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A physician has said: A person from Kerala – India, told me when I was abroad that the people of Kerala were very good at maths (including Algebra and Geometry), science and other difficult branches of knowledge of the world. Upon asking what the reason of their expertise was, he said, ‘They have fish and fish head regularly.’
Question: Is a crab Ḥalāl or Ḥarām as food?
Answer: It is Ḥarām to eat crab. Every aquatic animal is Ḥarām apart from fish.
Malik-ul-‘Ulamā Imām ‘Alāuddīn Abū Bakr Bin Mas’ūd Kāsānī قُـدِّسَ سِـرُّ ہُ الـنُّـوۡرَانِی has said about this, ‘Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ has said:
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And will forbid for them unclean things. |
وَ یُحَرِّ مُ عَـلَیۡہِمُ الۡخَبٰٓئِثَ |
[Kanz-ul-Īmān (Translation of Quran)] (Part 9, Sūraĥ Al-A’rāf, verse 157)
The frog, crab and snakes, etc., are filthy and wicked animals. (Badā’i-uṣ-Ṣanā’i, vol. 4, pp. 144)
A’lā Ḥaḍrat, Imām-e-Aĥl-e-Sunnat, Maulānā Shāĥ Imām Aḥmad Razā Khān عَـلَيْهِ رَحْمَةُ الـرَّحْمٰن has said, ‘Eating cancer, i.e., crab is Ḥarām.’ (Fatāwā Razawiyyaĥ, vol. 4, pp. 208)
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