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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,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":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 v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Can a Muslim eat Prasaad? 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This article explains the theological and linguistic reasons behind that distinction.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Faith and Beliefs&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Faith and Beliefs","link":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/category\/faith-and-beliefs\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/christians-montheists-polytheists.webp?fit=630%2C375&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/christians-montheists-polytheists.webp?fit=630%2C375&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/christians-montheists-polytheists.webp?fit=630%2C375&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":6187,"url":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/religious-training-of-the-children\/","url_meta":{"origin":6959,"position":3},"title":"Religious Training Of The Children","author":"admin","date":"July 10, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"I heard in a lecture by Javed Ahmed Ghamdi that we should give \"understanding to our kids about tawheed (unicity of God) and shirk (polytheism)\". Honestly I grew up in a Muslim family but nobody gave us this understanding. \u201cEverything is just there\u201d kind of thing and now being living\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Education&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Education","link":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/category\/education\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Queries.png?fit=800%2C450&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Queries.png?fit=800%2C450&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Queries.png?fit=800%2C450&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Queries.png?fit=800%2C450&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":5934,"url":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/status-of-meat-prepared-by-christians\/","url_meta":{"origin":6959,"position":4},"title":"Status Of Meat Prepared By Christians","author":"admin","date":"July 10, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"I live in Athens (Greece) which, as you know, is a non-Muslim society. 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