Dog-are they dirty, prohibited animals? (Discussion based on Islam)

[BDforever]

It is traditional among Muslims all over the world to regard the dog as a dirty animal that when touched would void the wudu (ablution) and infect the one who touched it with "nagasah" (dirty impurity)!

Sadly, this concept comes from fabricated hadith which claims that the Prophet ordered the killing of dogs and gave numerous hadith that prohibit the keeping of dogs except for hunting and guarding, due to their dirty status!

However, by studying the Quran we find no such truth. No where in the Quran are dogs prohibited, nor is there any mention of any contaminating effect of these lovely animals who are man's best friend. Consequently, we must dismiss all these hadith that fabricate lies against the Prophet.

1- God tells us in the Quran about the story of the dwellers of the Cave (Surah 18). In verse 13 God tells us that they weregood believers and that God guided them. In verse 18 God tells us that they had their dog with them.

Now if dogs are prohibited and dirty, would God speak of those dwellers of the Cave (who had a dog) as good believers?

2- In 5:4 God tells us that it is okay to eat what the trained dogs catch (dogs are used in hunting). Now if the dog is an animal which causes contamination by mere touch, would God tell us it is perfectly okay to eat what the dog catches with his mouth (let alone just touch the dog)?

3- The Quran contains a very important rule for all believers, and the rule is:

Nothing is haram (unlawful) unless it is prohibited by God Himself, and since God describes the Quran as complete, perfect and fully detailed, thus all the prohibitions decreed by God are found in the Quran. The following Quranic verses confirm this truth:
“Say, "Who prohibited the nice things God has created for His creatures, and the good provisions?" Say, "Such provisions are to be enjoyed in this life by those who believe. Moreover, the good provisions will be exclusively theirs on the Day of Resurrection." We thus explain the revelations for people who know.” 7:32

“Shall I seek other than God as a source of law, when He has revealed to you this book fully detailed?”6:114

“You shall not utter lies with your own tongues stating: "This is halal (lawful), and this is haram (unlawful)," to fabricate lies and attribute them to God. Surely, those who fabricate lies and attribute them to God will never succeed.” 16:116


There is not one verse in the Quran where God says that dogs are dirty or that they are prohibited to keep.

4- Is it logical that God would create an animal to be man's best friend and serve him in many ways, and then prohibit such an animal?

5- If this is what the Quran has to tell us about the issue of dogs, then where does all the prohibition come from? Where do the claims that dogs are dirty animals which if touched would void our ablution and render us impure come from? As most other corruptions which have crept into Islam, the source is always the fabricated hadith which are falsely attributed to prophet Muhammad!

Hadith tell us that the Prophet prohibited the keeping of dogs as pets. Other hadith tell us that angels won't enter a room where there is a dog. Other hadith tell us that if we touch a dog our ablution is void and we become impure, and that we have to wash seven times to clean this impurity, the final time in dust. That seems inconsistent with the Quran saying you may eat what they catch for you! Some other hadith go even beyond that to say that we must kill all black dogs!

The following are some examples:

Malik's Muwatta, Book 54, Number 54.5.13:



"Malik related from Nafi from Abdullah Ibn Umar that the Messenger of God ordered all dogs (other than sheepdogs or hunting dogs) to be killed".



Ibn Hanbal's collection: The Messenger of God said:



"You shall kill all black dogs, because they are devils."



The question is: Did the Prophet really issue these prohibitions? In addition, did the Prophet have the authority to issue these prohibitions?

The answer is given in the Quran:

"O you prophet, why do you prohibit what God has made lawful in order to please your wives? God is Forgiver Merciful"66:1

Obviously God did not include the words in 66:1 in the Quran to belittle the Prophet in our eyes, but these words are placed in the Quran in order to confirm to all believers across all time that the Messenger of God does not have the authority to prohibit anything which is not prohibited by God. God is the only Law Maker (6:114) and the only duty of the messenger is to deliver God's message (5:92).

The outcome of all the above is that we must discard all the lies attributed to the prophet regarding prohibiting dogs and be focused on the Quran as the only source of guidance and religious law.

sourcee: Quran-Islam.org - True Islam

 

[untitled]

Now if dogs are prohibited and dirty, would God speak of those dwellers of the Cave (who had a dog) as good believers?

From what I understand that dog was a guard dog not a pet

Here is another story regarding Prophet Mohammed (SAW)

On the way to a battle, the Prophet army marched towards Makkah (now known as Mecca) to conquer it, they passed a female dog with puppies. The Prophet not only gave orders that the mother dog and puppies should not be hurt or disturbed, but posted a man to see that this was done

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By the way why do you have a cat in your profile pic ?

 

[BDforever]

From what I understand that dog was a guard dog not a pet

Here is another story regarding Prophet Mohammed (SAW)



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By the way why do you have a cat in your profile pic ?

i like cats they are comedians

 

[untitled]

i like cats they are comedians

How many do you have ?

I like cats but not as pets though. I love cat videos too

 

[BDforever]

How many do you have ?

I like cats but not as pets though. I love cat videos too

i don't have now because flat community does not allow pet here, i used to have 3-4 cats lol

 

[Indus Pakistan]

I have a dog and those who think they dirty are stupid. They are no more filthy then humans. Hygiene is important aspect of humans but many neglect this. It is upto each of us to be clean.

My dog is all things in one. Gaurd, pet blended togather.

