Which Sea food is halaal?
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I read your reply regarding sea food
to question of one of our brothers in deen. I want to know whether all sea food
is halal or sea food with scales are only halal? please give reply with Quran
verses and hadith.
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Answer:
Which Sea food is halaal?
In the name of Allah, We praise
Him, seek His help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can
misguide, and whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We
bear witness that there is no one (no idol,
no person, no grave, no prophet, no imam,
no dai, nobody!) worthy of
worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that Muhammad(saws) is His
slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 16 Surah Nahl verse 14:If is He (Allah) Who has subjected the sea
to your service so that you may get fresh flesh from it to eat and bring out of
it articles of ornaments, which you
wear.
Abu Hurairah
(r.a.) related that a man asked the Messenger
of Allah (saws), "O Messenger of Allah, we sail on the ocean and we carry
only a little water. If we use it for
ablution, we will have to go thirsty.
May we use sea water for ablution?" Said the Messenger of Allah (saws), "Its (the sea) water is pure and its dead (animals) are
lawful (i.e., they can be eaten without any prescribed slaughtering)."
The scales of the fish have
absolutely no bearings on whether the sea-food is halaal or haraam. All types of sea-food is considered halaal
in Islam.
Whatever written of Truth and
benefit is only due to Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error
is of me. Allah Alone Knows Best and He
is the Only Source of Strength.
Your Brother in
Islam,
Burhan