PAWS » Islam http://pawspakistan.org Pakistan Animal Welfare Society Mon, 21 May 2012 08:59:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Islam and Animal Rights http://pawspakistan.org/2011/08/02/islam-and-animal-rights-2/ http://pawspakistan.org/2011/08/02/islam-and-animal-rights-2/#comments Mon, 01 Aug 2011 19:39:32 +0000 MO http://pawspakistan.org/?p=1346 Continue reading →]]> Maneka Gandhi in SouthAsia Magazine:

Cruelty to animals is strongly condemned in the Qur’an and the Hadith of the Prophet and punishments are provided for it. Most of the Sahih Hadith collections have Abdullah Ibn Umar’s report, “The Prophet cursed the one who treated animals harshly.”  Al-‘Asqalani specified that “The cursing indicates that the action is prohibited. Whoever treats harshly a living being and then does not repent, God will treat him just as harshly on judgment day.” Abdullah Ibn Umar reported that the Prophet said: “A woman went to hell because of a cat that she confined and did not feed or allow to feed.”

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