Answered by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani Question Why are chickens and rabbits halal when they sometimes eat their own feces, while one reason given for capybaras being haram is that they eat their own feces? Answer In the Name of Allah, the Merciful and Compassionate The halal or haram status of an animal is established by […]

Answered by Mawlana Ilyas Patel Question If a baligh cousin of a non-baligh child says to the non-baligh child, “I give you all my money” or “I gave you all my money,” then does the money of the baligh cousin become the property of the non-baligh child? Is the father, while alive, the sole legal […]

Answered by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani Question If a company’s contracts include impermissible late-fee or interest clauses, are the goods and money flowing through them haram, and is it impermissible to deal with such companies or develop software for them? Answer No. The goods are not haram, and ordinary purchases from such companies remain permissible. The […]

Answered by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani Question Why does the Hanafi school treat shrimp as lawful? The Arabs considered it fish, and why should the Arabic understanding of “fish” be normative when Islam is for all peoples? Answer In the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate. The Quran was revealed in Arabic, and […]