Ammar Alshukry – How the Prophet Muhamad Treated Animals

			The Prophet Muhammad peace be upon was a mercy to the world's not just humanity he was a mercy to
the world of animals as well. It was a mercy that he manifested in his actions and in mercy that he
taught. He emerged from a society that gave no significance to animals beyond their utility to their
owners where abuse was rampant and unchecked, but he transformed their attitudes toward the animals
in their care, and those with whom they share this earth. His every interaction manifested that
mercy in a military campaign, some soldiers had come across a bird and her young in the absence of
the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him they took her young and continued on. When the Prophet
		

			Muhammad peace be upon him returned, he saw the mother bird in distress, beating her wings on the
ground, to which he made an amazing statement that would teach a nation who has put this bird to
distress on account of her young return them to her. He taught that a woman entered the Hellfire
because she imprisoned a cat, starving to death, and that a prostitute entered paradise for bringing
water to a thirsty dog. He was asked by his companions if they were actually rewarded for being kind
to animals. His words have echoed for over 1000 years, there is a reward for kindness to every
living thing. He taught that livestock be treated humanely that their owners not starve them,
		

			overwork them, overload them before they that they be struck in the face or branded in the face. And
he taught that animals never, ever be used as targets. He taught that mankind feared God in regards
to animals, and that they will be asked about their treatment of them. And he transformed the view
that was had about animals, that they were shared inhabitants on the spirit with their own sanctity
and that they praise God in their own ways that we do not understand and that their presence
enriches our lives. Hence, he said, Don't curse the rooster for it awakens us for prayer.
		

			He was a mercy to the worlds he was a mercy to their world.