Question
The butchery where I buy my meat and chickens from writes the weight on after having frozen the products. After freezing, the meat weighs a bit more. Is this permissible?
Answer
It is haraam to weigh the products after having frozen them. The extra weight is the frozen water. It is just like adding a bit of sand to wheat and weighing it. This is indeed a very grave sin. What the butchery is doing is fraud according to the Shariah, and giving under-weight.
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- The Majlis Vol 21 No 05
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