There is a custom among the Bedouin: when an animal falls ill and they despair of its recovery, they proceed to slaughter it. Is this action permissible or not?
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The questioner : The questioner says: There is a custom among the Bedouin, which is that when an animal falls ill and they despair of its recovery, they proceed to slaughter that animal. Is this action permissible or not?
The Shaykh : This action is permissible. That is, if an animal falls ill and you derive no benefit from it, and keeping it with you necessitates spending on it and wasting money on something of no benefit, then slaughtering it in this case is better than keeping it, because you derive no benefit from it, either now or in the future. And you will lose your money by spending on it, because you cannot let it go without spending. So slaughtering it is better than keeping it, because slaughtering it preserves your money and prevents its waste in spending on it.
The Shaykh : This action is permissible. That is, if an animal falls ill and you derive no benefit from it, and keeping it with you necessitates spending on it and wasting money on something of no benefit, then slaughtering it in this case is better than keeping it, because you derive no benefit from it, either now or in the future. And you will lose your money by spending on it, because you cannot let it go without spending. So slaughtering it is better than keeping it, because slaughtering it preserves your money and prevents its waste in spending on it.