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Business Owning

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Muslimah

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Date Posted: 17:09:24 02/06/03 Thu
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Asalama Aleikum,

Is it permissable in Islam to run a business that provides such services as food (pig meat; also chicken, turkey, etc. that are not slaughtered properly)? Generally speaking, is it permissable to run a business of any kind that provides services that are Makrough or where the services offered can be rendered haraam upon the customer's use of the service?

Thank You,
SisterSamee

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[> Subject: Re: Business Owning

Author:
Laila Nasheeba
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Date Posted: 20:45:51 02/06/03 Thu
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As salaamu Alaikoum,

Praise be to Allah.

First of all, selling Pork is not undesired.. it is Haraam.
As Muslims we are prohibited to sell anything that is haraam to others:

Ibn �Abbaas (may Allaah be pleased with him) said: �The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: �Allaah has cursed the Jews because fat was forbidden to them, but they sold it and took its price. When Allaah forbids something he also forbids its price.�� (Reported by Imaam Ahmad, 2546).

Chicken and turkey are not haraam to sale as long as they were not killed in an unlawful manner as defined by Allah:

"Forbidden to you (for food) are: Al-Maytatah (the dead animals - cattle-beast not slaughtered), blood, the flesh of swine, and the meat of that which has been slaughtered as a sacrifice for others than All�h, or has been slaughtered for idols, etc., or on which All�h's Name has not been mentioned while slaughtering, and that which has been killed by strangling, or by a violent blow, or by a headlong fall, or by the goring of horns - and that which has been (partly) eaten by a wild animal - unless you are able to slaughter it (before its death) � and that which is sacrificed (slaughtered) on An�Nusub[] (stone altars)..." [Surat 5:3]

AND ALLAH KNOWS BEST

Laila Nasheeba