Is it permissible to kill the snakes in the farms?
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The questioner : Regarding the topic of killing snakes, one is driving his car.
The Shaykh : How?
The questioner : One is driving his car on the farm roads, especially the unpaved ones, and he sees a snake; involuntarily he speeds up to run it over, then he goes back and runs over it two or three times until it dies. Killing snakes in these cases, where they are farm snakes... is this part of the command to kill snakes?
The Shaykh : No, the command to kill snakes is in houses, after warning them.
The questioner : But if he sees them outside, he does not kill them?
The Shaykh : No; the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was in Mina during the Farewell Pilgrimage, so a snake came out to them and fled, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) said:.
The questioner : ... that is the Sunnah, they killed a snake... .
Another questioner : But what if someone says, Shaykh: perhaps it will come out to someone else and bite him or something like that.
The questioner : Professor, what is its ruling... and he is in a state of ihram...?
The Shaykh : It is not permissible. The snake is among the five things whose killing is permissible for the one in a state of ihram and for the one who is in the Haram. So in Muzdalifah, in Muzdalifah, as I think, it is not part of the Haram, but the person is in a state of ihram; so it is not permissible to kill it.
The questioner : There is no blood money or sacrifice for it... .
The Shaykh : How?
The questioner : There is no sacrifice for it?
The Shaykh: No.
The questioner : It is killed in the state of ihram and in the Haram, Shaykh, is that not so?
The Shaykh : How?
The questioner : It is killed, meaning?
The Shaykh : It is killed, but it is killed out of necessity.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : We did not say that in the house it is killed after warning, but a snake in the wilderness.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : But if its evil is feared, it is killed.
The questioner : But... without... .
The Shaykh : How? Ah.
The questioner : ... without... .
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : But he needs to hold something to hit it with.
The Shaykh: Of course... .
The Shaykh : How?
The questioner : One is driving his car on the farm roads, especially the unpaved ones, and he sees a snake; involuntarily he speeds up to run it over, then he goes back and runs over it two or three times until it dies. Killing snakes in these cases, where they are farm snakes... is this part of the command to kill snakes?
The Shaykh : No, the command to kill snakes is in houses, after warning them.
The questioner : But if he sees them outside, he does not kill them?
The Shaykh : No; the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was in Mina during the Farewell Pilgrimage, so a snake came out to them and fled, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
You have been protected from its evil, and it has been protected from your evil
كُفِيتم شرها وكُفِيَت شركمThe questioner : ... that is the Sunnah, they killed a snake... .
Another questioner : But what if someone says, Shaykh: perhaps it will come out to someone else and bite him or something like that.
The questioner : Professor, what is its ruling... and he is in a state of ihram...?
The Shaykh : It is not permissible. The snake is among the five things whose killing is permissible for the one in a state of ihram and for the one who is in the Haram. So in Muzdalifah, in Muzdalifah, as I think, it is not part of the Haram, but the person is in a state of ihram; so it is not permissible to kill it.
The questioner : There is no blood money or sacrifice for it... .
The Shaykh : How?
The questioner : There is no sacrifice for it?
The Shaykh: No.
The questioner : It is killed in the state of ihram and in the Haram, Shaykh, is that not so?
The Shaykh : How?
The questioner : It is killed, meaning?
The Shaykh : It is killed, but it is killed out of necessity.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : We did not say that in the house it is killed after warning, but a snake in the wilderness.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : But if its evil is feared, it is killed.
The questioner : But... without... .
The Shaykh : How? Ah.
The questioner : ... without... .
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : But he needs to hold something to hit it with.
The Shaykh: Of course... .
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