Examples of doubtful matters: whether a person should eat them, and the ruling on eating butter, cheese, and canned meats made in Western countries and lands of disbelief.

The Shaykh : And this hadith that explains the meaning of sin here actually resolves many matters that people ask about, especially in the present age. Take, for example, canned goods: canned meats, butter, and cheese made in Western countries, in lands of disbelief and misguidance, where they do not forbid what Allah and His Messenger have forbidden, and they do not follow the religion of truth. Men and women frequently ask: Is it permissible to eat these canned goods? Is it permissible to buy these meats that come frozen, a single piece from a slaughtered animal? Is it permissible to eat them or not? There is much questioning about such issues. Likewise, butter and cheese contain animal fats... and the slaughtered animal contains fats, for example, from pork, or perhaps it does not? It is not easy for every person of obligation to know the chemical composition of these things, nor is it possible for a person to know whether these animals were slaughtered according to the Shari'ah or killed by other means, in which case their ruling would be like that of a "dead animal." Some people try to find out, but not everyone is like that. So, is it permissible to eat canned meats? The detailed answer from the jurisprudential perspective is based on three aspects, but this detail is not easy, as we said earlier, for every person of obligation to know. The detail, as will follow, is this: If these canned meats or these frozen animals were slaughtered according to the Shari'ah and not killed by other means, such as being struck by a weapon or stabbed in the head or elsewhere, and if they were slaughtered by the People of the Book, then eating them is lawful. This is because Allah (Mighty and Majestic) says: meaning: their slaughters. The meaning of is: their slaughters, meaning what they slaughtered according to the Shari'ah. So, these canned meats, if the animals were slaughtered according to the Shari'ah, then eating them is lawful. If they were killed by other means, then eating them is forbidden. And if we do not know, which is the reality for the majority of people of obligation, then this hadith applies: Or rather, the previous hadith we mentioned earlier applies: Leave the canned goods as long as you do not know the truth of their matter, and do not take from them. Instead, eat, for example, fresh sardines, which are lawful and there is no issue with them. Likewise, if we do not know whether the butter contains animal fats... or contains pork fats, the matter revolves around the three aspects mentioned above. If we know it is from cow's milk and contains nothing else, then eating it is lawful. If we know it contains some of the forbidden animal fats, then eating it is forbidden. If we do not know whether it is one or the other, Leave what you doubt for what you do not doubt. This hadith is from this category. A person finds himself questioning whether it contains what it contains, so .