Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The cat is considered "the quintessential pet" by many Muslims, [1] and is admired for its cleanliness. Unlike many other animals, such as dogs, Islamic Law considers cats ritually pure and that cats possess barakah (blessings), [2] [3] and allows cats to freely enter homes and even mosques. Cats are believed to be the most common pet in Muslim ...
In the Arabian Peninsula before the advent of Islam in the 7th century CE, Arabs, like other people, attributed the qualities and the faults of humans to animals. Virility, for example, was attributed to the cock; perfidy to the monkey; stupidity to the lizard; and boldness to the elephant.
[citation needed] Cat meat is forbidden by Jewish [citation needed] and Islamic law [41] as both religions forbid the eating of carnivores. Cats are commonly regarded as pets in Western countries, or as working animals, kept to control vermin , not as a food animal, and consumption of cats is thus seen as a barbaric act by a large part of the ...
The pig is considered an unclean animal as food in Judaism and Islam, and parts of Christianity.. In some religions, an unclean animal is an animal whose consumption or handling is taboo.
The Islamic dietary laws and the Jewish dietary laws (kashrut; in English, kosher) are both quite detailed, and contain both points of similarity and discord.Both are the dietary laws and described in distinct religious texts: an explanation of the Islamic code of law found in the Quran and Sunnah and the Jewish code of laws found in the Torah, Talmud and Shulchan Aruch.
Animal rights vary greatly among countries and territories. Such laws range from the legal recognition of non-human animal sentience to the absolute lack of any anti-cruelty laws, with no regard for animal welfare.
The Federation Internationale Feline scratched cats bred in Russia and their handlers from participating in shows until at least June
In 1980, the Grand Imam of al-Azhar Gad al-Haq Ali Gad al-Haq issued a fatwa that "Listening to music, attending musical gatherings, and studying music of all genres and instruments is allowed as long as it is not accompanied with immoral and sinful acts, or used as a pretext to incite people towards haram (prohibited) behaviour, and it does ...