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  • Cannibalism Due To Circumstances Acceptable?

    Posted by Sonia on June 11, 2025 at 2:04 pm

    If circumstances are such there is no food — no plants, no animals — and only human bodies, would cannibalism be acceptable according to Islam?

    Situations like these have arises in war zones and after genocides.

    Sonia replied 21 hours, 44 minutes ago 2 Members · 5 Replies
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  • Cannibalism Due To Circumstances Acceptable?

    Sonia updated 21 hours, 44 minutes ago 2 Members · 5 Replies
  • Dr. Irfan Shahzad

    Scholar June 11, 2025 at 10:18 pm

    It is already stated in the Qur’an that in the sate of compulsion of desperation to eat a haram food is allowed only to avoid death.

  • Sonia

    Member June 12, 2025 at 1:47 am

    Thanks

  • Sonia

    Member June 12, 2025 at 1:53 am

    But the list of haram food doesnt include human beings- hence this question.

  • Dr. Irfan Shahzad

    Scholar June 12, 2025 at 4:21 am

    The Quran did not provide a list. The prohibition of eating a human being is beyond question.

  • Sonia

    Member June 12, 2025 at 7:08 am

    Yes that’s what I meant. Eating a human being is so unacceptable that perhaps even in case of no option it couldn’t be allowed …. there is a list of haram things (flesh of swine, blood, carrion 5:3, 16:115) and what I understand is the exception to eat them in absence of any halal food is restricted just to those foods…. human beings won’t still be permissible even if there is a genocide and there’s nothing to eat. That’s why I asked.

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