Adnan Rajeh – The Unlawfulness of Harm #10
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This is the last hadith and on a
rate within the, theme of the unlawfulness of
Harm.
And I think it's an appropriate hadith to
conclude this series with because it's a,
it's one that
strikes you as quite,
I
wanna say odd, but it's a it's a
it's it's not what you you expect sometimes,
I guess, when you listen to these type
of hadith or or you or you or
you learn you're learning our faith, you don't
always expect you don't always expect a prophet
to say something like this. And he and
of course saying it, caused a lot of,
the Sahaba asked a lot of questions about
this one and they had a lot of
concerns because they didn't think that this was
the case. Of course, he explained it much
more throughout his life, alayhis salatu wa sama
became known. And the read goes as the
following.
So he said
was that a way a lady was punished
by Allah
because of a cat
that
she held captive
until it died.
Like, she basically imprisoned the cat or
put it in a cage or put it
somewhere until it died.
And the lady, because of this, entered in
Nar. This is the wording of the prophet,
alayhi, salaam.
Because of this, she went to the he
was punished in Jahannam. And then he comments,
alayhi, salaam, he says,
and he uses this here a couple of
times as if to emphasize
the how could she do this? Because he's
using this this terminology to
point out the the the horrible
by nature of this crime
that she did not feed her feed this
animal nor
quench his thirst when she held it captive,
nor did she open the door for her
to go and eat from the vermin of
the earth, whatever whatever existed outside.
As if the prophet
why could you
and this became
an issue for the suhava because they weren't
aware that this applied to animals.
Right?
They weren't aware that this
that it applied to animals. They understood, okay,
fine.
We can't be cruel or we can't harm
a human being.
But they thought animals were
no. Even an animal.
Even a cat.
Even a small creature that
yeah, she was punished. She went to Jahannam.
A person
would go to
Jahannam
because of a small cat
that
she didn't treat fairly,
that she didn't treat with mercy,
that she didn't show
any basic
decency and and and compassion towards.
And Alaihi Wasallam point that out. The harm
when we talk about the unlawfulness of harm,
we're not just talking about the unlawfulness of
harm towards
human beings. We're talking about the unlawfulness of
harm towards any living thing,
even something that you you consider not to
be not to be worthy or not to
be important. Alayhis salatu wasallahu alaihi wa sallam
would point out that it that it is
it is it is. And this hadith is
very scary
to me
because what we're
doing. I mean, I'll be causing
direct harm sometimes, Yani,
often, but I'm but I wonder sometimes about
the indirect harm that we cause with our
habits and diets and our choices in life,
whether we are causing indirect harm towards the
creatures of this planet and that we will
whether we will be held accountable for that
or not. I ask that Allah subhanahu wa'am
that we're not and that we're we're taught
the ways to be better.
But used this and the Sahaba heard it
and this is an unauthentic. This is Bukhari.
This is Mutafaq Ali Hadith.
This is one of the most authentic narrations
that we have. So when you hear it
and when you think of it, you have
to accept or you have to at
least pause for a moment and think about
what he's explaining
The mistreatment of an animal will lead for
a human being
to go to