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Fatwa CenterRuling on Handling and Selling Gelatin and Food Additives with Impure Origins
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Assalamu Alaikum,I work in a UK petrol station with a Muslim-owned shop. We don’t sell any alcohol, pork, or lottery, but some candies, snacks, and chocolates are clearly haram (pork/non-halal gelatin) or ambiguous (E-number ingredients). Most items are halal. About 88% of total daily income is from fuel, 12% shop, of which 3.5% to 4% involves these items. I do cashier and shelving. Is my income halal? Can I shelf/scan these items, or place orders in office? Will my total earnings remain halal?
Answer
All perfect praise be to Allah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allah, and that Muhammad (ﷺ) is His Slave and Messenger.
Gelatin and other substances added to food and medicine, if they originate from an impure or prohibited source, may be transformed into substances that are permissible according to Islamic law through one of two processes: transformation (istiḥālah) or complete absorption (istiḥlāk). This is the conclusion reached in the recommendations of the Ninth Islamic Medical Jurisprudence Seminar, organized by the Islamic Organization for Medical Sciences in cooperation with the International Islamic Fiqh Academy, as published in the tenth issue of the Journal of the Islamic Fiqh Academy.
In most cases, such additives undergo one or both of these processes during manufacturing. Accordingly, there is no ruling of prohibition concerning your work in selling sweets and similar items mentioned in the question.
Allah Knows best.
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