The Ruling on Imitating Animals
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: Do we take from the hadith of 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Shabbar, in which the Prophet forbade three things, the prohibition of imitating animals in all cases?
Answer:
Yes, it is taken from that and from others as well. Imitating animals is forbidden. It is forbidden for a person to imitate animals, whether in worship or in anything else. This includes prostrating like the prostration of a camel, which is disliked, because the intention is to place the hands before the knees, like the way a camel kneels, like the way a camel kneels. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: Do we take from the hadith of 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Shabbar, in which the Prophet forbade three things, the prohibition of imitating animals in all cases?
Answer:
Yes, it is taken from that and from others as well. Imitating animals is forbidden. It is forbidden for a person to imitate animals, whether in worship or in anything else. This includes prostrating like the prostration of a camel, which is disliked, because the intention is to place the hands before the knees, like the way a camel kneels, like the way a camel kneels. Yes.
Source
شرح كتاب المنتقى من أخبار المصطفى صلى الله عليه وسلم، بداية من باب ما جاء فيمن يلازم بقعة بعينها من المسجد — islamhouse.com (42:39)
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