The ruling on treating with monitor lizard oil or with impurities
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What is the ruling on treating with monitor lizard oil? Is there any mention of it in a book?
First: Who is going to hunt the monitor lizard?The questioner: It is easy to hunt.
The Shaykh: And has the Qur'an been revealed, or has it been established through experience, that its oil is beneficial?The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: So: there is nothing wrong with it, but if you want to pray, wash it off.If someone were to say: (Indeed, Allah has not made the cure for this Ummah in what He has forbidden them)?We say: Allah has not forbidden us to anoint ourselves with it; He has forbidden us to eat it or drink its oil or the like. As for rubbing it on our bodies, since we have tried it and it has been beneficial, there is nothing wrong with it. However, when praying, it is obligatory to purify oneself from it.
The questioner: What is a man?The Shaykh: The monitor lizard is a creature they say is malicious; it stings people, so I do not know if it kills them or just causes them pain.
The monitor lizard: It is a creature similar to the spiny-tailed lizard, but people dislike it and it is not eaten.Or that it is also impure. The Shaykh: No.
This is a mistake. People dislike it. Is there anyone who dislikes the spiny-tailed lizard? And is there anyone who dislikes locusts? So people's dislike is not a reason for prohibition. For this reason, some Arabs eat everything that moves except the beetle. For this reason, some people congratulate the beetle.And they say: Congratulations to it that the Arabs do not permit it, so they do not kill it.
I have heard that the monitor lizard is malicious; it attacks people and stings them, and it cannot be released until it has torn off some of their flesh. In any case, it is a vile creature.
First: Who is going to hunt the monitor lizard?The questioner: It is easy to hunt.
The Shaykh: And has the Qur'an been revealed, or has it been established through experience, that its oil is beneficial?The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: So: there is nothing wrong with it, but if you want to pray, wash it off.If someone were to say: (Indeed, Allah has not made the cure for this Ummah in what He has forbidden them)?We say: Allah has not forbidden us to anoint ourselves with it; He has forbidden us to eat it or drink its oil or the like. As for rubbing it on our bodies, since we have tried it and it has been beneficial, there is nothing wrong with it. However, when praying, it is obligatory to purify oneself from it.
The questioner: What is a man?The Shaykh: The monitor lizard is a creature they say is malicious; it stings people, so I do not know if it kills them or just causes them pain.
The monitor lizard: It is a creature similar to the spiny-tailed lizard, but people dislike it and it is not eaten.Or that it is also impure. The Shaykh: No.
This is a mistake. People dislike it. Is there anyone who dislikes the spiny-tailed lizard? And is there anyone who dislikes locusts? So people's dislike is not a reason for prohibition. For this reason, some Arabs eat everything that moves except the beetle. For this reason, some people congratulate the beetle.And they say: Congratulations to it that the Arabs do not permit it, so they do not kill it.
I have heard that the monitor lizard is malicious; it attacks people and stings them, and it cannot be released until it has torn off some of their flesh. In any case, it is a vile creature.