{"id":1463,"date":"2019-06-24T19:56:03","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T17:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=1463"},"modified":"2019-06-24T19:56:05","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T17:56:05","slug":"is-it-permissible-to-euthanize-a-pet-animal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=1463","title":{"rendered":"Is it permissible to euthanize a pet\/animal?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Is it permissible to euthanize a pet\/animal?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Q. Respected Mufti Sahib I have a pet hamster who is old and quite ill. Is it permissible to have him euthanized at the SPCA?\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>A.<\/strong> If an animal\/pet is in pain and agony and there is no hope of its recovery and it is close to dying, then there is no sin in euthanizing such an animal\/pet to relieve it of its pain.<\/p>\n<p>Hence, in the enquired situation, if this is the case of your pet hamster, it will be permissible for it to be euthanized. <strong>(Shaami 6\/474)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Allah Ta\u2019ala Knows Best<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mufti Ismaeel Bassa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>themufti.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it permissible to euthanize a pet\/animal?\u00a0 Q. Respected Mufti Sahib I have a pet hamster who is old and quite ill. Is it permissible to<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1464,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions\/1464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}