Eating meat when it is uncertain whether it has been cooked with utensils used for pork
Question: 678
Is it permissible to eat meat dishes at non muslim restuarants where pork and/or alcohol is served. It is not known whether the meat was slaughtered Islamically or not. However the meat and the pork are stored in the same refrigerator and/or cooked using the same utensils.
Praise be to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon the Messenger of Allah and his family.
What
the Muslim should do if this is the case, is to avoid eating in these
restaurants. He should look for halaal meat in halaal places, even if
that is a little difficult for him, because of the importance in Islam
of ensuring that food comes from good sources.
And
Allaah knows best.
Source:
Sheikh Muhammed Salih Al-Munajjid
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