How Do I Deal With My Doubts Regarding Food Possibly Being Contaminated By Urine?

Answered by Shaykh Yusuf Weltch

Question Summary

How do I deal with my doubts regarding food possibly being contaminated by urine?

Question Answer

In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful and Compassionate

If you feel in doubt that the oil used may be the same oil used when cooking products that contain cow’s urine – take the following steps:

1) Clarify from the company whether or not they use the same oil when cooking products contaminated with cow’s urine.

2) If they confirm that it is indeed the same oil, abstain from eating at that facility.

3) If they declare that the oil is not the same, then exercise your judgment as to whether you believe them or not and act accordingly.

Note that caution is recommended.

Hope this helps
Allah knows best
[Shaykh] Yusuf Weltch

Checked and Approved by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani

Shaykh Yusuf Weltch is a teacher of Arabic, Islamic law, and spirituality. After accepting Islam in 2008, he then completed four years at the Darul Uloom seminary in New York where he studied Arabic and the traditional sciences. He then traveled to Tarim, Yemen, where he stayed for three years studying in Dar Al-Mustafa under some of the greatest scholars of our time, including Habib Umar Bin Hafiz, Habib Kadhim al-Saqqaf, and Shaykh Umar al-Khatib. In Tarim, Shaykh Yusuf completed the memorization of the Qur’an and studied beliefs, legal methodology, hadith methodology, Qur’anic exegesis, Islamic history, and a number of texts on spirituality. He joined the SeekersGuidance faculty in the summer of 2019.