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The ruling on purchasing police dogs for guarding

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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: There are dogs used for guarding called police dogs. He asks: What is the ruling on purchasing these dogs for a need?

Answer:
Police dogs for the state; everyone places police dogs, these are for the state to maintain security. It is not permissible to keep a dog in the house or to own one. Yes.
Source شرح إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان لابن القيم، ذكر الآثار عن التابعين — islamhouse.com (58:14)

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

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