Definition of a faasiq, greeting a faasiq and eating from an animal that is slaughtered by a faasiq
Question
1. What is a faasiq?
2. Can you greet a person that is a faasiq?
3. Can you eat from an animal that is slaughtered by a faasiq?
Answer
1. A person who commits wrong not in public.
2. If it is in order to bring him closer to deen then the greeting will be like a dawat.
3. Yes, as long as he is conforming to the shar`ee requirements of slaughtering.
And Allah Ta'ala (الله تعالى) knows best.
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- Mufti Ebrahim Salejee (Isipingo Beach)
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