 

[Rajaraja Chola]

Nothing is haram (unlawful) unless it is prohibited by God Himself, and since God describes the Quran as complete, perfect and fully detailed, thus all the prohibitions decreed by God are found in the Quran. The following Quranic verses confirm this truth:

If God, according to Muslims, have declared something as Haram, then why create it? Testing humans?
Pigs should have never been created by this logic. God can tests us in various issues, but testing our compliance in eating issues will be His lowest priority

 

[Indus Pakistan]

If God, according to Muslims, have declared something as Haram, then why create it? Testing humans?
Pigs should have never been created by this logic. God can tests us in various issues, but testing our compliance in eating issues will be His lowest priority

How Cow?

His lowest priority

The dead beef eating guy's in India would disagree.

 

[untitled]

If God, according to Muslims, have declared something as Haram, then why create it? Testing humans?
Pigs should have never been created by this logic. God can tests us in various issues, but testing our compliance in eating issues will be His lowest priority

Issue here is not whether is it permissible to eat dogs or not
The issue here is why Muslims generally avoid dogs as pets and or as they are treated here in the west as 'family members' with some some even given a share in inheritance.

Yes Allah does test us in many ways
How can we truly enjoy health if don't know about sickness
How can we enjoy piece if we don't know about the horrors of war
That is why he created animals that were good and bad for us

 

[CHD]

How Cow?

The dead beef eating guy's in India would disagree.

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

Muslim countries are far behind in Animal Rights, western society is more compassionate to animals and even Human rights

 

[xyxmt]

If God, according to Muslims, have declared something as Haram, then why create it? Testing humans?
Pigs should have never been created by this logic. God can tests us in various issues, but testing our compliance in eating issues will be His lowest priority

same as why God created a rapist, God must know if some man is going to be a murderer but yet God created him.
Everything God created have a purpose on this earth and that purpose is not just human eating it.

 

[Ghareeb_Da_Baal]

 

[Styx]

dogs are great, what's all the fuss about them in Islam ?

 

[Luffy 500]

Problems with people (liberals) who write such non-sense article is that they r not ready to accept the clearly defined rulings in islam. They r too intellectually colonized by liberalism of the west and want conform islam to their way of life. They want to go after their desires but also want to keep the muslim label. How to do it? The only way is to twist Quranic verses or take bits and pieces out of context and come up with interpretations that fit their preconceived conclusions.

They normally don't accept hadith as it doesn't help in their agenda . Without the sunnah of the prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) u can't understand the Quran. Its simple as that. They only way u can do intellectual gymnastics with interpretations of the Quran is via discarding hadith and then u can interpret a verse anyway u like. Make haram what is halal and halal what is haram. And hence u hear obscure notions like "polygamy is uncivilized", "sharia is barbaric" , "jins don't exist" , "homosexuality is ok", "hijab/niqab is cultural and not islamic" etc etc.

Not only are they ignorant and don't care abt learning islamic sciences , they vilify islamic scholars and those who doesn't agree with them. Really colonized slaves of the west to the core.

Ruling on having a dog - islamqa.info

According to Islaamic Sharee’ah, it is not permitted to keep a dog except within narrowly-defined limits, as the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) explained: "Whoever keeps a dog, his good deeds will decrease every day by one qeeraat (a unit of measurement), unless it is a dog for farming or herding." According to another report: ". . . unless it is a dog for herding sheep, farming or hunting." (Reported by al-Bukhaari, al-Fath, 2322)


Dogs are extremely naajis (impure, unclean). The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: "If a dog drinks from the vessel of any one of you, let him wash it seven times" (reported by Muslim, no. 279). According to another report: ". . . and clean it the eighth time with earth." (Saheeh Muslim, no. 280).

It is forbidden in Islaam to sell a dog and to receive payment for it, as is reported in Saheeh al-Bukhaari from Abu Mas’oud al-Ansaari: the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) forbade (accepting) the price of a dog. (al-Fath, no. 2237)

The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) told us not to resemble dogs by placing our forearms on the ground during sujood (prostration), as in reported in the hadeeth narrated by Anas ibn Maalik, according to which the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: "Do sujood properly; none of you should spread his forearms like a dog does." (al-Bukhaari, Fath, no. 822).

Whoever keeps a dog in his house is denied the blessing of the angels’ presence in his house, as the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: "The angels do not enter a house in which there is a dog." (Reported by al-Bukhaari, 3225).

Keeping dogs nowadays is the habit of the kuffaar, who adopt them as friends, kiss them, let them lick them and their clothes, sleep with them and even leave them money in their wills. Keeping a dog is an imitation of the kuffaar. Some Muslims may claim that they need to keep a dog at home for purposes of protection, to which we respond that nowadays there are burglar alarm systems and other measures one may take for security purposes, and there is no need to keep a dog, praise be to Allaah.

It only remains for us to say that the fact that it is forbidden to keep a dog and interect closely with it does not mean that we should not be kind or feel compassion towards dogs if we see them in a pitiful state. These are two entirely separate matters. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) told us that "a man saw a dog biting the dust because of thirst, so he took his shoe and started to scoop water up with it until the dog’s thirst was quenched. Allaah appreciated his good deed and granted him entry to Paradise for it." (Reported by al-Bukhaari, no. 174).

According to another report, the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: "Whilst a man was walking he became very thirsty, so he went down to a well and drank from it. When he came out, he saw a dog panting and biting the soil because of thirst. The man said, ‘He is suffering the same as I suffered,’ so he filled his shoe (with water), came out and let the dog drink until his thirst was quenched. Allaah appreciated his good deed and forgave him because of it." The people asked, "O Messenger of Allaah, will we be rewarded for how we treat animals?" He said, "In every living thing there is a reward." (Reported by al-Bukhaari, Fath, no. 2363).

We do not want to omit reminding you of the importance of reading the Qur’aan properly and referring to it. You say in your question that the story of the thirsty dog is in the Qur’aan, and that is not the case, as it is reported in the Sunnah.

And Allaah knows best.