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Question 13: Can a Muḥrim eat fragrant food, aniseed, betel nuts,
creamy biscuits, toffees, etc.
Answer: There is no harm in eating the fragrance cooked in food
even if fragrance is still emanating from it. Similarly, if fragrance
is not added at the time of cooking but after the cooking, and
the fragrance has vanished, eating that meal is also permissible. If
uncooked fragrance is mixed into food or medicine, and the amount
of fragrance exceeds that of odourless food or medicine, the ruling
for pure fragrance will apply in this case, and expiation will be due.
If such fragrance comes into contact with most part of the mouth,
Dam will be Wājib. If it comes into contact with lesser part of the
mouth, Ṣadaqaĥ will be Wājib. If the amount of grain etc. exceeds
that of pure fragrance, there will be no expiation. If pure fragrance
emanates from such food, it is Makrūĥ Tanzīĥī to eat it.
Question 14: How is it to have soft drinks, fragrance-added beverages,
fruit-juices, etc.
Answer: If sandalwood fragrance is added to the beverage, it is
allowed to drink it because sandalwood fragrance is cooked before
being added to the beverage. If an essence is also added to the
beverage to make it fragrant, it is usually added to the cooked
beverage after it has been cooled. The essence is obviously added to
the beverage in small amount. The ruling on this type of essenceadded
beverage is that if a Muḥrim has drunk it three times or
more, Dam will be due otherwise Ṣadaqaĥ.
It is stated in Baĥār-e-Sharī’at: If a Muḥrim has drunk a fragranceadded
beverage, Dam will be due provided fragrance is in large
amount. If the fragrance is in small amount but the Muḥrim has
drunk such a beverage three times or more, Dam will be due otherwise
Ṣadaqaĥ. (Baĥār-e-Sharī’at, vol. 1, pp. 1165)