The Ruling on Hunting with a Trap and Torturing the Prey

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, I seek Allah's forgiveness. Some of the youth slaughter the trapped animal with blood, either by eating it or selling it, and the means of catching it involves drowning it in water until it is exhausted, or by using the car's wipers. Is that permissible?

Answer:
This is not permissible. Torturing it is not permissible, and it is not permissible to catch it when he does not intend to eat it, but rather intends to play with it, or to take it to people to starve it while they play with it. People are not eating it now; people do not eat sheep meat now, so how would they eat these? They only eat it as a hobby to play with it and torture it. So it is not permissible. This matter must be prevented. If he needs it and wants to kill it, he must not torture it; he should slaughter it with a comfortable slaughter. The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said: It is not permissible to torture animals, because they feel pain just as you do. It is not permissible to starve them, nor to withhold water from them. A woman entered the Fire because of a cat she had locked up; she did not feed it, nor did she let it go to eat from the creatures of the earth. When the cat died because of that, this woman entered the Fire, may Allah protect us from that. Yes.