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The Dark Danger: Bigotry: The Superstition of "Accursed Animals" in the Religion of the Fanatics

Contents
  1. The Misunderstood Islam
  2. The Two Basic Concepts Misused by Those Who Portray Islam as a Violent Faith: Sharia and Jihad
  3. Islam: The Religion of Ease
  4. The True Sharia in the Qur'an
  5. What Does the True Qur'anic Sharia Bring to A Country?
  6. The True Jihad in the Qur'an
  7. An Examination of Verse 95 of Surat an-Nisa'
  8. An Examination of Verse 52 of Surat al-Furqan
  9. A Muslim Has a Responsibility to Believe in Every Verse of the Qur'an, Without Exception
  10. The Qur'an Is a "Preserved" Book
  11. The Mistakes in Differentiating between the "Meccan Period Muslims" and "Medinan Period Muslims"
  12. The Harsh Testing of Muslims in the Meccan Period
  13. The Medinan Period and the Battles
  14. Who Were Battles Fought Against?
  15. The Description of War in the Qur'an
  16. Polytheists with Whom Agreements Were Made
  17. The First Multilateral and Most Democratic Constitution Ever: The Constitution of Medina
  18. Verses about War and the Interpretation Thereof
  19. There Is No Justification for War in Islam Except for Self-Defense
  20. War for Ideological or Ethnic Superiority?
  21. One of the Main Causes of Radicalism: Tribal Culture
  22. War for the Purpose of Spreading the Rules of Islam to be Introduced by A Muslim Leader?
  23. War for the Elimination of Enemies?
  24. Who Desires War?
  25. Conclusion
  26. The False Faith of the Fanatics
  27. Fabricated Hadiths that Shape the Religion of the Fanatics
  28. Our Prophet (pbuh) Did Not Allow Any Hadith To Be Written Down
  29. The Rightly-Guided Caliphs Did Not Allow the Writing of Hadiths
  30. Some of the Companions of Our Prophet (pbuh) Objected to Collecting Hadith
  31. The Idolaters and Hypocrites Tried to Harass Our Prophet (pbuh)
  32. Where Did Fabricated Hadiths Come from?
  33. Differences between the Islamic Schools of Thought
  34. Those Who Seek Commandments outside the Qur'an Must Turn to the Truth of the Faith
  35. Radicals Seek to Hold on to "What They Learned from Their Forefathers"
  36. The Islamic World's Abandonment of the Qur'an
  37. The Qur'an Is Our Guide and Should Be in Our Hands at All Times
  38. A Major Problem: The Defamatory Idea that the Hadiths Have Abrogated Verses
  39. Understanding the Limits of the Fanatical Mindset
  40. The Killing of People Who Drink Alcohol
  41. The Killing of People Who Commit Adultery
  42. Adultery in the Eyes of the Qur'an
  43. The Killing of People Who Steal
  44. The Killing of Apostates
  45. The Killing of Those Who Cease to Pray
  46. The Beating of Children Who Stop Praying
  47. The Killing of People Who Do Not Give Alms
  48. The Imprisonment and Starvation of Those Who Do Not Fast
  49. The Killing of People Who Abjure the Faith When Drunk
  50. The Killing of Those Who Speak Improperly about the Prophet without Calling on Him to Repent
  51. The Superstition of "Accursed Animals" in the Religion of the Fanatics
  52. Our Prophet (pbuh) Did Away with the Cruel Customs that Mistreated Animals
  53. Our Prophet (pbuh) Forbade Animals from Being Overworked
  54. Working Animals' Right to Rest
  55. Our Prophet (pbuh) Prohibited the Abuse and Mistreatment of Animals
  56. Our Prophet's (pbuh) Cat, "Muezza"
  57. Our Prophet's (pbuh) Affection toward a Mother Bird and Her Young
  58. The Baby Goat
  59. A Starving Camel and Its Owner
  60. A Sleeping Antelope
  61. A Donkey Branded on the Face
  62. Treating Animals Well
  63. The Foul Nature of the Fanatic
  64. A Dirty Conception of Faith and A Low-Quality Conception of Being a Muslim
  65. Women Are One of the Finest Blessings in This World
  66. Women in the Qur'an
  67. The Idea that Women Are Deficient in Intelligence and Faith
  68. The Idea that Women Are Crooked
  69. Hadiths and Claims Fabricated to Debase Women
  70. The Idea that Women Are a Barrier to People Living by the Faith
  71. The Idea that One Should Never Be Guided by Women
  72. The Defamatory Idea that Women Are Second-Class Citizens and that God Has Left Women Backward
  73. Allegations Prohibiting Women from Adorning Themselves
  74. The Fanatics' Idea of How Muslim Women Should Treat Their Husbands
  75. The Rights and Superiority Bestowed on Women in the Qur'an Are Nowhere in the Religion of the Fanatic
  76. The Position of a Woman Who Divorces Her Husband
  77. A Woman Being Regarded as a Sinner until Her Husband Is Pleased with Her
  78. Women Being Unable to Go out, and the Idea They Are Prone to Deception by Satan
  79. The Idea that A Woman Is Misfortune and Annuls Prayer
  80. Examples of the Fanatical Mindset that Compares Women to Animals
  81. Verses Addressing the Wives of Our Prophet (pbuh)
  82. Conclusion: The Qur'an Attaches the Greatest Value to Women
  83. The Addition of the Word "Headscarf" to Translations of the Qur'an As a Means of Restricting Women
  84. Surat an-Nur Verse 31, 1st Part
  85. "Khimar" / Cover
  86. "Yadribna" / To strike
  87. "Juyub" / Collar opening
  88. Misleading or Incorrect Translations Based on Fabricated Hadiths
  89. A False Interpretation: "That They Should Draw Their Head Coverings"
  90. 1-Care over the Use of Words in Arabic
  91. 2-Examination of Words in the Qur'an Through Other Verses
