Can you eat all kinds of fish?

**Serinity** · 10-01-2016

Can you eat all the fish in the sea? And can you eat skinned fish? And what does that really mean?

What are the conditions that would make sea food haram?

Allahu alam.

**Huzaifah ibn Adam** · 10-04-2016

Fish is nicest when it's from a fishery (by people who know how to make it just right), and of course, chips as the side dish, and served with coleslaw.

So these are the kinds of option people have when Halaal meat isn't readily available. Either slaughter your own meat, or choose fish.

It would actually work out cheaper if you went to a farm, bought a sheep, slaughtered it yourself, had a blockman cut it up for you, and stored it at home in your freezer. If you bought that same amount of meat from a butchery, you'd spend much more. At the same time, when going to the farm, you can buy and slaughter a couple of chickens one time, and those you can skin and cut up yourself because it's very simple. That takes care of your meat and chicken. Then you can even go fishing if you like, or buy fresh fish and store it in your freezer, and now you're stocked up with Halaal meats. Cut out restaurants and take-aways. If you have to buy food (because you don't have the time to make, for example,) then there are always fisheries. Buy fish and chips. If you do this, you'll get three benefits:

Only eating Halaal, Tayyib food.
Saving money.
It's healthier.

I make my own pizzas instead of buying. Pizzas are very easy to make. Chicken pizzas are the nicest.

**Scimitar** · 10-04-2016

how about the sauce? you make that from pomidoro tomatoes yourself? or is it store bought? (I cheat, and get the store bought one)

Scimi

**Huzaifah ibn Adam** · 10-04-2016

No, I make the sauce myself.

**Scimitar** · 10-04-2016

You badman (that means good in today's inverted terminology btw)

Scimi

**Huzaifah ibn Adam** · 10-04-2016

And of course, pizzas must have olives. They're another of my favourites. (I don't think there are Arabs who don't like olives? If there are, I haven't met them.)

**Serinity** · 10-05-2016

Slaughtering your own meat, fishing at the fisherie etc. Actually serves as good training for hunting for food, In shaa' Allah.

It may also make one more grateful. Instead of buying it from the stores and stuff. If one buys it by slaughtering etc. One may even be more grateful and at awe when eating it.........

Idk tho. But you get some motion on them legs.

And Allah

knows best.

**noraina** · 10-05-2016

If it is fairly easy and possible for you to make something at home, then you should do so inshaAllah.

Like breads or desserts or biscuits or pizza....anything really. You can be assured it will be halal, as well as the fact it'll taste 100x better and won't be filled with preservatives or anything like that.

Of course, fish and chips you must buy from the pros. Fish and chips is possibly one of the tastiest things in the world - I've never met a Brit who doesn't like fish and chips, lol. I actually live down the road from a very well-known chippie in the surrounding area - and its halal!

**Scimitar** · 10-05-2016

the chinese one in leytonstone is pretty good and cheap too. but theres always a queue which takes ages... good ole fish n chips fridays (after jummah vibe)

Scimi

**Huzaifah ibn Adam** · 10-05-2016

People in countries with colder climates seem to like fish & chips more than people from places with hotter climates. Among the African people, chicken is top. Among the Boere community, meat is top. Especially wors. Braais. Among the Arabs, also, meat is everyone's favourite.

So it seems like the hotter climates prefer meat and the colder climates prefer fish.

**noraina** · 10-05-2016

Actually Friday tends to be the day we eat fish and chips, when we do. My dad comes early from work on Jummah anyway so we ask him to bring fish and chips on the way back...tastes extra nice after the Jummah prayer, lol.

I do prefer fish myself, and potatoes....my relatives who have grown up back home don't understand that food choice at all.