Re: Seafood - Crab/Lobster Halal?
No, you cannot pick and chose. Is terha tau deen choo-choo ka murabba ban jayey ga :).
You have to seek expert opinion first.
sarkaar
its just interpretatiosn right, I dont have to pick one complete set of interpretations. The gentlemen in question are trying their best to interpret certain things which may be ambiguous. Now either we have to come out and say all of them or some of them are wrong, and if we are not willing to do so, and say theya re all just different interpretations, then you go with the interpretation that you like or feel is the right one.
I think if we say these are mutually exclusive formal divisions in islam, then we are making it a choo choo ka muarabba