At what level of breakdown a Haram thing could be considered Halal? What is metamorphosis?.How can we know that this process has been done completely?

· 14 Rabiʻ II 1425 AH1 min readFatwa 11761English

Question

Respected Muftee sahib, As you have specified in one of your Fatwa(http://islam.tc/ask-imam/view.php?q=83) that Geletin from the Pork(or any other Non-Zabiha) becomes Halal after complete metamorphosis process. What is metamorphosis?. How can we know that this process has been done completely? Is there a Hadith which states approximately as: that the thing which is Haram its constituents are also Haram, if this Hadith is there then at which level of breakdown of a Haram thing is it applicable?. Are ingredients of Pork or any other Haram thing, Halal at microlevel? what is this level of Breakdown? Why are not some extracts of Pork allowed?. Kindly guide in this regard as early as possible because we have lot of problems in slecting the Halal things which we can eat in Gremany, due to lot of Mashkook ingredients in them. JazaakAllah Khairan.

Answer

What is meant is for complete change to take place in them, to such an extent that no trace of the original product remains eg. a donkey dies in a salt mine and as time passes is completely transformed into salt.

As to the exact conditions applicable and when exactly can you say it has taken place etc, this is under research at the moment by the members of the Board of Mufti's in South Africa and is scheduled to be discussed in a few months.

and Allah Ta'ala Knows Best

Mufti Ebrahim Desai

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Mufti Ebrahim Desai
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