What is the ruling on shoes that are suspected of having the Name of Allah written on them? And what is the ruling on selling and wearing them?
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The questioner : May Allah reward you, O Shaykh: There are some shoes that have some lines that resemble the Name of Allah. I have brought this shoe, meaning it is ambiguous to people, so we ask for clarification whether this is the Name of Allah or not?
And what is the ruling on selling and wearing them if it is the Name of Allah?
The Shaykh : I say: May Allah reward you. This happens frequently since more than four or five years ago, and people are confused by such a matter. However, this confusion has no reality, because when a person imagines something, it is imprinted in his mind that this is the thing he imagined. But if another person comes who did not have this thing in his mind, he would know that it is not what the first person imagined. Often, for example, a person imagines that a piece of cloth with patterns is birds, and when someone else sees it, he says: No, these are not birds. Similarly, what we find in some slippers, some people imagine that it is the Name of Allah, but it is not. If another person comes who did not have this thing in his mind, he would know that it has no reality. The original ruling is the absence of prohibition and permissibility until a person is certain that this is a prohibited thing. And I have now seen what was presented to me, and I do not find in it anything that resembles the Name of Allah.
And what is the ruling on selling and wearing them if it is the Name of Allah?
The Shaykh : I say: May Allah reward you. This happens frequently since more than four or five years ago, and people are confused by such a matter. However, this confusion has no reality, because when a person imagines something, it is imprinted in his mind that this is the thing he imagined. But if another person comes who did not have this thing in his mind, he would know that it is not what the first person imagined. Often, for example, a person imagines that a piece of cloth with patterns is birds, and when someone else sees it, he says: No, these are not birds. Similarly, what we find in some slippers, some people imagine that it is the Name of Allah, but it is not. If another person comes who did not have this thing in his mind, he would know that it has no reality. The original ruling is the absence of prohibition and permissibility until a person is certain that this is a prohibited thing. And I have now seen what was presented to me, and I do not find in it anything that resembles the Name of Allah.