:
Allah has permitted us to eat their food in His Book. He the Exalted (Exalted and Majestic is He) says: "So eat from what is lawful for you"
the good thingsطَيِّبَاتِ
[Al-Baqarah 2:172]
and the food of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) is lawful for you
the food of those who were given the Scripture is lawful for you and your food is lawful for themأُوتُوا الْكِتَابَ حِلٌّ لَّكُمْ وَطَعَامُكُمْ حِلٌّ لَّهُمْ
[Al-Ma'idah 5:5]
and their food is lawful for us. So if the food of the People of the Book, the Jews and the Christians, comes to you and you do not know what is forbidden in it, it is lawful for you. However, if you know that this meat was slaughtered for other than Allah, or that it was slaughtered in a manner contrary to the Shari'ah, do not eat from it. If you are content with their food, their food is lawful. But if you wish to use their vessels, or if a person from the People of the Book comes to you, you wash them, as it was said: "wash them." He (peace and blessings be upon him) commanded that they be washed. Yes.
Source قناة «فضيلة الشيخ ابن باز Alsheikh Binbaz»، 128 معلبات الطعام الجاهز هل تأخذ حكم استعمال آنية الكفار؟ للإمام ابن باز — youtube.com

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