Question Summary:
Secret Recipe

Question Detail:

I am a work from home Muslimah managing to meet ends. I have started selling marinated meat. Alhamdulillah many people do like it. I have been getting many phone calls from people requesting for my recipe. Is it permissible for me not to disclose it?

Answer :

In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

As-salāmu ‘alaykum wa-rahmatullāhi wa-barakātuh.

It is permissible for you not to disclose the recipe.

And Allah Ta’āla Knows Best

Huzaifah Deedat

Student Darul Iftaa
Lusaka, Zambia 

Checked and Approved by,
Mufti Ebrahim Desai.

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An Introduction to Islamic Finance; Mufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani D.B-‘Secrecy of the business’