The ruling on hunting snakes to extract medicine or for frivolous purposes
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The questioner:
And O Shaykh, I seek Allah's forgiveness. What is the ruling on handling snakes and practicing the extraction of what harms the believer from them, and taming them on the pretext that he may be forced to do so in the future, as well as the other wild animals that are forbidden, on the same pretext?
The Shaykh:
If he hunts snakes in order to extract medicine from them to repel snakes, there is no harm in that. I mean, doctors or medical laboratories hunt snakes or employ those who hunt them in order to take from them a substance from which they make a medicine to treat the one who is afflicted. This is permissible due to the need for it. As for the one who hunts snakes as a hobby and wants to show people that he is brave and that...
This is not permissible. This is frivolity, and it is not permissible. It may lead to sorcery. The sorcerers who practice sorcery on people today are of this type. They hunt snakes and use them and perform tricks so that the snakes do not bite them. People then think that this is from their miracles, that it is from Allah the Exalted, and that He prevented the snakes from biting them. They believe in their sainthood and miracles. This is sorcery. As for the medical aspect, there is no harm in it.
The presenter:
Good morning.
The Shaykh:
Yes.
And O Shaykh, I seek Allah's forgiveness. What is the ruling on handling snakes and practicing the extraction of what harms the believer from them, and taming them on the pretext that he may be forced to do so in the future, as well as the other wild animals that are forbidden, on the same pretext?
The Shaykh:
If he hunts snakes in order to extract medicine from them to repel snakes, there is no harm in that. I mean, doctors or medical laboratories hunt snakes or employ those who hunt them in order to take from them a substance from which they make a medicine to treat the one who is afflicted. This is permissible due to the need for it. As for the one who hunts snakes as a hobby and wants to show people that he is brave and that...
This is not permissible. This is frivolity, and it is not permissible. It may lead to sorcery. The sorcerers who practice sorcery on people today are of this type. They hunt snakes and use them and perform tricks so that the snakes do not bite them. People then think that this is from their miracles, that it is from Allah the Exalted, and that He prevented the snakes from biting them. They believe in their sainthood and miracles. This is sorcery. As for the medical aspect, there is no harm in it.
The presenter:
Good morning.
The Shaykh:
Yes.
Source
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