Is Sea Moss Gel Halal If It Contains Traces of Sea Creatures?
Hanafi Fiqh
Answered by Mawlana Ilyas Patel
Question
Is sea moss gel permissible to consume if it may contain traces of molluscs or crustaceans?
Answer
In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful and Compassionate.
I pray you are in good faith and health. Thank you for your question.
Sea moss is permitted and regarded as a sea vegetable. It’s a type of seaweed, and although it’s not a traditional land vegetable, it’s a nutrient-dense plant that grows in the ocean and is used similarly to land vegetables in cooking and health uses.
Traces of crustaceans and mollusks may be found in some seaweed and sea moss in a negligible, extremely minimal, and unnoticeable amount. When processed, these traces may not even be present at all.
Issue of Shrimp/Prawns
Those who took the scientific approach have considered shrimp and prawns prohibited, and those who took what the people customarily understood to be fish allowed them.
Due to this, there should not be such staunchness in the shrimp issue when dispensing legal judgments, especially since the issue is fundamentally debated. Likewise, there is no doubt that it (shrimp) is permissible according to the (other) three Imams. [‘Uthmani, Takmila Fath al-Mulhim]
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Wassalam,
[Mawlana] Ilyas Patel
Checked and Approved by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani
Mawlana Ilyas Patel has received a traditional education in various countries. He started his schooling in the UK and completed his hifz of the Quran in India. After that, he joined an Islamic seminary in the UK, where he studied secular and Aalimiyya sciences. Later, he traveled to Karachi, Pakistan, and other Middle Eastern countries to further his education. Mawlana has served as an Imam in the Republic of Ireland for several years and taught the Quran and other Islamic sciences to both children and adults. He also worked as a teacher and librarian at a local Islamic seminary in the UK for 12 years. Presently, he lives in the UK with his wife and is interested in books and gardening.
