{"id":18450,"date":"2022-06-26T17:45:12","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T22:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ask-a-muslim.com\/?p=18450"},"modified":"2024-08-29T13:16:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T18:16:12","slug":"is-being-a-vegan-or-vegetarian-allowed-in-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ask-a-muslim.com\/en\/is-being-a-vegan-or-vegetarian-allowed-in-islam\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Being a Vegan or Vegetarian Allowed in Islam?"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Being a vegan or a vegetarian is completely okay in Islam, but the problem comes if one thinks that eating animal products is immoral or haram. Allah Says in The Noble Quran (interpretation of meaning), &#8220;O believers! Do not forbid the good things which Allah has made lawful for you, and do not transgress. Indeed, Allah does not like transgressors.&#8221; (Quran 5:87). Therefore, if one wants to follow this lifestyle, that is fine, but one shouldn&#8217;t think that this way of life is better than what Allah said.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>And Allah Knows best.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being a vegan or a vegetarian is completely okay in Islam, but the problem comes if one thinks that eating animal products is immoral or haram. Allah Says in The Noble Quran (interpretation of meaning), &#8220;O believers! Do not forbid the good things which Allah has made lawful for you, and do not transgress. Indeed, &#8230; <a title=\"Is Being a Vegan or Vegetarian Allowed in Islam?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ask-a-muslim.com\/en\/is-being-a-vegan-or-vegetarian-allowed-in-islam\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Is Being a Vegan or Vegetarian Allowed in Islam?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[119,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misconceptions","category-responses-to-allegations"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"gform-image-choice-sm":false,"gform-image-choice-md":false,"gform-image-choice-lg":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Ask A Muslim","author_link":"https:\/\/www.ask-a-muslim.com\/en\/author\/fulan\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Being a vegan or a vegetarian is completely okay in Islam, but the problem comes if one thinks that eating animal products is immoral or haram. 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