1. Ask A Question About Islam And Muslims
  2. Ask A Question About Islam And Muslims

Ask A Question About Islam And Muslims

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If a non-Muslim restaurant owner tells you that his meat is Halal, can you eat the meat? And if the non-Muslim is also selling pork and assures you the Halal meat won't touch the pork, could you still eat from there?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

Non Muslim seller who claims that the meat he is selling or wants to sell is Halal can not be taken as an authentic evidence that the meat is really Halal. If Muslim tells you that his meat is Halal and you have no reason to doubt his statement, then you can take the neat as Halal.

Restaurants selling alcohol or pork can never be trusted as utensils and plates used in cooking or serving alcohol or pork  become Najis and and every other food put in Najis utensils and plates becomes Najis as well.

Wassalam.
If in a life or death situation where starvation will be the cause of death and you are forced to have pork, is it permissible not to eat it and allow yourself to die?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

Usually we deal with questions related to practical issues which people experience in their day to day life. Your question looks like very far from day to day life, nevertheless if you want the answer for knowledge, it is obligatory to save our life. Deliberate failure in saving life and causing death is a sinful act. It is not permissible to cause death to yourself even if the only food available to remain alive is pork, but no more than what make you survive.

'Wassalam.
I have heard that when eating one should allocate a third of his stomach for food, another third for his drink, and the remaining one third should remain empty. How can one know how much is one third of his stomach's capacity?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

We are been advised to eat less and leave the food when you are still feel wanting to eat more. That will then leave space for drinks and breathing. It comes from your personal experience which makes you able to estimate the one third for food and the other third for drinks and the last third for breathing properly with out feeling full or heavy.

Wassalam..
Can we eat from McDonald's in a Muslim country?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

If the meat was slaughtered in any Muslim country by Muslims, we can take it as Halal. Many multinational food companies bring meat from non Muslim countries to sell it in their branches in Muslim countries. Such meat brought from non Muslim countries is not Halal unless there is an evidence that it was slaughtered by Muslim according to Islamic rules.

Wassalam.