Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Can I buy Non Halal food for my Pet

Salam aleikum wa rahmatullah. Welcome to brothers sisters I hope

you guys are doing very well. Masha Allah, Allah subhanaw taala

bless all of us. So I want to speak about something today very

quickly, which many people would be surprised about and Hamdulillah

I mean, in my trials, I found there's a lot of people with pets

especially cats, Mashallah. And a lot of people don't know that if

you just by the normal, readily available pet food and cat food

that you find out there a lot of is haram. In fact,

one of the studies showed that even those that have just fished

fish and so on, that also includes other aspects and it can't be

guaranteed because they're not that particular budget when it

comes to pets and so on. Now, what's really interesting is that

you're not allowed actually. And I remember the first time I found

out about this many, many years ago it was it came as quite a bit

of a surprise to me that you can't feed your pet haram you can't feed

a cat I mean, the cat you know you can't feed haram neither can you

feed dogs Haram as such. So where does this come from? Well,

firstly, there's a hadith in Sahih al Bukhari from Jabba ignore

Abdullah the Allahu anhu, where he said that he heard the Prophet

sallallahu alayhi wa sallam on the day of the his entry, and victory

in Macomb, Karima. Right. That was the day where the Prophet

sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said that Allah and His Prophet, Allah

and His Messenger has made unlawful the trade of alcohol and

dead animals carry on write pigs and idols. So essentially, when

you buy cat food, you are trading in Haram. And number two, the

other bigger problem is that you actually bring haram into your

house to feed your cat, I mean, that that should go against you

know, any aspect of sensitivity, I mean, that we have towards these

things. So then also, I mean, if I just take a few one or two quotes

from the Hanafi scholars, you've got fatawa copy Han, which is a

very, very famous book, Imam colicky in there mentions that

likewise, the dead animals, so most of the stuff that is not I

mean, nearly everything that is not slaughtered properly,

according to the Islamic rituals as such, right? Where they cut it

properly and, and so on, then that is considered a major or a

carrying right in our faith. And he says what can radicalize Mita

likewise carrying meaning anything that is not sorted properly or

that has died on its own label to a mohawk killer, but you should

not even feed that to his dog Liana vedika indifferent, because

that is a method of benefiting from carrion and is not allowed to

benefit from carrying in that way. Likewise, in the fatawa, India, it

says wakad was one of our scholars, our jurists, they say

the ledgers are indifferent, or bill may, Tatiana Aug him? What

are you to enable her elke lab,

they say that it is not permitted to benefit through carrying dead

meat, essentially, non ritually slaughtered meat in any way

whatsoever, and you cannot feed even his cats, right? So his dogs

mentioned there. So that might come as a big surprise to a lot of

you. And so what do we do now? Right? So there's some people who

know about this already, because we get asked the questions and

they prepare their own meals, they give them you know, scraps or

leftovers from their own food that they could cook at home. But of

course, that's not always easy to do. And that's complicated

sometimes right? Now, look, if your pet does go out, your cat

goes out eats from the neighbor's house, for example. They feed it

something that's not that's not an issue because you're not doing

that right. Likewise, if it goes and eat something haram about so

whatever it is, that's its problem. That's not something that

but we can't actively feed it something right. We can't actively

feed it something haram that's the thing. So you can either cook for

yourself, right? Or, you know, that's but now at hamdulillah Al

Hamdulillah. You know, I've been some this company mashallah

brother, Tisha, I'm from Herrera, pet foods, right? Herrera, pet

foods. Hooray. Oh, by the way, in between, right coming from the

name of Abu Huraira really, Allah wants even Abu Huraira the Allahu

Anhu he was given that name, though. His name was Abdul Rahman

who suffer Right? Or the Allahu Anhu because he had a little kit

so it was an appropriate name Haryana means a small kids and you

know, a kitten basically. So it's very appropriately named cat food,

essentially pet food rather. And so hamdulillah what really

interesting they, they they've gone to Malaysia they've gone to

you know, get get something from the best source available, very

nutritious and so on. Let them explain that to you. Right. I'm

here to tell you that mashallah they also HMC approved. That's an

amazing it's one of the first pet foods that are HMC approved Halal

monitoring committee that's been approved by them, Ma sha Allah so

go to Herrera pet foods right if you want to check this out and

subscribe, right especially if you're a if you're a cat owner,

and you want to feed it once they launched then they'll let you know

and why am I doing this? You know, what do I get number one to let

people know Right? Primarily that even pets need to be fed halal

food, right? Anything which is halal, right. But number two

The what sweeten the deal for for me and made this you know

something more beneficial for us is that white thread which is our

organization has a huge debt and mashallah Herrera pet foods is

willing to donate a certain amount in Sharla for every subscription

they receive, so go to her ala Halal pet foods so the website is

Hurairah pet foods should be on the screenshot Allah or underneath

and you you register basically and from this from the

where it says Where did you hear about us choose white thread insha

Allah and that way once you start starts subscribing, inshallah we

get insha Allah eventually we will get a donation for white thread

Alhamdulillah spread this as far as possible if you're a cat owner

or you know a cat owner send it to them, send it to others, you know

who you know have pets mashallah and May May this be a good venture

and may we find Halal in many other things. May Allah suffices

with the halal away from the haram. Right and this is all part

of were encouraged by Allah Subhana Allah and His messenger to

look after our pets. Right. And part of that is also that we can't

give it haram and we want to feed her we definitely don't want to

bring haram into our homes. That's what we definitely want. I want to

do Insha Allah, so does that go ahead and we hope for many other

ventures like this that are providing Halal in our community.

Allah bless you all. And please pray for wait through as well. And

As salam o Alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh