regarding a substance extracted from animal fats and used to manufacture certain food products?
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The questioner : ... that it is a substance extracted from animal fats. We spoke regarding the issue of milk, its ratio being two to ten percent, meaning two per thousand, a very strong ratio, meaning.
The Shaykh : In the milk?
The questioner : In the milk.
The Shaykh : Which milk?
The questioner : Most types of milk, and the principle is that it must be present in every type.
The Shaykh : ... the milk... .
The questioner : So your statement was that the issue of the ratio was found to be ... small, so it is permissible that it is slight ... and excused. Now, regarding chocolate and biscuits, and this is not mentioned at all in terms of ratio, as far as I know, meaning, or in the case of the ratio not being mentioned, what is our position?
The Shaykh : Meaning, do you mean that this ratio indicates that it is an independent substance, not a mixture, meaning this, or what does it mean? Does it mean that it is a mixture but the ratio is not known ... .
The questioner : Meaning, in milk, for example, they mention two per ten percent, two per thousand, meaning, meaning in every thousand grams of car. This is in the second materials, meaning sometimes they do not mention it.
The Shaykh : You said that sometimes ... .
The questioner : Brother Muhammad says ... but that I have never read a ratio, and perhaps ... in a company, meaning in an issue like, for example, chocolate and biscuits and such, I have never read a ratio at all, but milk constantly writes the ratio, and its ratio is small in milk, whereas in the second materials, meaning ... based on ... .
The Shaykh : And all of them contain this substance?
The questioner : Yes, it is written so and so ... they call it a preservative, our Shaykh, there are preservatives ... .
The Shaykh : ... this issue is from two aspects. The first aspect is what is the purpose of introducing the substance ... the different types of foods or sweets. Because if the purpose is known, it is possible to approach knowing the ratio, meaning, let us assume now that this ... contains sugar, but what is the ratio of the sugar to the water and to the flour and to ... and so on, for example? Without a doubt, the sugar will not be in the dough ... and that is the majority. This is an example to clarify what I wanted to make you understand, which is what is the purpose of placing this substance, so if the purpose is known, it is possible to know the nature of the ratio, not specifically whether it is much or little, even if we say: little or much, but we do not specify, we cannot specify, so it is an approximate issue. The second thing that is necessary is asking ... that whether the biscuit, for example, which contains this substance, that it must be examined to reveal to them... I want... what do you think, a little or not?
The questioner : Yes, exactly.
The Shaykh : The ratio is not clear? We say: ... the ratio, I have no objection, because the usage, considering that if the substance is impure, the impurity is not apparent in this compound, and if the substance is pure but it is forbidden, the effect of the forbidden is not clear, even more so in this second issue, which is ..., so the chemical analysis or what do you do? The quantitative analysis clarifies for us something that is not in the plan, at that time it becomes ... .
The questioner : ... the laboratory and they conducted tests on the materials for us, our Shaykh ... .
The Shaykh : In the milk?
The questioner : In the milk.
The Shaykh : Which milk?
The questioner : Most types of milk, and the principle is that it must be present in every type.
The Shaykh : ... the milk... .
The questioner : So your statement was that the issue of the ratio was found to be ... small, so it is permissible that it is slight ... and excused. Now, regarding chocolate and biscuits, and this is not mentioned at all in terms of ratio, as far as I know, meaning, or in the case of the ratio not being mentioned, what is our position?
The Shaykh : Meaning, do you mean that this ratio indicates that it is an independent substance, not a mixture, meaning this, or what does it mean? Does it mean that it is a mixture but the ratio is not known ... .
The questioner : Meaning, in milk, for example, they mention two per ten percent, two per thousand, meaning, meaning in every thousand grams of car. This is in the second materials, meaning sometimes they do not mention it.
The Shaykh : You said that sometimes ... .
The questioner : Brother Muhammad says ... but that I have never read a ratio, and perhaps ... in a company, meaning in an issue like, for example, chocolate and biscuits and such, I have never read a ratio at all, but milk constantly writes the ratio, and its ratio is small in milk, whereas in the second materials, meaning ... based on ... .
The Shaykh : And all of them contain this substance?
The questioner : Yes, it is written so and so ... they call it a preservative, our Shaykh, there are preservatives ... .
The Shaykh : ... this issue is from two aspects. The first aspect is what is the purpose of introducing the substance ... the different types of foods or sweets. Because if the purpose is known, it is possible to approach knowing the ratio, meaning, let us assume now that this ... contains sugar, but what is the ratio of the sugar to the water and to the flour and to ... and so on, for example? Without a doubt, the sugar will not be in the dough ... and that is the majority. This is an example to clarify what I wanted to make you understand, which is what is the purpose of placing this substance, so if the purpose is known, it is possible to know the nature of the ratio, not specifically whether it is much or little, even if we say: little or much, but we do not specify, we cannot specify, so it is an approximate issue. The second thing that is necessary is asking ... that whether the biscuit, for example, which contains this substance, that it must be examined to reveal to them... I want... what do you think, a little or not?
The questioner : Yes, exactly.
The Shaykh : The ratio is not clear? We say: ... the ratio, I have no objection, because the usage, considering that if the substance is impure, the impurity is not apparent in this compound, and if the substance is pure but it is forbidden, the effect of the forbidden is not clear, even more so in this second issue, which is ..., so the chemical analysis or what do you do? The quantitative analysis clarifies for us something that is not in the plan, at that time it becomes ... .
The questioner : ... the laboratory and they conducted tests on the materials for us, our Shaykh ... .