The
debate over whether cats or dogs make better pets has raged on for millennia, with some preferring cats & some dogs.
However, Islam, the faith which likes to discriminate between men & women & believers & non believers-also discriminates against dogs, while preferring cats!
Here it is said
why dogs are impure, how they shouldn't be kept as pets, & blessings are reduced for touching dogs!
Some anti dog(& anti women) hadiths!
Volume 1, Book 9, Number 490:
Narrated 'Aisha:
The things which annul the prayers were mentioned before me. They said, "Prayer is annulled by a dog, a donkey and a woman (if they pass in front of the praying people)." I said, "You have made us (i.e. women) dogs. I saw the Prophet praying while I used to lie in my bed between him and the Qibla. Whenever I was in need of something, I would slip away. for I disliked to face him."
Muslim 1032: "I said: O Abu Dharr, what feature is there in a black dog which distinguish it from the red dog and the yellow dog? He said: "O, son of my brother, I asked the Messenger of Allah as you are asking me and he said,
"The black dog is evil." Bukhari 843: "Once Gabriel promised to visit the Prophet but he delayed and the Prophet got worried about that. At last he came out and found Gabriel and complained to him of his grief (for his delay). Gabriel said to him,
"We do not enter a place in which there is a picture or a dog." Bukhari 2839 (note): "The Prophet did not order the killing of all dogs, for some are to be retained for hunting and watching.
He ordered to kill the jet black ones. They might be more mischievous among them."
So even the Prophet realises the usefulness of man's best friend for hunting & watching &
some dogs are to be retained for that purpose!
But
black dogs are to be slaughtered!
However,
just look at Islam's double standards when it comes to cats!
Hadith - Muwatta 2.13
Yahya related to me from Malik from Ishaq ibn Abdullah ibn Abi Talha from Humayda bint Abi Ubayda ibn Farwa that her maternal aunt Kabsha bint Kab ibn Malik, who was the wife of the son of Abu Qatada al-Ansari, told her that once Abu Qatada was visiting her and she poured out some water for him to do wudu with. Just then a cat came to drink from it, so he tilted the vessel towards it to let it drink. Kabsha continued, "He saw me looking at him and said, 'Are you surprised, daughter of my brother?' I said, 'Yes.' He replied that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, cats are not impure. They intermingle with you .' "
Yahya said that Malik said, "There is no harm in that unless one sees impurities on the cat's mouth."
Hadith - Muslim, Narrated 'Aisha, Ummul Mu'minin
Dawud ibn Salih ibn Dinar at-Tammar quoted his mother as saying that her mistress sent her with some pudding (harisah) to Aisha who was offering prayer. She made a sign to me to place it down. A cat came and ate some of it, but when Aisha finished her prayer, she ate from the place where the cat had eaten. She stated: The Messenger of Allah said: It is not unclean: it is one of those who go round among you. She added: I saw the Messenger of Allah performing ablution from the water left over by the cat.
However, the same Messenger of Allah had instructed that a vessel from which a dog has eaten has to be washed seven times.
Hadith - Muwatta 2.36
Yahya related to me from Malik from Abu'z-Zinad from al-Araj from Abu Hurayra that the Messenger of Allah said, "If a dog drinks from your vessel, wash it seven times."
We can see
why some cats would consider converting to Islam!
Seriously, wasn?t it sufficient for Allah & His supposed messenger to prefer men to women & believers to unbelievers? Did they need to extend their double standards to cats & dogs as well?
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Topic: Cats v. Dogs! Another Islamic Discrimination & Double Standard!!