A man has a poultry farm, and when he learns that the chick in the egg is male, he burns it because he gains no benefit from it and it costs him a great deal?
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The questioner : May Allah reward you with good. This is the owner of a farm, O honorable Shaykh, a poultry farm. He says: I have a large number of poultry and I have incubators for the eggs.
The Shaykh : What?
The questioner : The thing that hatches the eggs is a machine.
The Shaykh : A machine, yes.
The questioner : And after a certain period of time, we know whether the chick is male or female. If it is male, we burn it immediately because we gain no benefit from it, and keeping it with us costs us a great deal. What is the ruling on that?
The Shaykh : But is the ruling that he burns it before the soul is breathed into it?
The questioner : The incubator, I think.
The Shaykh : If that is the case, there is nothing wrong with it. But if it is after the soul has been breathed into it, it is not permissible to torment the animal by burning it. Yes.
The Shaykh : What?
The questioner : The thing that hatches the eggs is a machine.
The Shaykh : A machine, yes.
The questioner : And after a certain period of time, we know whether the chick is male or female. If it is male, we burn it immediately because we gain no benefit from it, and keeping it with us costs us a great deal. What is the ruling on that?
The Shaykh : But is the ruling that he burns it before the soul is breathed into it?
The questioner : The incubator, I think.
The Shaykh : If that is the case, there is nothing wrong with it. But if it is after the soul has been breathed into it, it is not permissible to torment the animal by burning it. Yes.