Question
I am sending you a fatwa for viewing and comment. According to the fatwa, all the fees charged by SANHA for halaalizing products are permissible. The fatwa is somewhat disturbing. Please comment.
Answer
At the outset, it must be emphasized that SANHA does not provide any valid service to either the Muslim community or to individual traders. Certifying maitah (carrion) which is haraam is never a service accepted in Islam. On the contrary, the consequence of such a corrupt, haraam imagined ‘service’ is the Fire of Jahannum. Thus, all fees charged by SANHA are haraam. These fees consist of:
Money extracted from traders for so-called ‘halaal’ certificates and mock inspections of the premises.
Money which the kuffaar chicken plants have to pay for halaalizing their carrion.
Since the entire SANHA operation is Islamically fraudulent, misleading and deceptive, it is haraam, hence all the money which SANHA acquires from traders and chicken plants is haraam.
It is extremely short-sighted, to say the least, that there exists a valid Shar’i Ijaarah contract between SANHA and the traders, and SANHA and the carrion chicken plants. This is the fundamental error in the ‘fatwa’.
Whilst this is the factual position, let us now make the stupid and baseless assumption that the chickens are ‘halaal’. Should this be the case, then too, there is no valid Ijaarah contract. Sending a person to ins
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