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અધ્યાત્મતત્ત્વાલક,
[ilovja of animals is strongly prohibited within the limits of Macca. It is also laid down in the Kuran to keep Rojab (fasts), to abstain from killing animals and from meat-eating from the beginning to the end of the pilgrimage. These injunctions strongly prove that killing of animals is strictly prohibited in the Mahomedan faith, many eni perors as Sabaktgin, Akbar and others issued edicts prohibiting slaughter of animals during the Hindu and Mussalman holidays. It is clearly laid down that souls of all creatures are alike and therefore they should be treated equally with sympathy and mercy. The venerable, Hazratali, distinctly reproves this practice, saying, “ Do not turn your belly into a burial place for birds and beasts.”
Mahomed, the great prophet of Islanı said,
“ The creation is a family; for its sustenance is from Him; therefore, the most beloved unto God is the person who doeth good unto God's family.
An adulteress was forgiven who passed by a dog at a well; and when the dog was holding out his tongue from thirst which was near killing him, the woman drew off her boot and tied it to the end of her garment and drew water for the dog and gave him to drink; and she was forgiven her sin in return for that act of kindness.
A woman was punished for a cat; which she tied, till it died of hunger; and she gave the cat nothing to eat, nor did she set it at liberty, so that it might have eaten the reptiles of the ground.
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