Eating food that may contain pork intentionally

28-3-2017 | IslamWeb

Question:

I am a young teenage woman who has made a huge mistake. I am Muslim, but my friends do not know this about me. I ate pepperoni with the knowledge of doing so, and I feel like a bad Muslim, and I am ashamed and do not know what to do. Please help me.

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Answer:

All perfect praise be to Allah, The Lord of the worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allah and that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger.

We came to know that the food which you mentioned in the question may contain pork; if this is the case, then you have committed a sin. Hence, you must repent to Allah. Please review the conditions of repentance in fatwa 86527.

You should think well of Allah and not despair of His mercy. Allah says on the tongue of Ya’qoob (Jacob) : {…and despair not of relief from Allah. Indeed, no one despairs of relief from Allah except the disbelieving people.} [Quran 12:87]

It is of great importance that a Muslim be proud of his religion, as this will lead him to abide by it. As regards a Muslim hiding his religion among the non-Muslims without a valid reason - such as being harmed if he shows his religion - then this negates taking pride in his religion and showing it, and this leads him to be willing to imitate the non-Muslims in their evil actions to please them, while Allah says (what means): {And who is better in speech than one who invites to Allah and does righteousness and says: Indeed, I am of the Muslims.} [Quran 41:33]

You should be very careful of befriending bad company as this leads to destruction. For more benefit, please refer to fatwa 90473.

Allah knows best.