Strictures Against Animal Killing - Islam
“…but to hunt…is forbidden you, so long as ye are on the pilgrimage. Be mindful of your duty to Allah, unto Whom you will all be gathered.” ~Koran, surah 5, verse 96 (In Mecca, the birthplace of Mohammed, no creature can be slaughtered and that perfect harmony should exist between all living beings. Muslim pilgrims approach Mecca wearing a shroud (‘ihram’). From the moment they wear this religious cloth, absolutely no killing is allowed. Mosquitos, lice, grasshoppers, and other living creatures must also be protected. If a pilgrim sees an insect on the ground, he will motion to stop his comrades from accidentally stepping on it.)
“There is not an animal on the earth, nor a flying creature flying on two wings, but they are all peoples like unto you.” ~Koran, (surah 6, verse 38)
“God assigned the earth to all living creatures” ~Koran (Majeed 55:10-12)
“It behooves you to treat the animals gently.” ~Koran (Majeed 4:118-19, 5:103)
“All creatures are like a family of God; and He loves the most those who are the most beneficent to His family.”~Hadith Mishkat 3:1392
“Therewith He causes crops to grow for you, and the olive and the date-palm and grapes and all kinds of fruit. Lo! Herein is indeed a portent for people who reflect.” ~Koran, surah 16, verse 11
“A token unto them is the dead earth. We revive it, and We bring forth from it grain—so that they will eat thereof. And We have placed therein gardens of the date-palm and grapes, and We have caused springs of water to gush forth therein. That they may not eat of the fruit thereof and their hands created it not. Will they not, then, give thanks?”~Koran, surah 36, verses 33-35
“Their flesh will never reach Allah, nor yet their blood - but your devotion and piety will reach Him.”~Koran (22:37)
“Eating the meat of a cow causes disease (marz), its milk is health (safa) and its clarified butter (ghee) is medicine (dava).” ~Ihya Ulum ul-Din, Al-Ghazzali (1058-1111)
“Neither eat the sea creatures for this is cruel. Nor seek nor desire thy food from the painful slaughtering of animals.” ~Abu l’Ala
“Maim not the brute beasts” ~Prophet Mohammed
“There is not an animal on the earth, nor a flying creature flying on two wings, but they are all peoples like unto you.” ~Koran, (surah 6, verse 38)
“God assigned the earth to all living creatures” ~Koran (Majeed 55:10-12)
“It behooves you to treat the animals gently.” ~Koran (Majeed 4:118-19, 5:103)
“All creatures are like a family of God; and He loves the most those who are the most beneficent to His family.”~Hadith Mishkat 3:1392
“Therewith He causes crops to grow for you, and the olive and the date-palm and grapes and all kinds of fruit. Lo! Herein is indeed a portent for people who reflect.” ~Koran, surah 16, verse 11
“A token unto them is the dead earth. We revive it, and We bring forth from it grain—so that they will eat thereof. And We have placed therein gardens of the date-palm and grapes, and We have caused springs of water to gush forth therein. That they may not eat of the fruit thereof and their hands created it not. Will they not, then, give thanks?”~Koran, surah 36, verses 33-35
“Their flesh will never reach Allah, nor yet their blood - but your devotion and piety will reach Him.”~Koran (22:37)
“Eating the meat of a cow causes disease (marz), its milk is health (safa) and its clarified butter (ghee) is medicine (dava).” ~Ihya Ulum ul-Din, Al-Ghazzali (1058-1111)
“Neither eat the sea creatures for this is cruel. Nor seek nor desire thy food from the painful slaughtering of animals.” ~Abu l’Ala
“Maim not the brute beasts” ~Prophet Mohammed