Must Cat Food Be Halal? | Religious Guilt | Mufti Abu Layth

i saw somebody somebody sent me sorry a clip about some kind of halal cat food okay actual halal cat food and it said some slogan like um you know the opportunity to to to you know to feed your cat guilt-free food or something like this like basically you know now you can rid yourself of the guilt and feed your cat some [Music] some food um

and right so yeah and and i look i don't know maybe people have good intentions when they do things maybe people are trying to help other people maybe and you know may allah bless their intention bless their heart and reward them on their intention okay but these things are truly

you know i'm not sure whether it's a laugh or cry of fear because it's islam has become something so artificial that it is now islamic to feed your cat let's say or feed your dog or i don't know feed your rabbit or suppose they probably or to feed them halal certified you know food it's like like let's just pause that for a moment you

see you go to the lifetime of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam and the companions and islam was a real thing it wasn't this kind of fanciful phenomenon this structured superimposed artificial layer filter that's kind of like a show to the world or you know it wasn't it was just a real lived thing like they the sahabas

you know they were sahaba they would have been people from the prophet's time that had cats that had dogs like abhorred had many cats other people had cats there were dogs as well i know there's this whole discussion of the of the dogs and that's something we can cover another day but in bukhari mentions the dogs used to come in and out of the prophet's masjid in the early days they were always there but used to sleep in the masjid he narrates that says the dogs used to come in and out of the masjid i used to sleep here and so look these things were there they had other animals and yes you know these herbivores

carnivores but they there isn't look the animals are not much love okay they're not um like you don't take your dog on hajj like to do hajj okay it's not like i'm taking my cat i'm taking my parrot with me to to you know go on the hajj and we're gonna the parrot's gonna do its hajj as well whilst i do my in many ways it's kind of it's it's really on some grounds it appears maybe people haven't got this intention but it appears to ridicule you know just to be silly that this it's kind of got to a silly state of affairs

that people are like well you know hey i've got like a lot of the saudis and you know they have all these tigers pet tigers don't they pet tigers and pet lions and there's this obsession they i mean don't get me wrong i totally admire you know lions and tigers but i mean i don't know how you'd have it as a pet but sure i mean they they seem to and they really get on with it and uh but it's not gonna be well hey i'm taking my tiger you know on umrah with me or you know it's time to pray salah now or you know it's not this is like a very artificial it's perspective on islam

islam is about your connection with god and that there isn't this people shouldn't be feeling guilty that oh my god i've got a tiger and the tiger eats meat i'm feeling guilty what's wrong with this guy why is he feeling guilty [Laughter] that's what they do you know they they carnivores they they eat meat so what are you gonna do like i know to make it feel better i'm gonna i'm gonna

do the biah meat [Laughter] the goat and the bakra and the cow is going to be like you don't feel guilty for them they're going to be thinking ignore my don't worry about my life hey i'm an extra i'm an extra so the point is that look nature has its laws and it has its world but you don't need to as a human being be kind of carrying religious guilt i get it if you're concerned about animal cruelty that's a different discussion

sure that's a wonderful discussion but to think well i'm carrying religious guilt like did this you know is this cat or dog or whatever is this animal this pet practicing according to islam i mean you know they don't practice going to islam they're not human beings okay so yeah

yeah so these are uh are kind of the things but i saw this and it was just like hmm you know what do you what does a person make of that you