Is there a difference between pure blood and forbidden blood?
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The questioner : Is there a difference between lawful blood and pure blood? If someone were to say that the blood of fish and the like is pure and lawful, and the blood of a human being is...
The Shaykh : Yes, the blood of fish is pure and lawful. If you took a cup of fish blood and drank it, there is nothing wrong with it. But is it lawful to eat human blood?
The questioner : No...
The Shaykh : No. It is as if you are trying to say, “Then let them say that it is permissible to drink human blood.”
The questioner : No, as long as it has become forbidden...
The Shaykh : It does not follow from something being pure that it is lawful.
The Shaykh : Yes, the blood of fish is pure and lawful. If you took a cup of fish blood and drank it, there is nothing wrong with it. But is it lawful to eat human blood?
The questioner : No...
The Shaykh : No. It is as if you are trying to say, “Then let them say that it is permissible to drink human blood.”
The questioner : No, as long as it has become forbidden...
The Shaykh : It does not follow from something being pure that it is lawful.