Slaughtering the sick sheep to protect the wealth
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Your Eminence! If I have a sick sheep and I do not want to eat it after slaughtering it, is it better to slaughter it or leave it to die on its own?
It is considered: if her illness is going to be prolonged and that will result in you losing money on her, because you are obligated to spend on her and care for her, then there is no harm in killing her to protect the money; because spending money on her is a waste of it, and wasting money is prohibited. So you kill her to be relieved of her. Likewise, if she is in great pain, some scholars say: there is no harm in killing her to relieve her, provided she is under your control and ownership. But if she is a beast for which you are not responsible, leave her alone, for example: if we find, say, a beast in the street and we do not know whose it is, and it is sick and in pain, then doing good to it is undoubtedly better; but it is not obligatory.
It is considered: if her illness is going to be prolonged and that will result in you losing money on her, because you are obligated to spend on her and care for her, then there is no harm in killing her to protect the money; because spending money on her is a waste of it, and wasting money is prohibited. So you kill her to be relieved of her. Likewise, if she is in great pain, some scholars say: there is no harm in killing her to relieve her, provided she is under your control and ownership. But if she is a beast for which you are not responsible, leave her alone, for example: if we find, say, a beast in the street and we do not know whose it is, and it is sick and in pain, then doing good to it is undoubtedly better; but it is not obligatory.