If we do not know whether the meat in the restaurant is local or imported, we ask the owner, who may be a liar, and he says: It is local.

The questioner : A question from Abdullah: We do not know about the restaurant; do they have meat that is not...? Is it local from Kuwait, slaughtered in Kuwait, or imported? So we ask him, is this meat from outside or inside? Sometimes they lie when they see us bearded, and say: This is meat from Kuwait, even though it is meat from abroad. The doubt is not about the type of meat, whether it is slaughtered or not; the doubt is whether this is imported or local? That is all.

The Shaykh : I think this is not what the man said!

The questioner : This is his intention.

Another questioner : My intention is, Shaykh, that the meat present in Kuwait that comes from abroad has doubts about it.

Another questioner : ... Let us say there are doubts, what I said I said... .

The Shaykh : He is repeating the same words, the same words again, so you are building while he is demolishing.

The questioner : It is the same as what you are saying now, there is nothing else in Kuwait.

The Shaykh : ... He is saying that the imported meat has doubts about it.

The questioner : No, regarding this, the second inquiry comes now, but only.

The Shaykh : I am saying no, why? He is saying it this way.

The questioner : No, Shaykh, I mean that is not the meaning of "no" here.

The Shaykh : What was it...?

The questioner : I mean yes. But the restaurants now... they say they write "fresh meat."

The Shaykh : Correct.

The questioner : And sometimes they drink... I mean the meat is not fresh.

Another questioner : One is fresh and the rest.

The questioner : So we... ask in this way, but what comes from abroad, again this is approximately what Abu al-Walid said is the most common among us, not slaughtered, especially the chicken, I mean.

The Shaykh : Okay, I am not saying I understood your presentation, but part of my understanding is that this presentation is not that presentation.

The questioner: No, he.

The Shaykh : And indeed that presentation was repeated again, so here the imported meat has doubts about it.

The questioner : ... My brother, you are in the same case as them, your question is what we said or something else?

Another questioner : The same, the same.

The Shaykh : In any case, the answer is known, this exists in all countries, if it is now predominant in the mind that as we said earlier, meaning, it is predominant in the mind that when you ask him, is this imported, not frozen now or not frozen, imported and local, you ask him, is this imported or local? He says: No, by Allah, it is local, okay, we see if we are confident in his words or not, if we are confident in his words, then it is on his responsibility and on his guarantee; so it is lawful, and if he says: No, this is imported; in my hand, imported, like the brother here said, what percentage? Ninety, meaning killed and not slaughtered, the ruling in this case is very clear.

The questioner : Because, Shaykh, they brought us chicken written on it "Slaughtered according to the Islamic method."