  92. 3-Care Being Taken Over Ascribing Meaning to Arabic Words in Parenthesis
  93. Surat an-Nur Verse 31, 2nd Part
  94. Misinterpretations Regarding "Women's Adornments"
  95. The Idea that Women Are Instruments of Trial
  96. The Error of Making Adornments and Accessories Unlawful
  97. How Is the Word "Ornament" Used in the Qur'an?
  98. The Region Referred to in Verse 31 of Surat an-Nur
  99. Fabricated Hadiths on the Subject of the Head-Covering and Their Internal Inconsistencies
  100. Forbidden Things Are Not Left Obscure in the Qur'an
  101. The Desire to Shut Only Women and Their Bodies Away
  102. The Qur'an Refers to the Jilbab, Not to the Headscarf
  103. Surat al-Ahzab Verse 59
  104. Espousing the Head-Covering but Never Mentioning the "Jilbab"
  105. Which Important Topics Do Some of the Passionate Defenders of the Headscarf Never Talk About?
  106. A Muslim Woman Knows How to Dress in Accordance with the Qur'an
  107. The "Two Women = One Man" Error
  108. Women and Witness Testimony in Loans
  109. Women's Inheritance Rights
  110. A Woman's Right to Divorce
  111. Divorce and the Protection of Women Thereafter
  112. Women Being Kept Happy and Content in the Event of Divorce
  113. Women Being Given Financial Security after Divorce
  114. Assets Given to Women Must Not Be Taken back after Divorce
  115. Ensuring Women Have a Place to Live after Divorce
  116. Women Not Being Inherited by Force
  117. The Value Placed on Mothers
  118. The Slander of Male Superiority and the Nonsense about Beating Women
  119. The Idea of Male Superiority
  120. The False Idea of the "Beating of Women"
  121. Other Misconceptions concerning Women
  122. Sayings of Our Prophet (pbuh) in Praise of Women
  123. The Fanatics' Hatred of Art
  124. The Idea that Joking, Humor and Laughter Must Be Avoided
  125. According to the Qur'an Grief and Unhappiness Are Attributes of Unbelievers Alone
  126. The Joy in Paradise and the True Meaning of Sorrow
  127. The Idea of Avoiding Humor
  128. The Allegation that Music and Poetry Are Forbidden
  129. The Dishonesty of Fanatics Who Seek to Ban Music
  130. God Loves Music, and Causes His Servants to Love It
  131. The Idea that Painting and Sculpture Are Unlawful
  132. The Idea that Gold and Silk Are Prohibited
  133. Fabricated Hadiths that Prohibit Pleasant Scent
  134. Fabricated Hadiths that Prohibit Tattoos, Removal of Facial Hair, Esthetic Dental Work
  135. Fabricated Hadiths that Prohibit Women from Going out of Doors in Attractive Clothes
  136. Fabricated Hadiths that Maintain that Women Lose Paradise by Preoccupying Themselves with Gold and Clothes
  137. Fabricated Hadiths that Maintain that Women Should not be Given Nice Clothes
  138. If the Spirit of the Fanatics Dominated This World
  139. Make-up, Grooming, Cleanliness, Modernity and Culture, "Quality" for Short, Are All Requirements of Islam
  140. Women Are Lovely Beings, of course They Must Be Well-Groomed
  141. The Horrifying Nature of the Misogyny of the Fanatical Mindset
  142. The Perversion that Leads to Running inside and Locking the Doors upon Seeing a Boy
  143. The Lie that Young Boys are Accompanied by Eighteen Satans
  144. The Perversion that Claims Boys Can Be 19 Times More Seductive than Women
  145. The Perversion that Claims ‘Young Boys Are Same as Women’ And ‘Boys Can Be Lusted After just like Women’
  146. The Claim that a Young Boy's Voice is Forbidden
  147. Muslims Have the Right to Wear Attractive Stylish Clothing and Own Fine Cars and Nice Homes
  148. Jews and Christians in the Religion of the Fanatics
  149. Responses from the Qur'an to Those Who Look to the Qur'an for Enmity toward the Jews
  150. The Comparison with "Monkeys and Pigs" and What the Qur'an Really Says about the People of the Book
  151. Examination of Verse 60 of Surat al-Ma'ida
  152. Jews Who Are Praised
  153. Examination of Verse 166 of Surat al-A'raf
  154. Examination of Verse 65 of Surat al-Baqara
  155. The Error of the Jews Being Cursed
  156. An Examination of Verse 88 of Surat al-Baqara
  157. Examination of Verse 155 of Surat an-Nisa'
  158. The Idea of Not Taking Jews and Christians As Friends
  159. Misunderstandings About War and the Jizya
  160. What Does the Expression "The Religion with God Is Islam" Mean?
  161. The Idea of Killing Jews Who Enter Adolescence
  162. The Idea of Making Jews Responsible for the Sins of Muslims
  163. The Idea that Food Is Spoiled because of Jews
  164. The Idea that Two Faiths Should Not Co-exist in Arab Lands
  165. The Idea that Calling Someone a Jew Is an Insult and that Cursing Jews Is a Source of Reward
  166. The Idea of Forcing Them onto the Narrow Part of the Road
  167. The Gharqad, the Tree of the Jews
  168. Muslim Men Can Marry Women of the Book; Muslims Can Eat the Food of the People of the Book and They Can Eat the Food of Muslims
  169. Muslims' Invitation to the People of the Book
  170. The Just Behavior of Muslims toward the People of the Book
  171. Muslims Are Obliged To Protect Churches and Synagogues; It Is a Sin To Attack Places of Worship
  172. Our Prophet's (pbuh) Relations with the People of the Book
  173. The Gospel and the Torah in the Qur'an
  174. Our Prophet's Practices concerning the Torah and the Gospel
  175. The Jews Enjoy the Right to Live in the Holy Land in the Qur'an
  176. Afterword

