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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The ruling on slaughtering for graves and houses out of fear of the jinn

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Question:
May Allah reward you. From the questions of the questioner: Honorable Shaykh Salih, he says: I ask about the ruling on slaughtering for graves and for houses out of fear of the jinn, and slaughtering when buying a car or cars, and we smear them with blood. All these matters are shirk (associating partners with Allah); the slaughtering

Answer:
for the jinn is an act of shirk because it is slaughtering for other than Allah, and in the Sunnah, Allah has cursed the one who slaughters for other than Allah. And Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He) said to His Prophet:
(162) Say, "Indeed, my prayer, my rites of sacrifice, my living and my dying are for Allah, Lord of the worlds. (163) No partner has He. And this I have been commandedقُلْ إِنَّ صَلَاتِي وَنُسُكِي وَمَحْيَايَ وَمَمَاتِي لِلَّهِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ لَا شَرِيكَ لَهُ وَبِذَٰلِكَ أُمِرْتُ
[Al-An'am 6:162-163]
, and He (Exalted and Majestic is He) said: "So sacrifice to your Lord and offer." The ritual sacrifice and the offering are means of drawing near to Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He). So if one slaughters for the jinn or for the devils to ward off their harm or hoping that they will benefit him, then this is major shirk, and it is a departure from the religion, because it directs a type of worship to other than Allah (Mighty and Majestic). Likewise, slaughtering in the house out of fear of the jinn is also shirk with Allah (Mighty and Majestic). Likewise, slaughtering when buying a car, smearing the car with blood out of fear of the evil eye or the jinn, all of this is shirk with Allah (Mighty and Majestic). So these actions are not permissible because they are worship of other than Allah (Mighty and Majestic), and shirk with Allah (Mighty and Majestic). Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 6267- حكم الذبح للقبور والبيوت خوفاً من الجن - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com

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