ummhafsa
06-03-2005, 05:09 PM
As salamu alaikum wa rahmatullah
My sister-in-Islam is a recent convert, who had only a dog for a companion. When she found out, from others, that "Muslims don't keep dogs", she gave it away. Now she is very lonely, often depressed. Her age, health, medications, difficulties w/ non-Muslim adult children & Muslims in general may be factors, but she is thinking of getting the dog back.
I have already given her the answer that Allah SWT is Most Merciful, and that only one sin, the sin of associating partners with Allah, is unforgiven. I witness that she is sincere in not wanting to do anything that is haraam, as far as any human can tell about anyone else.
How much haraam will she be committing by keeping the dog? He stays in the backyard only during good weather. But in the house, he has been trained so far to stay out of her "prayer room". She asks, "what about the angels? Will they stop coming to my house? Can I keep him?"
My sister-in-Islam is a recent convert, who had only a dog for a companion. When she found out, from others, that "Muslims don't keep dogs", she gave it away. Now she is very lonely, often depressed. Her age, health, medications, difficulties w/ non-Muslim adult children & Muslims in general may be factors, but she is thinking of getting the dog back.
I have already given her the answer that Allah SWT is Most Merciful, and that only one sin, the sin of associating partners with Allah, is unforgiven. I witness that she is sincere in not wanting to do anything that is haraam, as far as any human can tell about anyone else.
How much haraam will she be committing by keeping the dog? He stays in the backyard only during good weather. But in the house, he has been trained so far to stay out of her "prayer room". She asks, "what about the angels? Will they stop coming to my house? Can I keep him?"