If a person vows a sheep to the awliya (close friends of Allah) and then repents, is this vowed animal lawful?
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The questioner : It is well known that slaughtering for other than Allah is not permissible in some lands, especially in the desert. An old woman or someone like that would vow, for example, that this goat or this sheep is for the awliya. This means she makes people take it so that they mount their female animals with it until they die. If you advised her that this is shirk (associating partners with Allah) and she repented to Allah, what is the ruling on the vowed animal while it is still alive? Does it become lawful again, or how is it?
The Shaykh : Yes, it becomes lawful because it has not been slaughtered yet, so it is lawful. But it is strange that when it becomes vowed to a dead person, people rush to take it.
The questioner : They are not rushing to take it...
The Shaykh : They are not rushing. The questions are over, Salim.
The Shaykh : Yes, it becomes lawful because it has not been slaughtered yet, so it is lawful. But it is strange that when it becomes vowed to a dead person, people rush to take it.
The questioner : They are not rushing to take it...
The Shaykh : They are not rushing. The questions are over, Salim.