If we do not know whether the meat in the restaurant is local or imported, we ask the owner, and he may be a liar and say it is local, so what should we do?

The questioner : The questioner, Abdullah, asked about a restaurant where we do not know if they have local meat from Kuwait or imported meat, so we ask them if this meat is from outside or inside. Sometimes they lie; if they see us with beards, they say this meat is from Kuwait, and it turns out to be from abroad... It is not about the quality of the meat, whether it was slaughtered or not, but rather the doubt is whether it is imported or local, is that all?

The Shaykh : This is what came in the man's speech!

The questioner : This is his intention.

The questioner : My intention is that what is in Kuwait came from outside...

The Shaykh : He repeated the same statement, so you are building while he is demolishing.

The questioner : The same... there is nothing else from Kuwait...

The Shaykh : ...there is doubt in the imported one...

The questioner : No, this is now the second point of inquiry.

The Shaykh : But he says it this way...

The questioner : No, it does not mean no, this...

The Shaykh : ... .

The questioner : Restaurants now in... have fresh meat, and sometimes... the meat is not fresh. We ask in this manner, but the one coming from outside, this is almost common among us, not slaughtered, especially the chicken, I mean.

The Shaykh : I say I understood your presentation from another side that this presentation... that presentation... that presentation was repeated again, saying that there is doubt in the imported one.

The questioner : ... .

The Shaykh : In any case, the answer is known, and this exists in all countries. If it is now the predominant opinion, as we said earlier, meaning it is the predominant opinion that when you ask him, "Is this imported?" we do not say now frozen or not frozen, "Is it imported or local?" and we say to him, "Is this imported or local?" He says, "By Allah, this is local." We see if we are confident in his word or not. If we are confident in his word, then it is on his responsibility and his guarantee, so it is lawful. And if he says, "No, this is imported," that is enough, imported, as the brother here said... ninety, meaning killed and not slaughtered. The ruling in this scenario is very clear...

The questioner : They brought us chicken labeled as slaughtered in the Islamic way...

The Shaykh : ...this is completely known... they wrote on the fish, "slaughtered on the fish in the Islamic way"... 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... So if we forbid them from this food, what harm have we caused them? I believe this is not permissible Islamically, especially in a country like yours, for our Lord, Mighty and Majestic, multiplies lawful good through many paths. Instead of us approving this haram, and even to be able to import lawful food in a way that suffices all the people of the country, it means directly cutting off the root of evil, cutting off the head of the snake. And at that time... lawful food. Add to that that you are people of the coast, you have fish that suffices you, and you are not as is the case in countries... who have no meat to eat except dried fish in Dubai... that they formed a committee and sent it to some countries, perhaps Austria, and they send from there chicken placed in plastic bags and written on them that this is under the responsibility of the Islamic bank, and indeed you see the effect of slaughter in it is very clear. So this is a solution to the problem in a way that has no violation of the Shari'ah and no harm to the people either, as we imagine in... that if we cut off this forbidden livelihood from them, we would have harmed them. So there is no benefit here that obliges us to approve this forbidden thing until we accustom them to the lawful. We must immediately strive to compensate with the lawful while cutting off the root of the haram, because as he (peace and blessings be upon him) said in the authentic hadith This is in addition to His saying, Blessed and Exalted is He So we are in deep error and misguidance that some of us imagine that the individual Muslim or the group of Muslims or the Muslim state, if they fear Allah, Mighty and Majestic, in their religion and obey the Shari'ah of their Lord, they will be afflicted... and with hardship and toil, and there will be no way out for them, while the verse explicitly states the opposite ... I 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 a tragedy occurring in the Islamic world, 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 refrain from taking riba from it, which they call by a name other than its name, interest, but you know that the bank will invest this money in the path of riba, so you are assisting in that, and you thereby contradict the saying of Allah, Mighty and Majestic as you contradict some explicit hadiths that forbid cooperation in evil, like the hadith mentioned earlier with some of our brothers I remembered earlier this hadith that one of them conveyed to me that one of the Shaykhs of Saudi Arabia issued a fatwa that if you are an employee in the bank, and 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. I said, Subhan Allah, as if these Shaykhs were created to support any deviation in the ruling. This one who writes, what does he write? He writes riba, so he is also cooperating with the one who established this huge department that deals with forbidden riba... Therefore, I say, sorry, I am sometimes forced to remind Muslims of the verse of the Lord of the Worlds Directly one of them says, where do I put my money? If I put it in my house, I fear for it from theft, I fear for myself from being killed. Well, he thinks purely materially, as the European man thinks who does not believe in Allah and the Last Day and does not forbid what Allah and His Messenger have forbidden. So this is very regrettable, while this noble verse is in our hands.