Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!jarthur!nntp-server.caltech.edu!bes From: raza@cs.heriot-watt.ac.uk (Z. Raza Hussain) Newsgroups: soc.religion.islam Subject: is leather ok? Message-ID: <1991Feb14.190227.19822@nntp-server.caltech.edu> Date: 14 Feb 91 19:02:27 GMT Sender: bes@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Behnam Sadeghi) Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Lines: 8 Approved: bes@tybalt.caltech.edu can someone please answer this simple question? what i'd like to know is whether or not it's okay to wear leather jackets possibly made from haraam leather? presumably this applies to things like shoes, belts and even perhaps sitting on a leather sofa (chair) !