Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Can I buy Non Halal food for my Pet
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The issue of pets and their behavior is discussed, including their pets' eating habits and their pets' behavior. They also mention a study showing that cats and dogs are not allowed to feed pets and the importance of bringing pets into one's homes to avoid causing rodents to eat. The speaker suggests bringing cats into one's homes to feed them, as it is considered a MAC-B-King and may have carrion. They also discuss the problem of pets eating certain pet foods, including their cat and mouse, and mention a Pet Foods in Huraira Pet Foods.
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Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh, brothers and sisters, I hope
you guys are doing very well.
MashaAllah, Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala bless all of
us.
So I want to speak about something today
very quickly, which many people would be surprised
about and Alhamdulillah, I mean in my travels,
I found there's a lot of people with
pets, especially cats MashaAllah and a lot of
people don't know that if you just buy
the normal readily available pet food and cat
food that you find out there, a lot
of In fact, one of the studies showed
that even those that have just fish and
so on, that also includes other aspects and
it can't be guaranteed because they're not that
particular about it 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 became 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 it 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 Jabir Ibn Abdillah radiyallahu anhu, where
he said that he heard the prophet salallahu
alayhi wasalam on the day of his entry
and victory in Makkah Mukarramah, right?
That was the day where the prophet salallahu
alayhi wasalam said that Allah and his prophet,
Allah and his messenger has made unlawful the
trade of alcohol and dead animals, carrion, right?
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're actually bringing
haram into your house to feed your cat.
I mean 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 Qadi Khan,
which is a very very famous book, Imam
Karhi 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 so on,
then that is considered a maitah or a
carrion, right?
In our faith and he says likewise carrion,
meaning anything that is not slaughtered properly or
that has died on its own, he should
not even feed that to his dog because
that is a method of benefiting from carrion
and it's not allowed to benefit from carrion
in that way.
Likewise in the Fatawa Hindia, it says our
scholars, our jurists, they say that they
say that it is not permitted to benefit
through carrion, dead meat, essentially non-ritually slaughtered
meat in any way whatsoever and you cannot
feed even his cats, right?
Sorry, his dogs, it mentions 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 an issue because you're not doing that,
right?
Likewise, if it goes and eats something haram,
a mouse or 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 a but now alhamdulillah,
alhamdulillah, you know, I've been some what this
company, mashallah, brother Ihtesham from Huraira Pet Foods,
right?
Huraira Pet Foods, Huraira with a Y in
between, right?
Coming from the name of Abu Huraira, he
was given that name, though.
His name was Abdul Rahman Ibn Sakhar, right?
Because he had a little cat.
So it's an appropriate name.
Huraira means a small kitten, you know, a
kitten basically.
So it's a very appropriately named cat food,
essentially pet food rather.
And so alhamdulillah, what really interesting, they've gone
to Malaysia.
They've gone to, you know, get something from
the best source available, very nutritious and so
on.
I'll 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, mashallah.
So go to Huraira Pet Foods, right?
If you want to check this out and
subscribe, right, especially if you're a cat owner
and you want to feed it, once they
launch, 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, what sweetened the deal 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, Huraira Pet Foods is willing to donate
a certain amount, inshallah, for every subscription they
receive.
So go to Huraira Halal Pet Foods.
So the website is Huraira Pet Foods, should
be on the screen, inshallah, or underneath and
you register basically and from this, from the
where it says, where did you hear about
us, choose white thread, inshallah, and that way
once you start subscribing, inshallah, we get, inshallah,
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 this be a
good venture and may we find halal in
many other things.
May Allah suffice us with the halal away
from the haram, right?
And this is all part of we're encouraged
by Allah subhanaw taala 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 haram.
We definitely don't want to bring haram into
our homes.
That's what we definitely don't want to do,
inshallah.
So jazakallah khair and we hope for many
other ventures like this that are providing halal
in our community.
Allah bless you all and please pray for
white thread as well and assalamu alaikum warahmatullahi
wabarakatuhu.