Re: Is eating lobster halal?
nai bibi, ulema are fallible, and any ruling is merely an aalim's interpretation of Islam. diversity in rulings only reflects that different people have had different ways of looking at the same things.
honestly though, its quite hard to figure out which rulings to follow. i understand that shia's generally follow one particular aalim, and there isnt that much conflict in dietary laws.. but I live with mostly sunni friends, and have to deal with their eating issues everyday. and since a lot of this (scales/no scales, cheese/no cheese) isnt based on logic but differing traditions of contentious reliability and timing and abrogation, its quite hard for them to decide what to do.
i guess in the end u just have to pick one particular ruling and let your intentions account for the rest.