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You may ask him to give you other sweets if he wishes that are not offered to any deity. I am sure that your friend will understand your religious sensibility and not offer you this prasad.<\/p>\n<p>Regards,<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answered by:<\/strong> Mushafiq Sultan<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> 2017-12-23<\/p>\n<button class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"6959\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Favorite <i class=\"sf-icon-star-empty\"><\/i><\/button>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The element of Shirk is what makes foods offered to deities besides God prohibited to eat and such a food item cannot obviously be consumed by a faithful Muslim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11700,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1363,1332,1162],"tags":[1563,2766,2404,2765,2764],"class_list":["post-6959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dietary-directives","category-god-and-monotheism","category-social-issues","tag-hindu","tag-prasad","tag-shirk","tag-2765","tag-2764"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Can a Muslim eat Prasaad? 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