The Shaykh : This is very well known, yes, this, my brother, is completely known in all countries, even that... they wrote on the fish, "Slaughtered the fish according to the Islamic method"!!
We return, Professor, since the matter is like this; it is not permissible to approve this with the cause I presented earlier, which is that this is food for the people, so if we deprive them of this food, what would we be? We would have harmed them. I believe that this is not permissible Islamically, especially in a country like your country, so our Lord (Mighty and Majestic) has made the good of the lawful abundant through many ways, so instead of us approving this forbidden thing, why? So that we can import the lawful in a way that suffices all the people of the country, we directly cut off the root of evil, we cut off the head of the snake, and then we sit and direct the planning of lawful food, add to that that you are people of the coast, you have from this fish what suffices you, and you are not as is the case in the land countries, they do not have from meats what they eat except the dry ones!
In Dubai, it must have reached you that they formed a committee and sent it to some countries, perhaps Austria, and they send from there the chicken and it is in plastic bags, and written on it that this is under the responsibility of the Islamic bank, and indeed you see the traces of slaughter in it are very clear, so this is a solution to the problem in a way that has no violation of the Shari'ah, and no harm, also, to the people as we imagine in your previous presentation that if we cut off from them this forbidden livelihood, we would have harmed them, so there is no benefit here that obliges us to approve this forbidden thing until what? We compensate them from the lawful, but it is obligatory immediately that we strive to compensate with the lawful while cutting off the root of the forbidden; because as he said (peace and blessings be upon him) in the authentic hadith: , this in addition to his saying (Blessed and Exalted is He): , so we are in deep error in misguidance that some of us imagine that the individual Muslim or the group of Muslims or the Muslim state if it fears Allah (Mighty and Majestic) in its religion, and obeys the Shari'ah of its Lord; then it will be afflicted with misery and hardship and fatigue, and there will be no way out for it, even though the verse explicitly states the opposite, .
I often remind people of this verse, and I am sorry that I am forced to remind them of such a verse; because this reminder reminds me of the tragedy in which the Muslim world is, which is their heedlessness from their religion, the rich man hardly hears the admonition and reminder that it is not permissible for you to put your money in the bank, because if you abstain from taking the riba from it from what they call by a name other than its name, interest, but you know that the bank will invest this money in the way of riba, so you are assisting in that, so you violate the saying of Allah (Mighty and Majestic): , as you violate some of the explicit hadiths that prohibit cooperation in evil, like the hadith mentioned earlier with some of our brothers . I remembered this hadith earlier because one of them told me that one of the sheikhs in Saudi Arabia issued a fatwa that you, the employee in the bank; if your work in the bank does not directly deal with riba, then your work is permissible, and he gave as an example of that, you are a clerk, so I said, Glory to Allah! As if these sheikhs were created to support any deviation in the ruling, this one who writes, what does he write? He writes riba; so he is cooperating with the one who established this huge department that deals with the forbidden, open riba, so I say, sorry, I am sometimes forced to remind the Muslims of the verse of the Lord of the Worlds , directly one of them says: Where am I to go with my money?! If I put it at home, I fear for it from theft, I fear for myself from being killed; so he thinks purely materially as the European man thinks, who does not believe in Allah or the Last Day, and does not forbid what Allah and His Messenger have forbidden; this is very regrettable, even though this noble verse is in our hands!
There are strange hadiths that illustrate the extent of the impact of a Muslim’s fear of his Lord, and how our Lord (Mighty and Majestic) makes things subservient to this God-fearing Muslim that He does not usually make subservient to people; that is, in precise jurisprudential terms: Allah (Mighty and Majestic) breaks the system of the universe in order to preserve the wealth of this Muslim. The system of the universe about which our Lord (Mighty and Majestic) said regarding this system: . We have some incidents and evidence of this. For example, he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: . The cloud was moving like this, for instance, and then it turned in this direction. This man who heard the voice walked with the cloud for a short distance, and then the cloud discharged its load of rain onto a land, and he looked upon it. He found a man working with his pickaxe. He greeted him, as if to say, for example, “Peace be upon you, and O so-and-so.” The man was surprised because he knew him as a stranger; from where did he know his name? He said to him: “I was walking in the desert, and I heard a voice from the cloud saying to it: ‘Water the land of so-and-so.’ So I came with the cloud until it brought me to you, and I knew that you were the one intended.” Here is the point: by what did he deserve this care from Allah (Blessed and Exalted is He)? He said: “By Allah, I do not know, except that I have this land, so I plant it, and then I divide its produce and harvest into three parts: a part I spend on myself and my family, a part I return to my land, and the third part I spend on the poor and needy around me.” He said: “That is it.” So look now, have you ever heard that Allah (Mighty and Majestic) made the sky subservient to a specific land? No, but this man, because he feared Allah, Allah (Mighty and Majestic) singled him out with special care from Him, distinct from all other people.
Of this same nature is what came in this hadith in "Sahih Muslim," and of this same nature is what came in "Sahih al-Bukhari": that a man needed some money as a loan, so he went to a rich man and said to him: “O so-and-so, lend me one hundred dinars.” He said: “Bring a witness.” He said: “Allah is the witness.” He said: “Bring a guarantor.” He said: “Allah is the guarantor.” A man, as they say in our region of Sham, apparently he was blessed, and by “blessed” they mean pure-hearted, good-natured, not knowing deception, not knowing treachery. “Do you want a witness? I have no witness, Allah is sufficient as a witness between us. Do you want a guarantor? I have no guarantor, Allah is the guarantor.” And it seems that the matter was as it is said: “Birds fall according to their kind,” that this rich man was also blessed. So he accepted this answer from the borrower, saying: “Since Allah is the witness and Allah is the guarantor, go ahead.” He gave him one hundred gold dinars, and they agreed on a day for repayment. The man took the dinars and set off for trade. The appointed day came while he was far from the town; what did he do? By Allah, He blessed him in his wealth, and he took the one hundred dinars and stuffed them into a piece of wood, dug a hole, packed them in tightly, and sealed it. He came to the seashore and said: “O Allah, You were the witness, and You were the guarantor,” and he threw the wood into the sea. This is madness, but this man was overcome by his scrupulousness for Allah (Mighty and Majestic) and his love for fulfilling the promise he had made to him, and there was no one but Allah as a witness, and Allah as the guarantor. And our Lord (Mighty and Majestic) is capable of everything. He commanded the waves to take this wood from this shore to the distant shore where the rich man was. The rich man went out to inspect the shore of the man who had lent him one hundred dinars, and waited a little. Then he saw this wood being tossed by the waves, sometimes from far away, sometimes from near, until it came close to him. He took it to his house, and there he broke it open, and the dinars fell to the ground. He was amazed. After a period, the borrower came. Look, again, the goodness of heart, complete goodness of heart. So he counted out for him one hundred dinars. He did not rely on that incident, because it was an extraordinary event, and it is not possible for a person to rely on it. He presented the one hundred dinars to him. And look also at the goodness of this rich man; he told him the story. He said to him: “By Allah, my story is such and such. I went out on the appointed day to wait for you, and I found this wood, took it, and broke it open, and there were one hundred dinars inside.” He said: “By Allah, shall I tell you the truth? When the appointed time caught up with me and I could not present it to you at the specified time, I did such and such. The wood is the one I threw, relying on Allah.” He said to him: “So Allah has fulfilled it for you; may Allah bless you in your wealth.” What could be a greater help from Allah to His God-fearing servants than this help?
And it may be of this same nature is the story of the three who took refuge in a cave, as he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: . A rock: meaning a mountain in a large cave. The second one said: .
All of this is support from Allah (Mighty and Majestic) for His God-fearing servants, in verification of the saying of the Lord of the Worlds: . We are in need of this kind of upbringing to be truly believers, if Allah wills.

The questioner: We can deduce from that that, without exerting the means and preparing the conditions to provide new meats, ... we begin ... not with these meats.

The Shaykh : It is necessary.

The questioner : May Allah reward you with good.