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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The Ruling on Killing Ants in the House

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Question:
This questioner says: What is the ruling on killing harmful or non-harmful ants in the house?

Answer:
It is not permissible to kill those that are not harmful. As for those that are harmful, they are killed. The harmful ones are first warned to leave; if they do not leave, they are killed with something other than fire, without using fire, they are killed with something other than fire. Yes.

The presenter:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh,
Source 75-اللقاء الأسبوعي مع الشيخ صالح الفوزان - 32 — archive.org (1:18:42)

The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.

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