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According to Islam, animals are conscious of God. According to the Quran, they praise Him, even if this praise is not expressed in human language.[1][2] Baiting animals for entertainment or gambling is prohibited.[3][4] It is forbidden to kill any animal except for food or to prevent it from harming people.
The Quran explicitly allows the consumption of the meat of certain halal (lawful) animals.[2][5] Although some Sufis have practised vegetarianism, there has been no serious discourse on the possibility of interpretations of scripture that require vegetarianism.[2] Certain animals can be eaten under the condition that they are slaughtered in a specified way.[6]
- ^ See Quran 17:44
- ^ a b c "Islam, Animals, and Vegetarianism" in the Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature (Bron Taylor (chief ed.), Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd., 2008).
- ^ Al-Adab al-Mufrad, Book 1, Hadith 1232
- ^ Susan J. Armstrong; Richard G. Botzler (2003). The Animal Ethics Reader. Routledge (UK) Press. pp. 235–237. ISBN 0415275881.
- ^ See Quran 5:1
- ^ Javed Ahmad Ghamidi (2001): The Dietary Laws Archived 2 May 2007 at the Wayback Machine