Question
Recently when my mother (a non-Muslim) went to buy her groceries, she purchased cheese for me. The cheese is halaal. It has non-animal rennet and no colourants. Since it is a small item, it must have been in the same shopping bag with my mother's groceries. I have not eaten the cheese. Would it be best to keep the cheese for a beggar?
Answer
If there were no meat/ chicken products in her shopping bags, then you may eat the cheese. As it is, the cheese is in non-Muslim supermarkets, handled by non-Muslims from beginning to end, hence it will not matter if it was in your mother‟s shopping bag provided that there were no meat/chicken products in the same bag.
Be informed that even if there were meat products in the shopping bag, then too the cheese which is separately wrapped will remain halaal. But for people of Taqwa „halaal‟ is not the only factor for consideration. The detrimental athr (spiritual effect) of the haraam carrion meat does have a bad spiritual effect on even the halaal products in its proximity.
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- The Majlis Vol 26 No 04
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