Can i make and sell leather - skirts, mini skirts, panties.
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I
manufacture leather jackets, pants, skirts.
my
question is can i make and sell leather - skirts, mini skirts, panties,
underwears, bras, bustiers, shorts, bondage leather items.
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Answer:
Leather manufacture items
In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His help and ask
for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever
He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We bear witness that
there is none worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that
Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 23 Surah Muminoon
verses 21-22:
21 And in cattle (too) ye have an instructive example: from within
their bodies We produce (milk) for you to drink; there are in them
(besides) numerous (other) benefits for you; and of their (meat) ye
eat;
22 And on them as well as in ships ye ride.
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 36 Surah
Yaa Seen verses 71-73:
71 See they not that it is We Who have created for them among the
things which Our Hands have fashioned: cattle, which are under their dominion?
72 And that We have subjected them to their (use)? Of them some do
carry them and some they eat:
73 And they have (other) profits from them (besides); and they get (milk) to drink.
Will they not then be grateful?
The absolute majority of the scholars and jurists in Islam
are of the opinion that amongst the ‘other’ benefits of animals as related in
the Glorious Quran imply the usage of their skins, fur, wool, hair, etc.
Fiqh-us-Sunnah Fiqh 1.15
Purifying the skin of dead animals
Tanning purifies the skin and the fur of a
dead animal. This is based on the hadith of Ibn 'Abbas, in which the Prophet
(saws) said, "If the animal's skin is tanned, it is purified."
Related by al-Bukhari and Muslim.
Sunan of Abu-DawoodHadith 659 Narrated by Al-Mughirah ibn Shu'bah
The Messenger of Allah (saws) used to pray on
a mat and on a tanned skin.
The scholars and jurists in Islam are unanimous in their
opinion that the tanned skin of all animals (except the swine and the dog) is
considered absolutely pure for the believers to wear or use as they will.
Thus provided the leather one deals or transacts in not
from the dog or the swine, to the best of our knowledge there is absolutely nothing
in the Quran or the Sunnah which prohibits the believers if one chooses to
manufacture lawful items from leather like clothing, apparel, accessories, bags,
shoes, etc.
Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only due to
Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me alone. Allah Alone Knows Best and He is the Only
Source of Strength.
Your brother and
well wisher in Islam,
Burhan