Is eating from food that a cat has eaten prohibited due to what is reported in the hadith?
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The questioner : ... ... .
The Shaykh : The one who eats from the food we mentioned earlier; meaning food that a cat has eaten, is it disliked or not?
The questioner : Yes, or if... he drank water; is it permissible for him to drink it?
The Shaykh : It is permissible regarding the cat.
The questioner : Why did the hadith say: evil; ? Drinking from the cat is evil; meaning the hadith.
-- The Shaykh : May Allah... in something?Another questioner: No.The Shaykh : Okay. --
The questioner : Do I understand from the hadith that the cat drinking from the water is evil, and the devil is more evil?
The Shaykh : Without a doubt, first, the hadith does not state that drinking from what the cat drank is evil. All the hadith does is draw the attention of this actor, this drinker, who is standing; that you are doing something that if the cat, whose saliva is not impure, were sharing it with you, you would still dislike it. So here, the dislike is a natural psychological one, not a religiously prescribed dislike. So how would you drink while standing if you knew that the devil was drinking with you? This is a wonderful method in educating the Muslim, I mean.
The questioner : In a narration, it says: if you can, he said: vomit, if you can?
The Shaykh : No, there is no "if you can."
The Shaykh : The one who eats from the food we mentioned earlier; meaning food that a cat has eaten, is it disliked or not?
The questioner : Yes, or if... he drank water; is it permissible for him to drink it?
The Shaykh : It is permissible regarding the cat.
The questioner : Why did the hadith say: evil;
An evil one has drunk with you, worse than the cat
قد شرب معك شرٌّ من الهر-- The Shaykh : May Allah... in something?Another questioner: No.The Shaykh : Okay. --
The questioner : Do I understand from the hadith that the cat drinking from the water is evil, and the devil is more evil?
The Shaykh : Without a doubt, first, the hadith does not state that drinking from what the cat drank is evil. All the hadith does is draw the attention of this actor, this drinker, who is standing; that you are doing something that if the cat, whose saliva is not impure, were sharing it with you, you would still dislike it. So here, the dislike is a natural psychological one, not a religiously prescribed dislike. So how would you drink while standing if you knew that the devil was drinking with you? This is a wonderful method in educating the Muslim, I mean.
The questioner : In a narration, it says: if you can, he said: vomit, if you can?
The Shaykh : No, there is no "if you can."
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