Ruling on Eating Marine Animals
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Your Eminence! Allah has made two types of dead animals permissible for us: locusts and fish from the sea. Is everything in the sea permissible, O Shaykh? And what is the criterion for this matter?
Everything in the sea is permissible, and listen to the saying of Allah the Exalted: [Al-Ma'idah: 96] Ibn Abbas said: "The catch of the sea is what is taken alive, and its food is what is taken dead."
The questioner: And the analogy of insects, O Shaykh, to locusts, meaning those that do not have flowing blood?The Shaykh: Do you want to eat cockroaches?The questioner: They eat them in China, O Shaykh! The Shaykh: All of China eats them. May Allah guide them and guide the Muslims before them.
The questioner: What is being analogized?The Shaykh: No, it is not analogized.
The questioner: Do we deny them?The Shaykh: You deny them for eating cockroaches, and they are disbelievers! Deny the disbelief first, but if they cook cockroaches for you, do not eat them.
Everything in the sea is permissible, and listen to the saying of Allah the Exalted:
Lawful to you is game from the sea and its food
أُحِلَّ لَكُمْ صَيْدُ الْبَحْرِ وَطَعَامُهُThe questioner: And the analogy of insects, O Shaykh, to locusts, meaning those that do not have flowing blood?The Shaykh: Do you want to eat cockroaches?The questioner: They eat them in China, O Shaykh! The Shaykh: All of China eats them. May Allah guide them and guide the Muslims before them.
The questioner: What is being analogized?The Shaykh: No, it is not analogized.
The questioner: Do we deny them?The Shaykh: You deny them for eating cockroaches, and they are disbelievers! Deny the disbelief first, but if they cook cockroaches for you, do not eat them.