Islam and Dogs(animal)

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Re: Islam and Dogs(animal)

@Bint_e_Naeem

Glad to see someone open this thread. I was planning on opening one myself soon.

From what I recently read somewhere. There is an incident where a dog enters a Masjid & urinates on the Masjid floor prompting the Sahabas at the time to rush to him & to kick him out of the Masjid. When Prophet SAW notices what is happening he instructs the Sahabas to be gentle with the animal & not make a big fuss of it. Just clean the wet area & continue praying including on the supposed “dirty” spot. As it is, in the Prophet SAW’s era dogs freely used to roam around even inside a Masjid. A place that Is obviously considered the purest of all places.

Apparently it’s only the saliva of dogs that is considered impure due to the fact that they do have a habit of snooping around even in the dirtiest corners.

Also it is true that an animal hunted by a dog is considered Halal provided you take Allah’s name & make “Neeyat” for the kill before letting the dog start hunting.

Now dogs do salivate a lot so how do we keep one in a house/apartment without having it’s saliva all over the place is what personally stopped me from adopting one.

Will keep a close eye on this thread. It might hopefully change my views.

one of the bestest post ever.