Is Washing Up Liquid Permissible to Use?
Answered by Mawlana Ilyas Patel
Question
If washing up liquid for dishes contains ethanol derived from wheat or corn and may contain traces of animal-derived ingredients that may include pig, would this be fine as you’re eating off the dishes and using utensils that actually go in your mouth?
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Answer
In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful and Compassionate
I pray you are in good faith and health.
Scholars and Muftis have researched that animal by-products found in detergents and washing up liquids and powders undergo an essential change (tabdil al-mahiyya). Such products will be considered pure, and using them to wash one’s clothes will be permissible.
However, if one comes to know of a product that has a porcine by-product and does not go through an essential change (tabdil al-mahiyya), then one will not be able to use it.
[IbnʿAbidin, Radd al-Muhtar; Rada al-Haq, Fatawa Darul Ulum Zakariyya]
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Wassalam,
[Mawlana] Ilyas Patel
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Mawlana Ilyas Patel is a traditionally-trained scholar who has studied in the UK, India, Pakistan, Syria, Jordan, and Turkey. He started his early education in the UK. He went on to complete the hifz of the Quran in India, then enrolled in an Islamic seminary in the UK, where he studied the secular and ‘Aalimiyya sciences. He then traveled to Karachi, Pakistan. He has been an Imam in Rep of Ireland for several years. He has taught hifz of the Quran, Tajwid, Fiqh, and many other Islamic sciences to children and adults onsite and online extensively in the UK and Ireland. He taught at a local Islamic seminary for 12 years in the UK, where he was a librarian and a teacher of Islamic sciences. He currently resides in the UK with his wife. His interest is a love of books and gardening.
