Foods and drinks

Everything about foods and drinks: halal and haram, intoxicants, ritual slaughter, hunting, divergent animals and divergent questions (blood, gellala, dead fish). Each page presents the ruling, the evidence and the schools' differences.

Contents

Lawful (halal) and unlawful (haram) foods
Drinks: wine and intoxicants
Slaughter and sacrificing (dhabh)
Divergent animals: donkey, horse, hyena, insects and poisons
Game and hunting
Food differences: blood, gellala, insects
Sea creatures: fish, crustaceans and seafood
Meat slaughtered by the People of the Book
Additives, gelatin and doubtful ingredients
Eating the forbidden out of necessity (darura)
Tobacco, shisha and drugs
Vinegar, cooking alcohol and alcohol traces
Eating out and managing doubt
Keeping a dog and companion animals

Updated on 31 August 2026 at 3:55 AM

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Lawful (halal) and unlawful (haram) foods Drinks: wine and intoxicants Slaughter and sacrificing (dhabh) Divergent animals: donkey, horse, hyena, insects and poisons Game and hunting Food differences: blood, gellala, insects Sea creatures: fish, crustaceans and seafood Meat slaughtered by the People of the Book Additives, gelatin and doubtful ingredients Eating the forbidden out of necessity (darura) Tobacco, shisha and drugs Vinegar, cooking alcohol and alcohol traces Eating out and managing doubt Keeping a dog and companion animals

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم Fri 21 Rabi' al-Awwal
الجمعة 21 ربيع الأول