Killing Scorpions and Snakes and Providing Them to Universities for Research
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Question:
The question is about removing scorpions and snakes from their burrows, then killing them and providing them to universities to conduct research and studies on them?
Answer:
Killing harmful snakes and scorpions is required, even if the universities did not request them, because this serves to repel their harm from people. It is permissible to kill them and give them to the universities if they conduct useful research experiments on them; there is no harm in that. However, they are not to be sold. It is not permissible to take a reward for them, and taking a price for them is forbidden. Insects are not to be sold. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
The question is about removing scorpions and snakes from their burrows, then killing them and providing them to universities to conduct research and studies on them?
Answer:
Killing harmful snakes and scorpions is required, even if the universities did not request them, because this serves to repel their harm from people. It is permissible to kill them and give them to the universities if they conduct useful research experiments on them; there is no harm in that. However, they are not to be sold. It is not permissible to take a reward for them, and taking a price for them is forbidden. Insects are not to be sold. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
Source
كتاب التوحيد 13-08-1434هـ — alfawzan.live (1:01:05)
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