ALL ANIMAL GELATINE IS HARAAM

Q. Some Ulama are of the view that animal gelatine is halaal even if the raw material is from animals slaughtered un-Islamically or even from pigs. They claim that the gelatine is the end product of a process in which total change takes place. Is this correct?
A. Tabdeelul Maahiyat means metamorphosis or a complete change of one substance into another substance which has its own independent existence with its own distinct properties. The popular example given in our kitaabs is that of a dead animal in a saltpan. Putrefaction in time totally transforms the animal into salt. Not a vestige of the animal remains. It is only salt and nothing but salt. This salt is halaal. Tabdeelul Maahiyat has occurred.
Another example is liquor changing into vinegar. These are two entirely different, independent substances. The resultant liquor which is formed from vinegar is not a hybrid substance such as bread for example. In bread-baking there is also a change. In fact a total change from the flour and the other raw ingredients into bread which is not the flour, etc. But the Shariah does not regard metamorphosis as having taken place in bread-baking. Hence if the flour is najis, (impure) or some urine is added to the mixture, or any haraam ingredient, the resultant bread will be haraam despite bread being another item apart from flour.
When an impure substance is burnt and reduced to ash, Tabdeedul Maahiyat has taken place, hence the ash is taahir (paak/pure). Ash is not a hybrid substance. It is an independent substance, not a hybrid substance.
In gelatine manufacture no such metamorphosis occurs. We have explained the process in detail in our book, titled, GELATINE.
Gelatine is a hybrid product such as bread, cake, jam, pudding, ice-cream, etc., etc., etc. It is made from 100% haraam items, including a considerable amount of pork products. The end product stinks and will rot if not refrigerated. It is most assuredly not an independent substance which exists in nature for example. Thus gelatine made from haraam substances is haraam. If you see gelatine manufacture, you will be so nauseated that even if the raw materials are halaal, you will shrink from consuming it.

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