Can I Use Blood, Fish, and Bone Fertilizer for Growing Vegetables?

Answered by Shaykh Abdul-Rahim Reasat

Question

As someone with a keen interest in growing my own vegetables, I would like to ask if it is permissible to use fertilizers containing blood, such as blood, fish, and bone fertilizer.

Answer

I pray you are well.

Yes, it is permissible to use fertilizers containing blood, etc.

It is permissible to purchase impure substances, such as manure, and to use them if there is a benefit to be derived from them. The food grown from them will be pure and permissible. [Laknawi, ‘Umdat al-Ri‘aya]

The same would apply to other naja substances that have a practical use, such as cat food.

May Allah bless you with the best of both worlds.
[Shaykh] Abdul-Rahim
Checked and Approved by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani

Shaykh Abdul-Rahim Reasat began studying Arabic Grammar and Morphology whilst studying for a degree in English and History. After graduating, He traveled to Damascus and studied Arabic, Hanafi Fiqh, Usul al-Fiqh, Theology, and Logic with Shaykh Adnan Darwish, Shaykh ‘Abd al-Rahman Arjan al-Binsawi, Shaykh Husayn Darwish, Shaykh Muhammad Darwish, the late Shaykh Rashad Shams, and others. He then moved to Amman to continue his studies in those fields, as well as in Tafsir, Quranic Sciences, Hadith Methodology and Commentary, Prophetic Biography, Prophetic Perfections and Traits, Rhetoric, Arabic Literature, and Tajwid. His teachers include Shaykh Ali Hani, Dr. Hamza al-Bakri, Dr Salah Abu al-Hajj, Dr Mansur Abu Zina, Shaykh Ahmad Hasanat, Shaykh Ahmad Jammal, and others.