Kill the dogs, apart from the dog for hunting and the dog for the security of the herd… (Sahih Bukhari, Sahih Muslim, Malik's Muwatta, at-Tirmidhi, an-Nasai) It is your duty [to kill] the jet-black (dog) having two spots (on the eyes), for it is a devil. (Sahih Muslim, Book 10, Hadith 3813)

It is said that the donkey brays for it sees satan.

(Sahih Muslim, Book 35, Hadith 6581)

Another hadith is that rats are actually a group of Bani Isra'il, for which reason when the milk of the camel is placed before them, they would not taste it at all. (Sahih Muslim, Book 42, Hadith 7135, 7136)

One hadith is that the crow is a mischief-doer.

(Sahih Bukhari, Book 54, Hadith 531; Musnad Ahmed ibn Hanbal 2/52)

The pigeon is a devil. (Sunan Abu Dawud, Book 41, Hadith 4922; Ibn Majah)

The gecko is a sinner. (Sahih Muslim 2239/145, Ibn Majah 3230, Sunan Abu Dawud 5262)

He who kills a gecko with the first stroke there are seventy rewards for him. (Sunan Abu Dawud, Book 41, Hadith 5243; Sahih Muslim, Book 26, Hadith 5566)

The stoning to death of monkeys that "commit adultery" (Sahih Bukhari 63/27) – (another false hadith is that a monkey that committed adultery was stoned to death and that one of the Companions took part in the stoning.)

A donkey that sees satan, a Jewish rat, a crow doing mischief, a devilish pigeon, an adulterous monkey, poor black dogs and geckos that need to be put to death; a summary of the terrible life far removed from the Qur'an offered by the fanatical mindset. This outlandish mentality commands that all dogs apart from hunting and sheepdogs should be killed, and that house dogs, and lap dogs and guard dogs, some of the sweetest animals in the world that God has created in so many breeds and with feelings of love and protection, must all be killed. As revealed in the Qur'an, however, "The seven heavens and the earth and everyone in them glorify Him. There is nothing which does not glorify Him with praise but you do not understand their glorification. He is All-Forbearing, Ever-Forgiving." (Qur'an, 17:44) it is impossible for these life forms that glorify God in a way we cannot understand, and that are specially created for paradise with all their beauty, to be sinners or the devil incarnate. How can a rat possibly be Jewish? And what is wrong with being Jewish anyway?

