Are Shoes Permissible to Wear with Unknown Animal Derivatives?

In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful and Compassionate

I pray you are in good faith and health. Thank you for your question.

In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful and Compassionate

I pray you are in good faith and health. Thank you for your question.

Glue is made from a wide range of raw materials, so one can assume it is from sources other than pork. One does not have to investigate a specific product if it is made from a pork derivative.

One can apply this principle, and also to many things in life.

“The normal basis for all things is that they are permissible until there is evidence of impermissibility.” [Ibn Nujaym, Al-Ashbah Wa al-Nadhair]

If the glue does not show impermissibility, you have no obligation to consider whether it has been derived from animal or non-animal-based gelatin.

I pray this helps with your question.

Wassalam,

[Mawlana]Ilyas Patel

Checked and approved by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani

Mawlana Ilyas Patel is a traditionally-trained scholar who has studied in the UK, India, Pakistan, Syria, Jordan, and Turkey. He started his early education in the UK. He went on to complete the hifz of the Quran in India, then enrolled in an Islamic seminary in the UK, where he studied the secular and ‘Aalimiyya sciences. He then traveled to Karachi, Pakistan. He has been an Imam in Rep of Ireland for several years. He has taught hifz of the Quran, Tajwid, Fiqh, and many other Islamic sciences to children and adults onsite and online extensively in the UK and Ireland. He taught at a local Islamic seminary for 12 years in the UK, where he was a librarian and a teacher of Islamic sciences. He currently resides in the UK with his wife. His interest is a love of books and gardening.