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m4rouf
وَعَلَيْكُمْ السَّلاَمُ
jzk khairan for the reply.
I was thinking about whether it’s permissible from the perspective of not knowing exactly what you’re buying. I read somewhere that you have to know what you’re buying before buying it or it’s not permissible, but I don’t know how specific the knowledge has to be since you do broadly know what you’d be getting in the magic bag.
What we do know is that we cannot trust non Muslims not to cross contaminate food products. Also if we have our doubts about any matter, then as a general rule of thumb we should try and avoid it:
Abi Ab’dillahi al-Nu’man ibn Basheer (Ra) said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) say: “That which is lawful is clear and that which is unlawful is clear and between the two of them are doubtful [or ambiguous] matters about which not many people are knowledgeable. Thus, he who avoids these doubtful matters certainly clears himself in regard to his religion and his honor. But he who falls into the doubtful matters falls into that which is unlawful like the shepherd who pastures around a sanctuary, all but grazing therein. Verily every king has a sanctuary and Allah’s sanctuary is His prohibition. In the body there is a morsel of flesh which, if it be sound, all the body is sound and which, if it be diseased, all the body is diseased. This part of the body is the heart”. (Bukhari and Muslim]
And Allah knows best in all matters