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Recordings › Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth 173 · 14 Jul 2020 › Segment 33 of 42

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Is it haram to eat dog meat?

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Is eating dog haram? Not forbidden is not the same as eaten

QuestionLive chat · questioner not identifiedAnswered 14 Jul 2020Segment 33 of 42 in the recording2020-07-14-S33

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Dog is not haram in the school of Madinah, which follows Quran 6:145, but not being haram does not mean people eat it.

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A chat question asks whether eating dog is haram. Mufti Abu Layth says dogs are not haram according to the school of Madinah, but people do not eat them, and that it is a mistake to think that whatever is not haram is something people eat; diet is usually cultural. He notes that some Malikis disagreed and tried to make many things haram, but the general view follows Quran 6:145, which says nothing is forbidden to eat except carrion, blood, pig and what is sacrificed to other than God. He says other scholars reason their way to more prohibitions, which is up to them, but he follows the school of Madinah; monkeys, for example, are not haram yet nobody eats them. He then learns that CK2 is a video game and jokes about strange things people ask.

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Is eating dog haram?

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Mufti Abu Layth says dogs are not haram to eat according to the school of Madinah, though people do not really eat them.

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“it's not Haram in the Sharia to eat it so dogs are not Haram but people don't really eat dogs”

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right love you Mufti a very fair shukran shukran Akhil hon love you too yeah reptiles yep if I bro if I do incest in ck2 am i doing Haram what does that mean what ck to Calvin Klein I don't get the question if I'm doing harming Calvin Klein

1:54:56

yo Mufti is eating dog Ernie Dumas if he swims amis eating dog dogs even you see dogs are not Haram but people don't eat them according to the school of Medina and they're not really Haram but it's not people look not you see this this is where it gets dumb yeah because people think oh if it's not Haram then what do you do a new a new begorrah eating soil but it's not Haram though priests will oh not just because it's not Haram doesn't mean people eat it okay so it's not it you know human beings have a kind

1:55:35

of diet they have a food it's usually cultural but it's not Haram in the Sharia to eat it so dogs are not Haram but people don't really eat dogs the Mauna Kea some Maliki's did by the way this isn't the Maliki method did disagree between itself some tried to make many things Haram but the main the the general view is a bucket of no order we will say any stuff see Rock another thing the verse of the Quran cool Agito ila harriman Allah thought I mean I'm the verse of the Quran that say I do not find anything Haram upon somebody who

1:56:14

wants to eat except these four things and it was just Pig and something that's already been killed or sacrificed in the name of a pagan god and so on that's it otherwise there is nothing that's what the Quran says there is nothing Haram other than that so we're just going with the Quran now I understand other scholars go with the logic and they make many things Haram it's fine that's up to them but that's how you know school of Medina that's what I'm with but it doesn't mean that they eat these things so for example you know monkeys are not Haram to eat but nobody eats them or they shouldn't be eating them so I mean

1:56:53

it doesn't mean just because something people don't eat it should be Haram if I'm just clear on that right so if your dog could swim really so does need to swim any role silver or any ha ha ha so Muftis critical thinking important hell yeah it's very important hell yeah right where's my Facebook I'm not seeing the Facebook questions let me see mostly please my question somebody said Rd to monkey okay well see

1:57:32

x2 is a VDC k2 is a video game ah is that what it is okay but if you said the person was asking to commit incest in ck to strange strange strange fetishes that people have thought about Thor but what is the world coming to

1:58:01

all right so salsa so what's going down people fear Ameen Azam has used 20 stars you doing it you doing it Rami ha ha that question by the way I mean that name in in some Pakistani dialects I'm not so sure if you know what it means yes a Rami that is better I go ha Rami

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