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Is it safe to eat fish raised in septic tanks containing human waste and other garbage?

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Is Shark meat allowed to eat? 2. In some places people raise cat fish in sceptic tanks which contains human feces and waste. The catfish eats human waste and other garbage. Is it allowed to eat such fish?

Answer

(Fatwa: 17/17=B)

(1, 2) If the zoologists, linguists and people consider them as fish and they fall in the category of fish then undoubtedly it is allowed to eat them even though they live on anything.

Allah (Subhana Wa Ta’ala) knows Best

Darul Ifta,
Darul Uloom Deoband

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