Furthermore, how can a monkey commit adultery? Does a monkey have any moral values or an institution of marriage in which he must remain faithful? Does he have the self-awareness to understand all these things and responsibility thereof? So how can a monkey be accused of adultery? This is a profoundly ignorant claim to make; yet the fanatics even go so far as to defame the Companions and try to use them as evidence for their false allegations. Of course these are all fabricated hadiths, and it is impossible for such cruel rules to have any place in the Qur'an. God states in the Qur'an that there were dogs with the Companions of the Cave and Ar-Raqim, whom He praises very greatly in the Qur'an: You would have supposed them to be awake whereas in fact they were asleep. We moved them to the right and to the left, and, at the entrance, their dog stretched out its paws… (Qur'an, 18:18) They will say, "There were three of them, their dog being the fourth." They will say, "There were five of them, their dog being the sixth," guessing at the Unseen. And they will say, "There were seven of them, their dog being the eighth." Say: "My Lord knows best their number. Those who know about them are very few." … (Qur'an, 18:22)

Muslims can obviously have a guard dog or a pet dog with them. There are also other animals mentioned in the Qur'an.

  1. According to the Qur'an, animals must be treated with love and affection:

He [Solomon] said: "Truly do I love the love of good [or these horses] because of the remembrance of my Lord"—[repeating these words as the horses raced away,] until they were hidden by the veil [of dust]. [Solomon said:] "Return them to me!" And he set about stroking their shanks and necks. (Qur'an, 38:32-33) Then, when they reached the Valley of the Ants, an ant said, "Ants! Enter your dwellings so that Solomon and his troops do not crush you unwittingly." He smiled, laughing at its words, and said, "My Lord, keep me thankful for the blessing You have bestowed on me and on my parents, and keep me acting rightly, pleasing You, and admit me, by Your mercy, among Your servants who are the righteous." (Qur'an, 27:18-19)

  1. Animals in the Qur'an are cited as works of God and signs leading to faith:

Have they not looked at the camel – how it was created?

Qur'an, 88:17

God is not ashamed to make an example of a gnat or of an even smaller thing. As for those who have faith, they know it is the truth from their Lord. But as for those who are unbelievers, they say, "What does God mean by this example?" He misguides many by it and guides many by it. But He only misguides the deviators.

Qur'an, 2:26

Mankind! An example has been made, so listen to it carefully. Those whom you call upon besides God are not even able to create a single fly, even if they were to join together to do it.

And if a fly steals something from them, they cannot get it back. How feeble are both the seeker and the sought! (Qur'an, 22:73) 3. The Qur'an notes that animals have intelligence:

Then God sent a crow which scratched at the earth to show him how to conceal his brother's corpse. He said, "Woe is me! Can I not even be like this crow and conceal my brother's corpse?" And he became one of those who suffer bitter remorse. (Qur'an, 5:31) Almighty God cites in the Qur'an various kinds of animal as intelligent and glorious examples of Creation that remember Him, and He praises the prophets' love and affection for animals.

  1. God reveals in the Qur'an that animals act in the light of revelation:

Your Lord revealed to the bees:

"Build dwellings in the mountains and the trees, and also in the structures which men erect. Then eat from every kind of fruit and travel the paths of your Lord, which have been made easy for you to follow." From inside them comes a drink of varying colors, containing healing for mankind. There is certainly a sign in that for people who reflect.

Qur'an, 16:68-69

  1. The proofs of creation in animals are described in detail in the Qur'an:

There is instruction for you in cattle. From the contents of their bellies, from between the dung and blood, We give you pure milk to drink, easy for drinkers to swallow.

Qur'an, 16:66

  1. We are told that animals are created in diverse forms as a source of beauty:

And mankind and animals and livestock are likewise of varying colors. Only those of His servants with knowledge have fear of God. God is Almighty, Ever-Forgiving.

Qur'an, 35:28

Have they not seen how We created for them, by Our own handiwork, livestock which are under their control? (Qur'an, 36:71) 7. We are told that animals prostrate themselves to God and glorify Him: Do you not see that everyone in the heavens and everyone on the earth prostrates to God, and the sun and moon and stars and the mountains, trees and beasts and many of mankind? But many of them inevitably merit punishment. Those God humiliates will have no one to honor them. God does whatever He wills. (Qur'an, 22:18)

Do you not see that everyone in the heavens and earth glorifies God, as do the birds with their outspread wings? Each one knows its prayer and glorification. God knows what they do.

Qur'an, 24:41

As we have seen, God speaks in the Qur'an of many different kinds of animals that glorify Him as intelligent and glorious examples of creation and describes the loving, affectionate attitude of the prophets. The perverse conception of religion of the fanatics that stresses a hatred for animals is nowhere to be seen in the Qur'an. We also see examples of valuing and loving animals in the life of our Prophet (pbuh), the applier of the Qur'an. Our Prophet (pbuh) was full of love and affection toward animals, in such a way as to definitively refute the fanatical mindset. Some of the actions of our Prophet (pbuh) that show his affection toward animals are as follows: